Have you seen our Trustworthy Elections Report?
According to our newly released report, conservatives and liberals agree on how to restore trust in our elections, .
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According to our newly released report, conservatives and liberals agree on how to restore trust in our elections, .
Can Black history be both Black and American history at the same time? Can it unite us in understanding rather than divide us through politics?
Black History Month and the politics of race and education Read More »
Our 2024 National Convention, taking place in Kenosha, WI this June 27-29, will be a launching pad for better, more hopeful politics. We’re going to Kenosha to create hope – American Hope – and we need your help.
Braver Angels is not just an organization, it is a mission driven community. It is generally bound by both a love of country and an essential goodwill towards the people of this country (whether they are people we agree with or not). As such, Braver Angels has a creed. That creed is illustrated in what we call the Braver Angels Way.
We invite you to consider taking a leap of courage to attend more Braver Angels events this year, and train as an organizer, moderator, or debate chair. You might just reconcile relationships with loved ones, make new friends in unexpected places, and find the joy you are looking for in the year ahead.
At Braver Angels we seek to provide a haven for discourse on this issue as with so many others. As a part of this I invite you to join our upcoming national debate on immigration featuring Braver Angels members and leaders from across the country.
Our nation may be on the brink of the most dangerously divisive election since the Civil War, and it doesn’t have to be this way. Everyday Americans can create a visible alternative to toxic politics, and that’s what we’ll be doing together in Kenosha this summer.
“The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community,” a society in which we have confronted our shortcomings, reckoned with truth, and have made peace with one another. That process is a painful one. But let its goal be the reconciled America that Martin Luther King Jr. hoped for, and a culture of redemption available to all.
In December, we asked you to share the impact Braver Angels had on your year. Here are a few highlights, including some impacts that go way beyond politics…
When we truly see each other as human beings politics is no barrier to friendship…especially when all we are focused on is the dignity of the man or woman before us.
We want to hear from you: What impact did Braver Angels have on your year?
In the words of John Cleese, “A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.”
There’s an old Arab proverb: “He who strikes the second blow starts the fight.”
As the leader of the Braver Angels Evaluation Team, I’m excited to say that the numbers are in, and we can report that our workshops are proven to help depolarize Americans.
We talk a lot about how we talk to other people around the holidays. Today, I want to talk about how we listen… to ourselves.
How can you handle being ‘triggered’ over the holidays? Read More »
This summer, in the wake of the 2023 Braver Angels Convention, we launched the Rise for America campaign, an initiative to encourage Americans to take action against political polarization in our country and grow our movement.
1,700 volunteers in all 50 states rose for America Read More »
The 2024 Braver Angels National Convention will take place June 27 – 29 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Following the Braver Angels Way doesn’t only count when we’re in a workshop, at a debate, or attending an alliance meeting. It matters in everything we do. So when we decided to redesign our website, we knew we needed a well-balanced team of Reds, Blues, and Others to work on it together.
Rise For America is coming to an end, with more than 1,400 actions committed! And now, we need to know: Did you participate in Rise For America? You might have without even realizing it!
Building strong community across difference is a pursuit that nourishes my soul.
At Braver Angels we decided to compromise in a way that, in some respects, was similar to what Chris Anderson chose to do at TED.
On TED, Braver Angels and the near “cancellation” of Coleman Hughes Read More »
We’re almost in the final month of the Rise For America campaign, and we have nearly 1,200 actions committed! It’s not too late to get involved — and there’s a fun and easy way to jump in and make a difference.
Civility isn’t just a desire to find common ground, or to bury our differences and sing “kumbaya” with people who disagree with us. It’s not a desire for ideological unity, a jettisoning of our core convictions, or a refusal to engage in healthy conflict.
Our experience as a country reminds us that we are capable of overcoming the mightiest of obstacles. But whatever your politics, we cannot do it by sinking ever further into the culture of dishonesty and demonization that got us here.
Trump’s arrest and the 60th anniversary of the I Have a Dream speech Read More »
There’s a big divide in America, and it’s not often talked about. It’s not the divide between Democrats and Republicans, or between white Americans and black Americans. It’s the divide between the haves and the have-nots. Anthony’s song speaks to the millions of Americans who feel unheard by a perceived authoritarian class they feel is more interested in serving themselves than their constituents.
If you’ve been to one of our debates, you’ll know they’re unlike any other. They’re not a competition, but a collective search for truth.
“I attended parts of the convention and was struck by two things at once,” Farah Stockman, a member of The New York Times editorial board, wrote. “The positive energy that both Gangstagrass and Braver Angels give off—and how much it runs against the grain of what’s trending in the rest of America.”
Our movement was just featured in The New York Times Read More »
At Braver Angels we, and our allies, are building a movement. It is a movement for reconciliation and goodwill in America that responds to the civic ailments and the cancer of animosity that has spread across our land.
If I’ve learned anything working with elected officials to bridge our toughest divides, it’s that they are just as tired of the toxicity as we are, if not more. And that no matter how powerful they seem, they can’t change the game on their own. They need us to stand up and say we’re with them.