Make America Debate Again! #OpenTheDebates to all ballot-qualified candidates! #MADA

Since 2012, a small group of citizens across the political spectrum who felt marginalized by exclusionary debates has been using social media to challenge the duopoly control of these important public interest forums. We each had petitions on Change.org that were gaining traction, but we decided to pool together our efforts to create a unified, nonpartisan voice, and have been coordinating ever since as Open the Debates.

We now have nearly 10,000 email addresses, 2,000 Facebook likes, and over 3,000 Twitter followers, and we haven’t spent a dime. Our Change.org petition to the Commission on Presidential Debates to open up the 2020 debates has received over 20,000 signatures.

We are confident that with the right organizing, we can grow that support to over 100,000 in 2019 and one million strong in 2020—becoming a force that can no longer be ignored.

Now we are taking the fight for open debates to the next level. We’ll be focusing on the small handful of statewide races in 2019 to test out our strategies and build momentum for 2020 with some local breakthroughs.

We need your support to help turn the tide, and we want you to look good while doing it!