Eight identical 60-minute Roundtables run across the week — mornings, afternoons, and evenings across U.S. time zones — so you can join whichever session fits your life. Register for one. In small groups of 4–6, you'll watch a short introductory video, then talk directly with people from different backgrounds, regions, and political perspectives — people who may have voted very differently from you two weeks earlier — about the country you'd like to live in, and what it would take to build it.

This isn't a debate about candidates, parties, or the results. It's an act of shared imagination, with a practical purpose: these conversations are the public kick-off of the Nationwide Deliberation Campaign — a nonpartisan campaign to bring millions of Americans into structured deliberation in order to produce a People's Proposal for renewing American democracy, sourced directly from the people.

• Our democracy would… make it easy to get the help you need from the government the first time you ask.
• Our economy would… work just as well for a family in rural Mississippi as it does for someone living in San Francisco.
• Businesses and finance would… make it possible to start and grow a business without already having wealth or the right connections.
• Communities would… decide what gets built in their own neighborhoods.
• People would… be able to meet their basic needs and live with dignity.

These are only examples. We invite every participant to add their own.

What you'll do

Watch

A short video from Renew American Democracy on why this post-election moment — in the 250th anniversary year of our founding — is the moment to stop asking who won and start asking what comes next.

Imagine

Describe, in your own words, what everyday life would look like in a transformed system.

Listen

Hear how people from the left, right, and center and from cities, suburbs, small towns, and rural America picture that same future, two weeks after voting differently.

 

Build

Say what it would take to get there: what would have to change, and who should decide.

Be heard

Everything you say is anonymized and analyzed for national reports that will be published in December — the first citizen-voice evidence of the Nationwide Deliberation Campaign, which launches coast to coast in January 2027. You'll be invited to stay in the campaign as it grows.

Why it matters

Two hundred fifty years after the words "We the People" were written, the promise behind them remains unfinished. Roughly 100 million Americans live below the poverty line, in every kind of community and from every background. Fewer than one in five Americans trust the federal government to do what is right. And our system struggles to change itself: in 2024, 87 percent of U.S. House races were effectively decided in primaries by about 7 percent of eligible voters, and the Constitution has been amended only once since 1971. Elections change who holds power. They rarely change how the system works — fixes are won and unwon as power changes hands in a toxic cycle with no endgame in sight.

Yet Americans have plenty of common ground: researchers have identified more than 200 policy positions supported by 60 to 80 percent of Americans across party lines. Most Americans have no idea that agreement exists — because we've never been given a structured way to discover it together.

Americans have renewed our social contract before — at the Revolution, after the Civil War, and again in the twentieth century, when women gained the right to vote and the civil rights movement achieved the Voting Rights Act. The work of our generation is a Fourth Founding: transforming the system with all the people, for all the people. "With all the people" means the process belongs to everyone — not to one party, one faction, or one class of insiders. "For all the people" means the result delivers for everyone — and endures. It begins the same way every renewal has begun: with ordinary people describing the country they want, in their own words, and agreeing on how we should decide together. That beginning is this week.

The election decided who governs. What comes next is up to all of us.

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