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Danielle Allen
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Scholar focused on democracy renovation + democracy advocate. Harvard. Partners In Democracy. Coalition for Healthy Democracy. FairVote. Author of Our Declaration, Justice by Means of Democracy, Radical Duke. Write at https://therenovator.substack.com/
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chriskuang.com
Good recommendation by @dsallentess.bsky.social to invest in repairing democratic systems and institutions alongside campaign donations: open.substack.com/pub/therenov...
Democracy Philanthropy
Let's shift some of our investment to the long-term work of Democracy Renovation
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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healthydemocracyma.bsky.social
"The ballot question is quickly drawing fire from leaders of both major parties."

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Wonder why that might be? The All-Party Primary doesn’t favor Democrats, Republicans, or any other party—it favors **voters and accountability**
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/15/m...
‘Democracy is on the ballot’: Bids to open same-day registration, end party primaries could reshape Mass. elections - The Boston Globe
A pair of initiatives barreling toward the 2026 ballot could give voters a direct say in upending tenets of the state’s electoral system.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
dsallentess.bsky.social
There are so many exciting lessons in last week’s mayoral election in New York. Here are a few more: therenovator.substack.com/p/new-york-j...
New York Just Ran the Election the Rest of America Needs
Real Choice, Real Turnout, Real Legitimacy: Lessons from New York’s De Facto All-Party Primary
therenovator.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
dsallentess.bsky.social
Thank you. I just finished reviewing the copy edits so we’re getting close!
b-blue-1.bsky.social @b-blue-1 @b-blue-1.bsky.social · Oct 29
@dsallentess.bsky.social I just read your recent piece in the Atlantic about the Duke of Richmond and Thomas Paine. It was incredibly interesting. I’m looking forward to the book next year.
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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glenweyl.bsky.social
Delighted to be part of this key project to empower user agency, open source and prosocial ranking into social feeds. Thank you to @noupside.bsky.social and @jonathanstray.bsky.social for their leadership!
audreyt.org ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · Oct 23
Caterpillars aren't forever earthbound. One day they metamorphose & take to the skies.🦋

GreenEarth Social is replicating the process in building advanced open source algorithms for social media.🏗️

Read on & help realise this big vision.🌌

▶️ greenearthsocial.substack.com/p/introducin...

#LLAP🖖
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
dsallentess.bsky.social
I am profoundly grateful to my friends on the progressive left for their dedicated advocacy for policies that will make a difference for working people. But I must respectfully dissent with Jonathan's view below. ... I'm going to plant my flag for all those who want to put democracy first.
I am profoundly grateful to my friends on the progressive left for their dedicated advocacy for policies that will make a difference for working people like rent stabilization, good jobs, and criminal justice reform. I have to respectfully disagree, though, with their analysis of the likely effects of ending separate party primaries for state and federal office in Massachusetts and using a single all-party primary instead, with the top two finishers going on to the general election. Massachusetts is not California. Our campaign finance rules are completely different and far more limiting and our population is much smaller. This fundamentally changes how money operates in our political system. Our politics will remain anchored in the grass-roots. I have to concede that campaigning to the whole electorate instead of to party insiders is a bigger job and harder work, but I'm going to plant my flag for all those who want to put democracy first. Democracy takes work. It takes the work of answering to the whole electorate. Answering to the whole electorate is what will give us an open, fair, and accountable political system. I have confidence that the goals my progressive friends are pursuing, like rent stabilization, good jobs, and criminal justice reform, are broadly appealing to the people of Massachusetts and across the vast number of districts in Massachusetts and that their candidates will continue to do well under an all-party primary system. I am also confident that their agenda will get a fuller public airing under an all-party primary system. So with a lot of love and respect, I have to dissent. I am planting my flag for the Democracy First movement and invite anyone who wants to join me in doing that to sign up at coalitionforhealthydemocracy.org. Love, Danielle
October 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
dsallentess.bsky.social
Hi Friends, I joined bluesky when it first rolled out but haven't been active. Starting over now! I'm looking forward to the conversation. --D
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM