Democracy Summer

The Democracy Summer project seeks to bring about political change in America by training and deploying the next generation of Democratic organizers and leaders to win elections at every level. This one-of-a-kind Democratic Fellowship—founded by Congressman Jamie Raskin but now undertaken across the country—teaches high school and college students state-of-the-art tactics in voter registration and political organizing, the dynamic history of political and social change in our country, and essential lessons for political leadership. Democracy Summer expanded nationally for the first time in 2021 in an historic partnership with the DCCC and campaigns of Democratic Members—and in the 2022 election cycle, we recruited more than 1,000 Democracy Summer Fellows across 65 partner campaigns to participate in a full-blown pro-democracy, pro-voting rights curriculum on the history of movements for social change and all the state-of-the-art techniques for Democratic political organizing today.