Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea

By Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

From leading organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor comes an exploration of the past, present, and future of solidarity. From Ancient Rome to Black Lives Matter, solidarity across identity and class has the power to fundamentally change the world.

We must ask ourselves, “How can we build solidarity in an era of staggering inequality, polarization, violence, and ecological catastrophe?”

Through their examination of how solidarity has shaped the modern era, we come away learning more about how to build, sustain, cultivate, and institutionalize solidarity so we can build the future we so desperately need.

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The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and The Struggle for a New American Politics

By Joshua Green

From #1 New York Times Bestselling author Joshua Green comes a look inside the progressive uprising within the Democratic Party led by national icons Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

For years post-Reagan, Democrats allowed Wall Street and Big Tech to write policy priorities in exchange for campaign contributions. After the 2008 crisis, income inequality exploded and the Democratic Party came to be defined by the ideological battles between its centrists and its progressives. Telling the political history of Warren, Sanders, and Ocasio-Cortez in the defining political battle of our time, Green explores where the Democrats go from here, “in the face of the most violently deranged political landscape since the Civil War”.

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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By Austin Frerick

Austin Frerick (a former PCCC champion in Iowa!) writes the personal and political history of American agricultural consolidation. Meet the tycoons and titans that built their wealth by hollowing out the American food economy. From deregulation to blatant corruption, Frerick explores how monopolies have damaged our farms, rural communities, and democracy.

Frerick also shows us how a different future is possible, one with a thriving food industry that benefits people and the planet.

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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By Heather McGhee

Heather McGhee's New York Times BESTSELLER offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone--not just for people of color. Racism is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems and the core dysfunction of our democracy.

The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.

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Filibustered! How to Fix the Broken Senate and Save America

By Senator Jeff Merkley and Mike Zamore

From Senator Jeff Merkley and his longtime chief of staff Mike Zamore comes the insider’s guide to how the Senate became paralyzed by the filibuster.

The abuse of a fifty-year-old reform has turned the Senate from a deliberative and open body into the dysfunctional and secretive place America is forced to watch very popular (and progressive) legislation go to die. This book tells the story from the first filibuster of 1841 to Mitch McConnell’s transformation of the Senate into a tool for Republican gridlock.

“If we want to fix what ails America, we have to fix the Senate. And if we want to fix the Senate, we must fix the broken filibuster.”

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The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy

By Natalie Foster

Natalie Foster has had a front-row seat to the dramatic leaps forward in government guarantees over the past decade, from student debt relief to the child tax credit expansion. Her brilliantly sketched vision for a new Guarantee Framework suggests that an America where housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and an income floor for everyone are all but guaranteed, by our government, is possible – if we are ready to sieze that future.

The Guarantee is the rare book that will shift the terms of debate, moving us from the expired and defunct assumptions of no-guardrails capitalism to a nation that works for all of its people.

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