Assemble America
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It’s time to save America. Democracy by Assembly is the way. We're putting everyday people in charge through Citizen Assemblies. Join the movement for #DxA www.assembleamerica.org
The biggest thing missing from conversations about Democracy is the concept of deliberation. Democracy doesn't truly exist without mechanisms to thoughtfully deliberate. One of the things that makes sortition such a valuable tool is it allows for deliberation with large populations.
“we should establish judicial review by sortition. A Supreme Court empaneled with a random draw from the entire federal judiciary. A jury of judges.” @justinbriley.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
Break Up the Big Court
The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.
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I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
it is honestly remarkable how the average Senator is, I would argue, about 10 percent worse than if you literally selected them by lottery.
Terry Bouricius has a new book out, Democracy Without Politicians. Listen to him explain why sortition--random selection of representatives--is actually democratic, not electing politicians. youtu.be/5ysFjMDouYs?...
Hoping to Fix Elections is a Dead End: Sortition is the Real Fix
YouTube video by Sortition USA
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'If we actually want a democracy that reflects the thoughts of the country as a whole and delivers for everyone, we need to stop designing institutions around the “natural leaders.”' #democracy #citizenassemblies #sortition www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/o...
Opinion | No Shy Person Left Behind
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Great to see our friend Terry Bouricius make the case for sortition in Jacobin. #sortition #democracy jacobin.com/2025/12/sort...
Sortition Can Help Cure What Ails Our Democracy
Americans are frustrated with our increasingly oligarchic political system. Selecting an assortment of lawmaking deliberative bodies through random lotteries could help fix it, by empowering ordinary ...
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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
What is Democracy?
Sortition is fundamental
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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...
Trust in the Demos Isn’t Naive — It’s Empirical
Democratic deliberation asks us to meet as moral equals, exchange reasons for our beliefs, consider evidence, and remain open to changing our minds. Evidence from real-world examples shows that it can...
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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...
[U]SA Ep. 2: Nick Coccoma from Assemble America (Part 1.)
I interview Nick Coccoma, founder and Executive Director of Assemble America
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🧵 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
Sortition, Parties and Political Careerism
Are democracies producing a political class of careerists? If so, would parties choosing candidates from their membership by lottery help?
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CALL FOR PAPERS 🔖 The Journal of Sortition is open to submissions! The journal welcomes contributions from all sides of the debate – including sceptical voices. Head over to our website: 🔗https://www.imprint.co.uk/product/jos/
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
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…
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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...
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...
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"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...
The People's Convention
It's Time to Upgrade the Constitution
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Have you got your copy of the 'Politics of Random Selection: Making Good Use of Sortition'? Buy it on our website today! 🔗 www.imprint.co.uk/product/rand... Make sure to also subscribe to the Journal of Sortition, and get the first issue free! 📝 🔗Subscribe here: www.imprint.co.uk/product/jos/
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/...
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.
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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...
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
How Randomly Selected Citizens Can Fix Government's Hazy Vision
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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...
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.
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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...
Terry Bouricius on Democracy
The Theory and Practice of Sortition
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