What is the Bus Project?

The Bus is an innovative vehicle for hands-on democracy.
We drive votes.
We drive leaders.
We drive change.

(And yes, we have a bus.)

We’re not mass transit, but we’re in favor of that sort of thing. We’re about people-powered politics. We’re building a movement. Not left, not right, but forward.

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Do a Day for Democracy.

Days for Democracy is the name of the Bus Project’s volunteer effort — a statewide drive to rassle a whole mess of democracy superstars like yourself. Go ahead, Get on the Bus!

PolitiCorps Fellows featured in the New York Times

[New York Times, July 13, 2008] Three of the Bus Project’s PolitiCorps Fellows were featured in the Sunday New York Times. “Nate Gulley, 23, who grew up in Cleveland and is here as a Politicorps fellow, said too much was being made of Mr. Obama’s every move. “It’s important not to get swept up in ‘Is Obama posturing?’ ” Mr. Gulley said. “It’s self-evident that he’s a different kind of candidate.”

// Read the Full Article in the NYT

Closing the Youth Voter Gap

[Oregonian, May 20, 2008] In 2004, a whopping 28 percent more older voters cast ballots in Oregon that year than did younger ones. Oregon needs a plan for engaging its young citizens as voters, as volunteers, as board members and candidates for elected office. Nothing less than the future of the state is riding on it. The political engagement of this “millennial generation” cannot begin and end with a frenzied presidential contest.

// Read the Full Op-Ed in the Oregonian

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