Gonna further wager that if you used lotteries to pick everyday people from around the world to populate the UN, and made them equals inside the chamber, they’d resolve most global conflicts peacefully. #Sortition #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #Democracy

Gonna go out on a limb here: an assembly of everyday American citizens—picked by lottery, given the actual evidence and full range of options, and time to deliberate toward rough consensus—would not have decided to start a war with Iran. #Sortition #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA

7/7 Same principle as Free Our Feeds: distribute power, prevent capture, serve the people. Time to assemble. #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention #CitizensAssembly #FreeOurFeeds

How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Rebuild the House of American Democracy—Before It’s Demolished The house of the American republic is tottering. Once unthinkable, it’s now undeniable that our shared home has deteriorated the same way you go broke: gradually, then suddenly. At the time it was bui...

Our Executive Director, @nickcoccoma.bsky.social, has a new article out in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social with Roshan Bliss of @ncdd.bsky.social on how citizen assemblies can help rewrite the Constitution.

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Ian Troesoyer on why it's time to upgrade the Constitution.

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The People's Convention It's Time to Upgrade the Constitution

"When fundamental changes to a government are needed, who should get to make them? Elites and politicians who benefit from keeping things as they are? Or We the People?"

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The Case for Abolishing Elections - Boston Review They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

Only one way for America to get a real democracy now.

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The Case for Abolishing Elections - Boston Review They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

There's one way for the American people to end that tour and get a real democracy: sortition.

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The Case for Abolishing Elections - Boston Review They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

Whether Trump is successful or not, the American system--with the exception of the jury--is not a democracy. But there is a way it could be: sortition.

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Incisive post from @paul-melman.bsky.social: "Only by systematically building up our civilizational coordination capacity can we achieve the solarpunk yogurt commercial utopia we dream of." Amen!

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If My AGI Timeline Is So Short, Why Am I Working on Sortition? I was at a political networking event recently and as is typical for the kind of scene that I hang out in, the conversation eventually turned to AGI timelines.

Assemble America's @paul-melman.bsky.social is back at it this week with a shrewd post on the implications of AGI for democracy by assembly.

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Fascinating new post from @paul-melman.bsky.social about the way citizen assemblies can help government "see" reality better.

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees How Randomly Selected Citizens Can Fix Government's Hazy Vision

"Sortition does not merely offer a more demographically representative body," writes our team member, Paul.
"It provides a superior epistemic engine."

Read all of his enlightening new piece!

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Terry Bouricius on Democracy The Theory and Practice of Sortition

Terry Bouricius is one of most visionary thinkers on democracy. On this podcast episode, he explains how he discovered citizen assemblies and why he now considers himself a "recovering politician." Check it out!

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America needs to build a new house of our republic. Athenian democracy shows us how to do it.

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Why Greece Was Great And How America Could Be Too

How do we build a new house for American democracy? The blueprint was laid 2,500 years ago.

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Sortition: a whole new spin on gig work.

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🔥TOXIC TRIBALISM🔥

Partisan politics turn neighbors into enemies:

• Family dinners ruined by arguments

• Communities divided by signs

• Issues reduced to slogans

Citizen Assemblies bring Americans together to listen

Imagine politics that heals, not hurts

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Brooks calls for a new long-term vision. Assemble America has one: Democracy by Assembly, where everyday people are chosen by lottery to serve.

Politicians posture. Citizens Assemble. AssembleAmerica.org

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Politicians posture. Citizens assemble.

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Escape the Matrix. Enter the Assembly.

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Time for a new house. Time for a real democracy.

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But this is still OUR house. Through Citizen Assemblies, we can remodel and rebuild it, room by room, brick by brick.

It's time for a People's Constitutional Convention—where citizens, not politicians, redesign our democratic architecture.

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Democracy IS efficient. Politicians are not. Conclusion: Bypass politicians. Democracy by Assembly. www.AssembleAmerica.org

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Bypass politicians. Democracy by Assembly. www.AssembleAmerica.org

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Bypass politicians. Democracy by Assembly. AssembleAmerica.org

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This is what democracy actually looks like.

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The process is simple but powerful:
Lotteries select participants who truly represent the community → Information builds understanding → Deliberation finds common ground

Join us as we build toward a People's Constitutional Convention!

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Bypass politicians. Democracy by Assembly.

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