RT Projects
Here’s more detail on the projects we’re considering.
 Reframe Campaign (rise above “false choices”)
-Jobs v. Taxes
-Jobs vs. Environment
-Spirituality/Religion vs. Progressive Values
County Lej voting scorecard
Scorecard allowing readers to quickly and easily see how their county lej rep or other reps voted on key issues.
Electoral Analysis - number crunching, etc.
Wonky analysis & maps about local area races.
Preparing issue field for prog candidates and elected officials
Supporting and promoting issues that local prog candidates and electeds are running on.
Promote ways of people talking to people
How do we get the word out about progressive values, movements, and candidates, person-to-person? How do we do it better? How do we motivate ourselves and others to start, then follow up on those conversations?
Issue/campaign “commercials”
Create short internet based movies on progressive issues or campaigns.
Simple diagrams showing how govt works (e.g. taxes)
Create simple diagrams or flash animations (if someone steps up to show us how) that make it clear to people how gov’t works or where their taxes go.
Candidate/Elected people interviews
Interview local progressive candidates and elected officials. What do they do, what do they think is important, where do they think we should go? And other questions our readers bring up.
6 Degrees Of Politics - user selects issue, we show how govt affects it
Create a website that shows a user why they should give a crap about government. They start by selecting an issue important to them (say, “property taxes”), and we show, step by step, how it’s affected by things like tax cuts for the wealthy.
Reporting on City Council/County Lej Meetings
What the heck goes on at these meetings? Who’s involved? Why should we care?
[...] Now that the election’s over, we’re in the process of re-tooling and re-focusing RT. Our underlying goals and mission won’t change– we’re here to help promote progressive politics, movements, and values. But there’s lots of fun things we can do to promote them, and we’d like help from you to prioritize what we do. If you take a look at the poll in the right hand column, you’ll see a list of projects we have in mind. Vote on the one you think we should work on first. You can see detailed descriptions of these projects here. There’s a couple things we’ll definitely be doing: [...]