About Us

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I have been active in politics my entire adult life. From protests agains the Vietnam War to the Women's March in January of 2017 to the NO KINGS Marches of today, I have raised my voice, along with many others, to express my views. I have helped get out the vote in many elections and contributed financially to many liberal causes. In short, nothing all that unusual.

Donald Trump coming down that escalator to announce his first run for the White House sparked a different kind of activism. I learned how to create video ads using iMovie which I posted to Youtube. I later began creating documentaries, one of which will be premiered March 1, 2026. It is called My MAGA. You will find it on this website, along with a number of my other videos.

Following the Democrats' loss to Donald Trump in November of 2024 along with across the board losses in Congress, I felt - as did many others (including disaffected Republicans) - "there is something fundamentally wrong here." Donald Trump and his enablers were totally beatable and yet we lost. Again. 

What is our problem? What can we do differently?  These are the questions that led me to the idea of creating Reinvent Blue, an online community for reinventing the Democratic Party. Let's do something together, in a public space where party professionals can mingle with every day folks who have good ideas. Let's find new solutions to our most vexing problems and search for ways to communicate our ideas effectively to the voting public. 

The people who voted for Donald Trump are not stupid. (And these same people were not stupid when they voted for Obama.) MAGA is not popular. We have to take responsibility for our losses, not blame it on "stupid people' and "racists." It is us, the Democrats who have failed to innovate, failed to communicate in language that most people can relate to. 

People who used to vote for Democrats feel that the party has failed them and their families. They feel that the party has been talking down to them. If we are to move forward, we need to be honest with ourselves and with them and admit, "yes, this is a fair and accurate conclusion." And then, we need to do something about it. Change.

Not our values, but our policies and our tone. We need to get off our high horses and become the party where people actually listen to one another and find ways to meet in the middle for the common good. For example, groups like the Common Ground Network for Life and Choice in the 1990s brought pro-life and pro-choice activists together to work toward shared practical goals.  Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who had expressed personal opposition to abortion, also publicly supported codifying legal reproductive rights protections at the federal level.  During the 2024 Republican primary, Nikki Haley repeatedly tried to differentiate her stance from more absolutist views on abortion. She opposed abortion, but supported reasonable exceptions. Charlie Baker, the former GOP Governor of Massachusetts translated a similarly nuanced point of view into executive action.

This is just one example of how we find a way to listen to one another and search for common ground. That is the First Principle of Reinvent Blue. The Second Principle I steal from Steven Jobs: 'think different." The New Deal was great in its day and for many years after. But this is 2026, not 1933. The challenges we face today and expect to face tomorrow are very different. We need to invent fresh approaches that address the social and economic factors that drove Trump's populist rise or the electorate will once again turn to simplistic, fear-based, autocratic rule.

Together, let's get ahead of that. Yes, we can do that.