How to Save Democracy, and other stories
Sara Danver (she/her)I write about how politics shapes our lives, and how we in turn can shape politics and use our democracy to fight for a more just, equitable, and joyful world. And also sometimes other stuff!
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Action Memo: Redistricting and Fair Representation
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Well, folks, unfortunately the redistricting news keeps getting worse.
In case you haven’t been following this super closely, here’s a quick recap. In early 2025, Trump demanded that Republican state...
Meditations on the Use of Power
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For a man who so perfectly exemplifies what it means to be born with a silver spoon in his mouth, it should come as no surprise that Trump’s political career was also born just a few feet from home base....
An Unfinished List of Things I Want
Discipline. To finish the pile of unfinished books sitting next to my dresser. To do yoga three days a week. To go to a museum when I need to look at things and to text friends when I want to connect with people and to walk outside when I k...
We Will Always Choose Earth. We Will Always Choose Each Other
My dear friend from childhood, Cathryn Larsen, interviewed me for her blog, The People Project, where she writes human-centered profiles of people in her life with interesting lives, and I was lucky enough to be considered one of them. She...
The Pervasive and Insidious Certainty of the Internet
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When I finally got so fed up with Twitter in October 2024 that I closed the app and haven’t opened it since, it wasn’t the trolls and the hate speech that got me. Instead, it was two tweets I saw within minutes of...
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