Two public deliberations are open right now.
Moonshot Press is civic journalism that doesn't stop at telling you what happened. It helps people make sense of the forces shaping their lives, work through hard choices together, and find real ways to take part.
The full civic hub is being built. The work itself is already underway — and you can join either of these today.
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Technology and the American Future
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Artificial intelligence is changing work, knowledge, and who gets a say in either. The Civic Curriculum is a twelve-part public learning series on what that actually means — plain language, the strongest arguments on every side, and questions built to be argued about with other people.
A new chapter every Monday through late October.
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The Head Start Citizen Deliberation
Comment period open · closes October 6th, 2026
The federal government is changing the rules for Head Start, a program serving hundreds of thousands of children and families. You have the right to comment. A substantive comment has to be answered in writing.
Most people learn about a decision like this after it's made. This is the chance to be part of it before.
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Moonshot Press is organized around one civic pathway.
Understand — Reporting, Citizen Briefs, and public learning that show what is happening, why it matters, and where the evidence runs out.
Deliberate — People's Commissions that bring citizens, evidence, lived experience, and competing arguments into the same room.
Act — Practical tools and local projects that turn understanding into something you can do where you live.
The full hub — libraries, tools, and the record of what came of each inquiry — is under construction. The two deliberations above are running now.
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Democracy is not only something we inherit. It is something we learn, practise, repair, and pass forward.
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