Hack On Democracy

An America for All is closer than you may think. Take part in our plan to make it so.

An image showing Civic Hacker's Hack On Democracy prototype.

We want your support to
stand up to Oppressive Systems

The Socio-Operational Environment

Otherwise known as "SOE", it represents a landscape impacting the well-being of individuals, communities, and organizations.

The "6+1" domains of SOE

The SOE combines notable enhancements to the Operational Envionment defined by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff manuals, with the Socio-ecological model of Human development. We use this paradigm to gain insights into the connections between notable events and facts related to this project. We encourage you to do your own research. Connect the dots. Share what you find.

  • Economic
  • Information
  • Infrastructure
  • Military
  • Political
  • Social

Here's how we're going to do it

Strategy #1: Lines of Effort

Together we can build a machine to improve our society

The Solution

Decentralized & concurrent Lines of Effort

By way of multiple small-scale victories, the People can exploit the critical vulnerabilities of any number of adversaries. With most people contributing one task inbetween elections, the People can realize victories in these systems:

  • Economic
  • Information
  • Infrastructure
  • Military
  • Political
  • Social

Strategy #2: Small-scale Victories

Besides helping morale, sharing your victories helps everyone.

Step 1: Understand the Operational Environment

Examine the happenings across these real-life systems: Economic, Political, Social, Information, Infrastructure, and Military. Organize your findings, share the findings.

Step 2: Develop Courses of Action

Determine the means and ways to achieve specific objectives for your cause. Pick objectives you can confidently deliver within weeks not years.

Step 3: Execute Courses of Action & Be Victorious

Deliver small-scale victories in favor of your cause. Be creative. Take risks. Celebrate the victory. Share what your actions reveal about the adversaries.

Step 4: Rinse & Repeat

In this dynamic environment, adapt to new facts and new perspectives. Take progress over perfection. In revising your base assumptions, you may find it a good time to switch up tactics.

Our chance of success is
greater than zero.

Strategy #3: Massive Self-Organizing

You bring the People, we'll bring the technology to aid these pursuits and others

Human Group 1

Lawfare: Code of the United States

Let's come up with creative ways to make our technical know-how or Work Products useful to the courts or those who go to court. Some of you are so talented that you're authorized to bring arguments to the courts or write legislation. Let the rest of us mere mortals help with research, evidence collection, and building the tech.

  • Bills of your state's legislature
  • Bills of the US Congress

Human Group 2

Threat Hunting for Constitutional Republics

Civic participation is the name of the game. Collect the events and facts that you uncover for any players involved. Some of the best facts are the one's you helped create or discover. Keeping an open mind, when looking at how facts connect within a system or across multiple systems, can offer valuable insight into how to respond.

  • Bills of your State Legislature
  • Current events
  • The Federalist Papers

Human Group 3

Social Media and the US Political System

Let's finally, build a digital platform that brings out the best in us. Social Media is a tool that can empower as well as distract and misinform. And yet, organizing online has it's uses in building bridges between communities. This effort includes seeking new ways to encourage discourse, coordination, and organizing over long distances leveraging these protocols:

  • Activity Pub (mastodon)
  • AT Proto (blsky)

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