Links/Tools
Directly relevant to our work:
*** See also the "Sources" link. ***
- Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution
- Beyond the Choir. "A forum for grassroots organizing"
- Center for Story-Based Strategy
- Frameworks Academy (Learn to FRAME - $)
- FrameWorks Institute: Changing the conversation about social problems
- Indivisible Guide. This is "a step-by-step guide for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to replicate the Tea Party’s success in getting Congress to listen to a small, vocal, dedicated group of constituents. The guide is intended to be equally useful for stiffening Democratic spines and weakening pro-Trump Republican resolve."
- Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga by Joseph J. Romm (CreateSpace, North Charleston, SC. 2012) (review) (review) (review)
- Messaging Matters
- Metaphor Project
- Tools
- See the book Moving Our Message below.
- Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 3rd Edition. George Lakoff, 2016. (description)
- Opportunity Agenda
- Why Values-Based Messaging?
- Build your own message (using the Value → Problem → Solution → Action (VPSA) structure)
- Our Story: The Hub for American Narratives
- Progressive Agenda for States & Localities
- Public Leadership Institute
- Voicing Our Values, A Message Guide for Policymakers and Advocates, 4th edition, Bernie Horn & Gloria Totten
- Blog ("IdeaLog") (Some of these blog entries are linked on this website in Articles.)
- Reich, Robert. "Story Time: The Lost Art of Democratic Narrative"
- The Republican Brain (Mother Jones article) (Buy at Amazon)
- Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision (new link)
Books List:
- "Voicing Our Values" Free download!
- "Framing Public Issues" Free download! (PDF)
- All New Don't Think of an Elephant
- "Language Intelligence"
- The Little Blue Book
- Move Our Message - MetaphorProject.org
- The Republican Brain
Supplemental to our work:
- Congressional Progressive Caucus, U.S. House of Representatives. (Updated 7/26/2021)
- Progressive Democrats of America (This is not specifically a values-oriented organization; but its multi-issue mission illustrates the commonality of issues that define "progressive values.")
- Truman National Security Project ("Training a New Generation of Progressives to Lead on National Security." The website offers training programs.)
Revised 7/26/2021