This panel brings together veteran organizers and strategists to name what’s actually broken in a political system designed to block majorities, insulate power, and make accountability structurally impossible. The crises we’re living through have a common source. For decades, organizers have won hearts, minds, and votes — only to watch those wins dissolved by the Supreme Court, buried in the Senate, or gutted by executive power grabs. This panel brings together veteran organizers and strategists to name what’s actually broken: the veto points, the malapportionment, the chokepoints that protect minority rule. They’ll discuss where the real openings for structural reform are in the next few years, what coalitions are forming around them, and what more democratic systems elsewhere have actually required to take hold.
Speakers
- Lauren Manus, Democracy Revival Center
- Kunoor Ojha, Democracy Revival Center
- Aru Shiney-Ajay, Sunrise Movement
- John-Paul Mejia, Big Country
- Kaniela Ing, Our Hawaii
- Maxwell Love, Hold the Line