Take one or more easy actions today to help bridge America's divides

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Use the Common Ground Scorecard to learn which elected officials and candidates seek bipartisan solutions to important issues that move the country forward.

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How Contempt Destroys Democracy will help you have less angry and more constructive conversations with people on the “other side” — which is one small way we can all help overcome our toxic divides.

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Filmed in rural Wisconsin and Iowa – Americans with opposing viewpoints confront their disagreements head-on, discovering the concerns and experiences that lie behind each other’s positions.

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During Love Anyway Feast dinners, participants are encouraged to be their authentic selves while we provide tools and conversation guides, all over a shared meal.

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We created a pathway for you to acquire the basic skills you need to be an effective bridge builder in your home, workplace, and community spaces. For each skill you acquire, you will earn a badge.

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Get matched with someone outside your “bubble” and follow a guided survey to explore your goals for the country.

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Ask Congress to pass the bipartisan Building Civic Bridges Act

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In this timely, personal guide, Mónica, the chief storyteller for the national cross-partisan depolarization organization Braver Angels, takes you to the real front lines of a crisis that threatens to grind America to a halt—broken conversations among confounded people.

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Concrete tips and stories about how we can stop labeling and start listening, while utilizing our diversity to repair divides.

Join a conversation - even better, host one! These organizations are bringing Americans together across lines of difference to find a way forward together.

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With over 150+ topic guides to choose from, Living Room Conversations has a discussion guide for everyone.

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Get matched with someone outside your “bubble” and follow a guided survey to explore your goals for the country.

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One Small Step brings people with different views together to record a conversation — not to debate politics — but simply to get to know each other as people.

Break outside of your echo chamber! Read news from different points of view. Take back control to form your own opinions, leaning on tools that can help you identify biases.

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Every day, Tangle tackles one big debate in American politics, then summarizes the best arguments they can find from the right, left, and center on that debate.

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Don’t be fooled by media bias and fake news. AllSides displays the day’s top news stories from the Left, Center and Right of the political spectrum — side-by-side so you can see the full picture.

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Every day, the cross-partisan team at The Flip Side combs through dozens of sources – left, right, and center. They focus on one topic and select the most thoughtful and well-articulated points to highlight in a 5-minute digest.

Choose from a range of skill-building activities to improve your abilities to lead, problem solve, and collaborate with others “outside your bubble.”

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The Depolarizing Within Online Course from Braver Angels is designed to foster skills to help you lessen the effects of polarization when you encounter them in your political conversations.

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We created a pathway for you to acquire the basic skills you need to be an effective bridge builder in your home, workplace, and community spaces. For each skill you acquire, you will earn a badge.

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During Love Anyway Feast dinners, participants are encouraged to be their authentic selves while we provide tools and conversation guides, all over a shared meal.

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Challenge yourself to break toxic polarization by completing one exercise per weekday for 4 weeks.

Tired of bickering and gridlock in our politics? As Americans, we can change this! Let’s tell candidates and incumbents that we expect them to be problem solvers, not partisan hacks. 

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In an ongoing video series, Governors are sharing the screen with officials from the opposite party – fellow Governors, mayors and more – to model Disagree Better in action.

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Endorse the Principles for Trusted Elections and ask your elected leaders to do the same

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Share the rankings and invite your friends (and frenemies) to weigh in

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Support your Future Caucus state legislators. Not in your state yet? Lobby to add a caucus.

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Ask Congress to pass the bipartisan Building Civic Bridges Act

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Use the Common Ground Scorecard to learn which elected officials and candidates seek bipartisan solutions to important issues that move the country forward.

Listen to a podcast - even better, share your favorites! Tune in for interviews, stories and insights with top leaders and special guests as they discuss some of the toughest social challenges of our times.

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Host Mónica Guzmán is joined by guests from across the political spectrum to unearth tools, insights, and messy real life stories that can guide you over the divide in your everyday life.

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Tune in as Manu Meel, national leader of bridging divides on college campuses via BridgeUSA, builds nuance and fights outrage with conversations about how we overcome our toxic politics to write the next chapter in our American story.

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Tune in as journalists Richard Davies and Ashley Milne-Tyte explore diverse solutions to today’s most urgent issues with top thought leaders, journalists and others committed to bipartisan action.

Watch a film - even better, host a watch party! These “Better Together” nonpartisan films -- all available to stream today -- exemplify how everyday Americans can find common ground despite our differences.

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A feature-length documentary examining the question of whether or not love, specifically—unselfish—love, is the solution to the extreme societal and political divide facing the world.

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At a time when toxic partisanship fueled by politicians and media erodes trust among Americans, UNDIVIDE US offers hope, using focus groups across three cities to explore polarization while uncovering the potential for healing, community, and renewed democracy.

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Filmed in rural Wisconsin and Iowa – Americans with opposing viewpoints confront their disagreements head-on, discovering the concerns and experiences that lie behind each other’s positions.

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A shooting spree, a trial, and secret conversations between pro-choice and pro-life leaders captured on cassette tapes. There's the public story and then there's the basement talks.

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In 2021, twelve strangers from across the political spectrum came together to test whether constructive dialogue is possible in today’s polarized culture, and if so, how dialogue might be the first step in healing our nation.

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In 2020 a marriage is put to the test when an interracial couple are forced to quarantine together through the Covid pandemic and 'Black Lives Matter' movement.

Read a book -  even better, start a Bridgers Book Club! Invite your friends and family to delve into a rich crop of books that explore our country’s divisions and offer promising solutions. 

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In this timely, personal guide, Mónica, the chief storyteller for the national cross-partisan depolarization organization Braver Angels, takes you to the real front lines of a crisis that threatens to grind America to a halt—broken conversations among confounded people.

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This book dives into moral psychology to explain differences in political belief, how moral judgment is formed, group behavior and more.

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Multiple stories of how people get sucked into unhealthy conflict and how to get out.

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A mixture of personal stories with research outline practices and principles for healing the division in our lives, relationships, and country.

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Concrete tips and stories about how we can stop labeling and start listening, while utilizing our diversity to repair divides.

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A deep dive into modern society, exploring how we think instead of what we think, through history, psychology, and political theory.

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Facing the Fracture offers a path out of the distress and disempowerment plaguing everyday people. Grounded This book offers readers strategies to foster resilience in the face of political polarization.

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How Contempt Destroys Democracy will help you have less angry and more constructive conversations with people on the “other side” — which is one small way we can all help overcome our toxic divides.

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The Soul of Civility empowers readers to live tolerantly with others despite deep differences, and to rigorously protest wrongs and debate issues rather than silencing disagreements.

Want to help decrease polarization in your local community? Join a local chapter of these organizations and make connections with your neighbors!

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+MPU Brickyards are local chapters of where people of all backgrounds come together and connect through events like potlucks, service opportunities, and more. + More Perfect Union aims to bring together veterans and and all service-minded individuals who see the value in coming together for conversation and community service.

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BridgeUSA is a multi-partisan student movement that champions viewpoint diversity, responsible discourse, and a solution-oriented political culture. BridgeUSA has chapters at 63 college campuses and 17 high schools across the United States.

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Braver Angels is an organization dedicated to bridging the divide between red and blue Americans by facilitating constructive conversations and fostering mutual understanding. Through its red-blue pair model, participants engage in dialogues that challenge assumptions, build empathy, and promote civil discourse across political lines.