⭐️ About
The Conscious Citizens is an independent and subscriber-supported directory, newsletter, and online global community dedicated to building collective consciousness & community power. We connect you to helpful independent education, art, tools and resources we need to put power back into the people’s hands.
We explore many issues in the West, particularly the US (as we're US-based), and the connections they have to popular movements globally. We believe that understanding and embracing the international connections between our struggles is essential to building resilient communities.
The Directory
Updated on a regular basis, the website is a highly curated collection of political education and community care directory with essential knowledge, resources, tools, organizations and more needed to reclaim our personal and collective power. All readers are given commenting access to leave feedback, thoughts, and other helpful insights for our global community to read.
The Newsletter
Every other Sunday (bi-weekly) receive our newsletter, "The Conscious Citizens Dispatch," where we thoughtfully write and curate a valuable collection of:
- Urgent & easy calls to action to take for the collective
- History left out by mainstream education
- Past organizing and protest campaigns we can learn from
- Artists addressing inequalities and imagining a new world
- Resources, tips, and strategies on how to build more resilient communities
Often we are made to feel that we have very little power to change society. While that might be true as individuals, we are genuinely unstoppable when united as a community. Politicians, billionaires, and rulers know this, which is why they enact policies and practices that scare and divide the people. The Dispatch is our way of guiding and empowering you to create a better world for all by reconnecting us to our history, imagination, community, and humanity.
To access the full dispatch archive, become a paid member for as little as $2/mo ($1 per issue / $24 yearly).
Global Discord Community
Sign up to get invited to our global community on Discord. This is how we'll keep in touch with each other in real time. We'll use this Discord as a home-base to share more knowledge, local resources, answer questions, commiserate, and connect with each other.
➕ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to get updates, shareable newsletter excerpts, and guidance on how to build a lifestyle that aligns with your values. All deeper community building will be done on our Discord channel.
Who Runs This Thing?
We are Elisa and Ray. Elisa is a creative director and designer, Ray is a production director and filmmaker, and we're co-founders of Little Wins Studio, a social-impact creative studio helping movement leaders win in the attention economy and catalyze real-world change through multimedia art and storytelling.
Over the last few years, throughout COVID and the economic downturn, our creative studio has taken a hit (like many other small businesses), challenging us to pivot. As creatives already on the internet, we took to social media to explore ways we could put our professional skills to use for public good. In 2023, we began sharing more of our political work online—leveraging our strategic and creative storytelling skills to synthesize geopolitical history, remind people of our wins, and share resources and actions to take to create positive change—and it quickly started to get attention in political, activist, and mutual aid communities. This is when we knew our ideas and approach was working. By synthesizing information in an interesting, meaningful, relevant, and digestible way while also sharing avenues for people to channel their energy into actions, people have been increasingly breaking down learning barriers and unlocking greater change.
In 2024 we went "all-in" on our ideas and launched the Conscious Citizens as a way to help others become more aware of the world around them and guide them into personal change for the collective good. Our work has since amassed millions of views across the center and left spectrum, reaching everyday people in 80+ countries around the world.
If you'd like to check us out, sign up for free, though if you can, we would love to have your support so we can sustain this project.
📣 What People are Saying About Us
Our Subscribers
“Been reading the CC since it launched. So good! Appreciate so much all the effort that goes into compiling so much information, and creating the written pieces and reels that make it easy to digest and find the connections! Gets really overwhelming when so much is happening so fast! 🙏🏼” —Patty
"The Conscious Citizens tireless efforts help me stay focused on what matters and also spread the right kind of information to anyone who will listen. Can't thank you guys enough for helping us stay sane and effective!" —Naema
"You're always breaking down the current global political sh*t show into clear, concise, and digestible info!" —Robinson
“I truly cannot recommend signing up for the CC newsletter enough, and actually reading all of it. It is transformative, transcendent, truly revolutionary, and action-oriented. it is concise, aesthetically pleasing, and optimistic.”—Cal
"Canadian here, and I have definitely been feeling depressed and hopeless; the US election gutted me. I just found your work and it's uplifting! Thank you."—July
"Your I.C.E. Defense Masterlist with all the resources in one place is very helpful!"—Pumpkin
“I’m so impressed by how well organized, presented and thought out the information is. I find myself overwhelmed easily nowadays but did not feel that way at all reading the email. Having a solid introduction, bite sized micro-actions (to get the dopamine going/ feel the little win) and then get introduced to a more thought provoking idea to look into and make a longer standing goal worked perfectly for me. I found the introduction to solidarity economies easy to understand and found all the resources to be especially helpful for diving in deeper. The presentation was gorgeous as well.” —Tea-Ni
Movement Leaders
"You guys do a such GREAT job of breaking ideas down without dumbing it down!" —David Cobb, Co-coordinator of US Solidarity Economy Network
"Love how you guys have been able to create consistent and clear radical messaging without the radical presentation; it's radical politics for the radically curious."—Butch Ware, Historian and 2024 Green VP Nominee
🤝 Help Us Build This!
We believe part of keeping the Conscious Citizens inclusive and accessible is keeping it free. By not gatekeeping or hiding knowledge, it allows others to feel a sense of collective responsibility. If more people worked freely more often (with support from a network of like-minds), we’d quickly shift into different ways of valuing ourselves and one another – production, consumption, and destruction become care, community, and liberation for all.
For this reason, paid subscriptions are completely optional and free subscribers will not miss any content. Obviously, if you can afford to upgrade, we greatly appreciate your support. The more support we can get, the more we can offer. Creating original content requires a lot of time and creative energy while accruing direct and indirect business costs. No matter how small, each contribution adds up to a huge impact. We are incredibly grateful to all the kind people who are funding our work.
If you value what we've been sharing on the Conscious Citizens, consider becoming a paid member for as little as $2/mo ($1 per Dispatch issue / $24 yearly) or grabbing us a coffee.
What Your $ is Funding:
- Part-Time Support for Ray & Elisa
- Practical Community-Building & Resistance Guides
- Conscious Citizens original YouTube videos
- Conscious Citizens Podcast
- Digital & In-Person Community Events
This project is exclusively funded by individual subscriptions. We do not receive funding from any government or organization, nor do we accept any payment for the placement of resources.
To build a better future you don't have to do everything, but you do need to do something.
