America’s Founders believed in a simple idea: Our communities should be run by the people who live in them.
The idea isn’t controversial or complicated, but it has been ignored by politicians for far too long.
Unfortunately, America stopped believing that local communities should be free to solve local problems, and started believing distant politicians could solve local problems—which made us more partisan and more divided.
In Florida, Local Voices United is fighting to restore local decision-making.
Our new video explores how America’s excessive focus on national politics drained local communities of much needed civic energy—and what we can do to return to our founding ideals.
