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In 2017, I pitched the idea of little testimonial videos of "what democracy means to me" at an early RDI board meeting. We had no operations and no budget, so hoping for virality seemed good. Now it's actually happened, and going viral, and it's awesome.
I still have the meeting notes, since I never delete anything. We thought it would be good to have people like Garry who lived (or were still living) under authoritarian regimes do it first, a "don't take democracy for granted" message. But it risked sounding preachy.
Now, when RDI actually has operations and a (small!) budget, it was the best of all worlds by having another "immigrant patriot" like Alexander Vindman lead the project. So many different videos coming in, from famous and regular folks, really great. #RenewDemocracy.
