Democracy Labs is a hub for ongoing technology and creative innovation that serves progressive campaigns and organizations at the national, state, and local levels.
Our focus is on long term, sustainable and affordable solutions. An approach that is longer than an election cycle, and isn’t purely dependant on volunteers, can enable more qualified candidates to run for office and for more issue groups to bring about positive social change.
Democracy Labs is a project of the Tides Advocacy Fund.
GIFs are images that play automatically on a web page or in a tweet. GIFs outperform videos for engagement as more people
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Communicate better on ZOOM. Keep eye contact with an on-screen teleprompter. Avoid the distraction of looking away at your notes with with an on-screen teleprompter. Online viewers are easily distracted as you look away to refer to your notes. Deliver
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Impeachment Illustrated – McConnell Edition “He’s guilty… but I’ll acquit him”. These Political Cartoons help understand how low Mitch will stoop for power. DeepakDemLabs Mitch McConnell acquits Trump (GIF) McConnell Acquits Trump (90 second
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NO PROFILES IN COURAGE. This week’s top political cartoons. The top ten Political Cartoons this week best capture the Republican hypocrisy and cowardice on display. John F. Kennedy described political bravery in his Pulitzer
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Reach more people. Caption and translate videos. Reach the one in five Americans who do not speak English and others who prefer to watch videos on mute. Add captions and translations to your videos. This
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What can you do to lower your risks? How can you sanitize public records to avoid exposure? What should you do if you are the victim of an internet crime?
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Some want to limit relief. How do you convey the details and consequences? How can this be done in a form that is easy to understand and share?
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This blog explains proposed bills, the technologies being used to organize the resistance, and the history of Jim Crow laws used to suppress Black voters.
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Want to make your vote count? Learn how to draw redistricting maps. All votes are equal. Some are just more equal than others. It all depends on how voting districts are drawn. And that’s how
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Double-talk. Denial. Stupidity. This week’s best political cartoons. This week’s top ten political cartoons lampoon Republican double-talk, denial and stupidity. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon” – Saul Alinsky “It is almost impossible to counterattack
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You’re stumped by a question on Zoom. What do you do? Use an on-screen teleprompter so an assistant can help you with the answer. You respond to the questioner without even breaking
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