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TexasTowelie

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Thu Mar 28, 2019, 12:45 PM Mar 2019

Unrig Summit: democracy movement takes flight in Nashville

Unrig Summit brings together speakers and activists from politics, entertainment, and media to solve America’s growing political crisis.


More than 2,000 unlikely allies from across the political spectrum from all 50 states are meeting at Music City Center this Friday through Sunday at what’s being called the ‘SXSW of Politics’ to ‘Unrig the System’.

Unrig Summit brings together a strange bedfellows group of speakers and activists from politics, entertainment, and media for a solutions-oriented event to solve America’s growing political crisis.

As polarization and corruption grips a hopelessly gridlocked political system, there is a beacon of hope in the states.

A movement is on the rise to transform how candidates run for office, how we vote for them, and how politicians govern while in office.

Read more: https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2019/03/27/unrig-summit-democracy-movement-takes-flight-nashville/3291954002/

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