THE HORIZONS PROJECT

While there is no one path to solving what ails our country, if we don’t chart a common direction of where we want to go, the forces dividing us will continue to prevail. The United States is at a crossroads, and there is no time to waste.

Weaving together all our efforts for a just, inclusive and peaceful democracy

What We Do

The Horizons team acts as organizers, trainers, and facilitators, strengthening connections and collective action among US pro-democracy movements and networks.

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Authoritarianism: How You Know It When You See It

What is democracy? Forms of rights-based representative government in which: elected government leadership is constrained by constitutionalism, the rule of law, the separation of powers, the free expression of the...

Big Tents and Collective Action Can Defeat Authoritarianism

In their New York Times essay, Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the United States has crossed over into a form of competitive authoritarianism, a system that may...

The Brain on Authoritarianism

The Horizons Project and Beyond Conflict partnered to create this video on 'The Brain on Authoritarianism' to support broad-based "united front" organizing in response to the rising authoritarian threat in...

Areas of Work

Harnessing our Power to End Political Violence (HOPE-PV)
Pillars of Authoritarianism
Democracy Movement Organizing

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Resources

  • Rethinking “Polarization” as the Problem
  • Authoritarianism: How You Know It When You See It
  • The Pillars of Support Project
  • Race and Democracy