The Civic Language Perceptions study explores how Americans understand and feel about key terms related to democracy, civic engagement, and equity. This research examines how factors like political ideology, age, education, and geographic location influence perceptions of terms such as "freedom," "democracy," "patriotism," and "unity."

These talking points come from the Counter Toolkit. 

This list of sources and resources will assist rabbis who wish to lead their communities in protecting and strengthening democracy. It is meant to be a living document that will be updated regularly with new links.

Protect Democracy’s toolkit offers best practices for responding to politicized government investigations so that organizations can keep doing lawful, mission-based work.

This resource provides leaders of Jewish organizations with guidance for thinking through potential threats to democracy and how their institutions can best prevent and respond to them.

This resource provides rapid communications guidance on whether and how Jewish organizations should respond to anti-democratic activity.

This quick reference guide on Crisis Communication comes from the Equip Toolkit.

This quick reference guide on Basic Principles and How To’s comes from the Counter Toolkit. 

This resource includes talking points to help Jewish organizations message effectively to preserve social cohesion in contentious times.

This webinar, held on July 11, 2024, provided tangible ideas and information to clergy interested in speaking about American democracy and the 2024 election during their High Holiday observances.

This resource includes talking points to help Jewish organizations communicate internally and externally about mis-, dis-, and malinformation meant to disrupt our elections.

Find the expert speaker you need for your next event or gathering. Everyone on this list is a member of the Democracy Communications Collaborative and takes a non-partisan approach to their work. Information on how to contact each expert is listed.

Using Over Zero's years of research into conflict resolution, this resource identifies six ways to discourage violence through intentional communication.