Jason Carter is a co-Founder of Democrats Work. He has had an active role in many aspects of politics and service. He worked as a field organizer for the Harvey Gantt for Senate campaign in 1996, helped found the Red Clay Democrats (an organization of Democratic young professionals in Atlanta), and served on the Georgia Democratic Party’s State Committee. He is the author of “Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa’s Borders,” a book about his Peace Corps service in South Africa (1998 to 2001), which was published by National Geographic Books. Among other writings is an article about Christian faith and political life that was published in the Georgia Law Review last fall. Jason’s father, Jack, was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada in 2006. His grandparents are Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. He lives in Georgia with his wife, Kate, and their son, Henry.

Blog Entries by Jason Carter

More Than a One Night Stand: Millennials Building a Meaningful Relationship with Democracy

Posted January 17, 2008 | 02:08 PM (EST)


After young people turned out in record numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire, you would think that those who regularly trash Millennials, Generation Y and others in our 20s and 30s would stop scapegoating young voters for our alleged apathy towards democratic participation.

Apparently not.

Although nearly 37 percent of...

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Coats, Cans and Community Service - Democrats Work Looks Back on a Year of a New Type of Politics

Posted December 17, 2007 | 08:28 PM (EST)


With 100 percent of the precincts and pantries reporting, Democrats Work can declare the winner of the first-ever "Coats and Cans Primary." While there was a candidate who got the most votes, the real winners were the members of the community who donated and received more than 400 coats and...

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Putting the Can in Candidate - Isn't This How Every Election Should Be?

Posted October 19, 2007 | 04:22 PM (EST)


Colorado primary voters went to the polls last weekend and the turnout was heavy.

No, this wasn't an outlandish attempt by Colorado to jump ahead of New Hampshire by holding its presidential primary in October. And the votes cast weren't even of the paper, electronic or...

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From Tear Gas to Soccer Balls -- Engaging the Community Outside the Convention Hall

Posted September 25, 2007 | 12:10 PM (EST)


In 2004, the most interesting activity at Republican National Convention wasn't inside Madison Square Garden -- it was in the streets. With protests not seen since the '68 Democratic Convention in Chicago, hundreds of thousands of activists packed into pens and crammed the streets of midtown Manhattan. More than 1,800...

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Caught in the Act - A New Politics of Leading by Example

Posted September 5, 2007 | 02:05 PM (EST)


In the midst of the media storm surrounding Larry Craig's bathroom habits and the immediate Republican response, it may have been too easy to forget that last week marked the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the Bush administration's utter failure to respond to a real disaster. The two...

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