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Gun Violence Prevention

Do This: Preventing Gun Violence

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been discussing gun violence in America. And in just that short period of time, our country has been rocked by another mass shooting at a high school and a second alleged assassination attempt on a former president. It is clear that gun...

Watch This: Preventing Gun Violence

According to research by Everytown For Gun Safety, 59% of adults in America have personally experienced gun violence, or know someone who has. Gun violence includes mass shootings, homicides, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, domestic violence, unintentional...

Read This: Preventing Gun Violence

Our hearts are breaking with the families of Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia today as they grieve in the aftermath of a tragic mass shooting. Every day, more than 120 Americans are killed with guns and more than 200 are shot and wounded.1 Yesterday, at least...

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Watch This: What Are Flock Cameras?

In last week’s Easy A, we learned that more than 6,000 communities nationwide have installed Flock surveillance cameras, even though there is no evidence that these cameras, or any automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras, help prevent or reduce crime. We all...

Read This: Get the Flock Out of Our Communities

If you’ve ever seen the movie Minority Report, you remember the dire warning the Tom Cruise sci-fi movie gave about fighting crime using high tech surveillance. But it’s not sci-fi anymore! There’s a disturbing rise in real-life surveillance that everyone needs to...

Do This: Another Step to Reclaiming Democracy

We spent America’s 250th looking forward to the future with Heather Cox Richardson, and hundreds of you made the patriotic commitment to reclaim our democracy from extremists in the 2026 midterm elections. Red Wine & Blue offers so many ways to get involved – from...

Do This: Reclaim our Democracy this July 4th

This weekend, America celebrates our 250th Independence Day. To get ready for this milestone, we took the Easy A actions of reading the Declaration of Independence together and pausing to consider the complicated meaning of July 4th for different Americans throughout...