Our very own @nickcoccoma.bsky.social joined The Democratic Constitution Blog to ask a basic question: what is democracy? (Hint: It's not elections, parties, or parliament.) #democracy #citizensassembly #sortition #constitution assemblingamerica.substack.com/cp/173659014

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Stanford’s Jim Fishkin contrasts the ills of elections with the virtues of deliberative democracy:“In a healthy democracy, politics shouldn’t just be a contest of strength between parties — it should be a battle of ideas.” #Democracy #Sortition jacobin.com/2025/07/deli...

Our own @nickcoccoma.bsky.social appeared on the [Undetermined] States of America podcast recently to discuss all things sortition. Have listen to Part I. #Democracy #Sortition #CitizensAssembly www.undetermined.us/p/usa-ep-2-n...

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

🧵 1/7 @markruffalo.bsky.social and Free Our Feeds are billionaire-proofing social media. But what about billionaire-proofing democracy itself?

"Introducing within-party sortition would break the systems that enable political careerism." Digested Read of an article by Keith Dowding, William Bosworth and Adriano Giuliani. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/sortiti... #UKpol #politics

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Citizens Assemblies could legally constrain delegates at an Article V (some say "constitutional") convention, building democratic accountability into the amending process. So incredibly happy this truth is finally breaking through. Excellent article in the Fulcrum. buff.ly/xuqihGo

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. #PeoplesConvention #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA thefulcrum.us/democracy/ar...

"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?" #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention #Sortition #Democracy #CitizensAssembly open.substack.com/pub/assembli...

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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. #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #Democracy #CitizensAssembly #Sortition #AI #AGI open.substack.com/pub/unfacts/...

Reform & trust 📊 New YouGov polling on trust commissioned by @sortitionnow shows people who voted Reform n the 2024 General Election trust citizen assembly members more, and members of parliament less, than other voter groups www.858.org.uk #HouseOfCitizens #UKPolitics

"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! #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention #Sortition #Democracy open.substack.com/pub/assembli...

Two years ago, our own @nickcoccoma.bsky.social made the case for Democracy by Assembly. DxA “would amount to a revolution,” he says. “And like all revolutions, it begins in the mind.” #CitizensAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention #Sortition www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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! #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #CitizensAssemby open.substack.com/pub/nickcocc...

How do we build a new house for American democracy? The blueprint was laid 2,500 years ago. #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention open.substack.com/pub/assembli...

Sortition: a whole new spin on gig work. #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #CitizensAssembly #PeoplesConvention

🔥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 #DemocracyByAssembly #PeoplesConvention

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Escape the Matrix. Enter the Assembly. AssembleAmerica.org #CitizensAssembly #DemocracyByAssembly #DxA #PeoplesConvention

The house of the American Republic was built for the People. Now it's crumbling: • Constitutional foundations weakened by corruption • Institutional walls eroded by extremists • Democratic roof leaking away our rights and freedom

CITIZENS' ASSEMBLIES: Democracy's upgrade From Ireland to Oregon, everyday people are solving problems politicians can't: • Ireland's Assembly broke decades of constitutional deadlock, with recommendations on marriage equality and abortion passing national referendums with 62-66% support

⚠️ DEMOCRACY WARNING ⚠️ • Congress: 80% millionaires. America: >5% millionaires. • Members spend 70% of time fundraising instead of solving problems • When donors and voters disagree on policy, donors win Who's really in charge? (Hint: Not you)

🏛️ Democracy by Assembly - America's Last, Best Hope Our democratic house was built for the people. But now it's been captured by elites and extremists. Signs of collapse are flashing red: - Money > votes - Polarization > policy - Elites > citizens - Corruption > accountability

"The appointment of magistrates by lot is democratical and the election is oligarchical." Aristotle For most of history, people knew this to be true. Athens used sortition to fill most offices. Venice used it for 500+ years. Time to bring it back. Time for #DemocracybyAssembly #DxA

1/5 Today we launch Assemble America - a movement to transform democracy by putting everyday people back in charge through Citizens Assemblies. A thread on why this matters 🧵

Spreading the word today in Idaho! #Democracy #CitizensAssemblies #DxA

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Sortition—from one Athens to another! #DxA #CitizensAssemblies

💯 #DxA is the only way!

America, Assemble! @assembleamerica.org #CitizensAssemblies #DemocracybyAssembly #DxA youtu.be/mOCFRqfChh8?...