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Pre-Launch Open Beta: We are building this platform with our community. Democracy University materials remain drafts and are open for review and feedback. Check each training or event listing for its availability, organizer, cost, and registration details.

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Training Library

Courses built from the Democracy University manual series. They are drafts: free to read and use while practitioners review them. Tell us what to fix, and we'll keep making them better.

Track
Level
Campaign Law & EthicsAll Levels

Campaign Law, Compliance & Ethics

Understand the role of law, compliance, counsel, ethics, and institutional responsibility in building lawful, legitimate, and sustainable political operations.

90 min
Campaign OperationsAll Levels

Campaign Operations & Administration

Build the operational systems that let campaign staff and volunteers do excellent work under pressure: roles, budgets, hiring, processes, workplace systems, documentation, and handoffs.

90 min
Technology & CybersecurityAll Levels

Technology & Cybersecurity

Build reliable, accessible, secure campaign infrastructure and choose technology that expands human capacity without displacing human judgment.

90 min
Data & AnalyticsAll Levels

Data & Analytics

Use voter files, data systems, analysis, testing, measurement, and judgment to ask better questions and make more accountable strategic decisions.

90 min
Fundraising & FinanceAll Levels

Fundraising & Political Finance

Build the resources required to execute the plan through strategic fundraising, donor relationships, call time, events, finance systems, and ethical political finance practices.

90 min
Communications & PersuasionAll Levels

Communications, Media & Persuasion

Move from core message to final argument through disciplined storytelling, earned media, digital communications, creative strategy, research, and persuasion.

90 min
Organizing & VolunteersAll Levels

Organizing, Volunteers & Leadership Development

Build relationships, recruit and develop volunteers, grow leaders, create durable teams, and leave behind power that lasts beyond a single campaign.

90 min
Field & TargetingAll Levels

Field, Voter Contact & Targeting

Translate a path to victory into a safe, accessible, measurable, and relationship-centered voter-contact program.

90 min
Scheduling & EventsAll Levels

Scheduling, Advance & Events

Use schedules, advance, logistics, and events to manage time intentionally, prepare people to succeed, and create meaningful public moments.

75 min
LeadershipAll Levels

Leadership

Lead people, build teams, develop new leaders, make hard decisions with integrity, and leave behind more capacity than you inherited.

90 min
Campaign StrategyAll Levels

Campaign Strategy & Planning

Build a disciplined path to victory by reading the political landscape, defining the win condition, aligning departments, allocating resources, and adapting without losing strategic focus.

90 min