Undercurrent Events
Lee Drutman, Grant Tudor, Joe WalshDeep forces are shaping our democracy. Change happens slowly. Then all at once.
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Reflections on the five most popular Undercurrent Events of 2025
I wrote a bunch of pieces in 2025. Some resonated more than others.
Below are the five most popular—the ones that went beyond the subscriber list, thanks to social sharing.
Looking back, all five capture what I’m trying to do here at Un...
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Editor’s note: The following is cross-posted with Protect Democracy’s If You Can Keep It substack. A true Thanksgiving collaboration to be grateful for!
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If you’ve been following the debates around electoral reform, you’ve probably noticed something confusing. Reform keeps spreading. But our politics keeps getting more dysfunctional.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Senior Fellow, New America // Author, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop // Co-founder, Fix Our House // podcaster, Politics in Question // lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
Grant Tudor is a policy advocate with Protect Democracy, where he develops and advocates for a range of reforms to shore up our democratic institutions.
A former Tea Party Congressman and right-wing radio host, I torched my career to challenge Donald Trump & the MAGA GOP head on. Director of The Social Contract. Co-Founder of PAXIS. Founder of HopeNotFearProject.org. Conservative Democrat.
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