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[This is the third installment in our interns’ chronicles of their adventures interviewing members of the public as well as elected officials about government and the relationships between voters and those elected to represent them. The interviews are part of our developing Participatory Democracy civic education program.]
Throughout this summer, we (Punam and Jonathan) have […]

[From time to time our blog features diverse voices in addition to our regular contributors from the TCAN staff and board. This one comes from TCAN intern Punam Kaji, a Plan II and Government major with a minor in Business at the University of Texas at Austin.]
For the past five weeks, my fellow intern Jonathan […]

[From time to time our blog features diverse voices in addition to our regular contributors from the TCAN staff and board. This one comes from TCAN intern Jonathan Panzer, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin majoring in government and history.]
Those of you who know me know that I’m a gamer at […]

“Participatory Democracy,” or civic involvement, is a major component of the True Courage Action Network’s empowerment program.
TCAN’s goal is to educate, inform, motivate, and thus empower people to make government responsive to the needs and desires of the people and concerned with the common good, rather than catering to private and special interests. TCAN does […]