Read Jacqueline Salit's "Finding Otherness: A Blueprint for an Independent Conversation about 2020"

“Ms. Salit’s blueprint is comprehensive and well-informed. A must read for anyone challenging the entrenched system.”

-- Chad Peace, Attorney for the
Independent Voter Project

“In 2016, the parties produced a choice between the two most disliked presidential candidates in history. Salit acknowledges that working to open up the general election presidential debates to more than just two candidates is key to giving the American people what they want: a more open and competitive system that produces candidates with better ideas and broader appeal. She understands in her bones the need to break up the two-party duopoly to allow an independent candidate for president to emerge.”

-- Cara McCormick, Executive Director of
Level the Playing Field

Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People, published by New Press, addresses the complex question of how to make our American democracy work to solve problems that have long impaired our system of governance. This collective work of thirty of the country’s most perceptive writers, practitioners, scientists, educators and journalists includes a chapter on the 42% of Americans who are independents. Co-authors Jackie Salit and Thom Reilly examine the power of independent voters and the pivotal role they can play in responding to the systemic failures in our political system in their chapter “Can Independent Voters Save American Democracy? Why 42 Percent of American Voters Are Independent and How They Can Transform Our Political System.” On sale now.

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From 1999 to 2019, Jackie Salit hosted a national conference call for new and veteran political activists. Two hundred independent leaders from as many as 40 states participated in each of these conference calls, making them the largest regular gathering of independent voters in the country.

You can listen to past conference calls here.