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  • Category: American Politics
    • New Metaphor Project Strategy
    • Framing #ClimateDamage for the #ClimateHoldouts
    • Use Smart Words to Stop #NukeDoomsday
    • Say: “Move America Forward?”  
    • Springing the GOP Trap
    • Being Clear About What #TrueAmericanFreedom Means!
    • GOTV Plus: Revisiting How to frame it “American” Now
    • Framing Our Climate March Messages to Persuade: September 2018
    • How to frame it “American” Now
    • What “#(Americans)StepUp _______” Can Do Right Now
    • Say: “Stop the GOP war on America: (fill in the blanks). “  
    • How to Write Slogans That Move! (Better than “a better deal!)   
    • Say “Build a common sense American future!” 
    • Framing Our March Messages to Persuade
    • Getting Heard Beyond the Choir
    • Say: “Clean Energy Jobs Now!”
    • The Hope: Grass Roots Bipartisans at Work Right Now
    • Redeem Our Nation’s Honor!
    • U.S.A. 2019: Rebirth?
    • Two American Dreams: Poison or Power?
    • “Corporate Welfare:” Kidnapped and Brainwashed
    • Countering the GOP “Sabotage America” Campaign
    • A Watershed Metaphor for These Times
    • Framing a “Why vote?” Message
    • Stopping the Mega-Corp Coup
    • Say: “’True’ Public Safety Means Prevention!”
    • Tell the Media Again: Say “Safety,” not “Control!”
    • Counter-frame the Economy! Three Ways to Avoid Their Words
    • How to “Speak American” When You GOTV
    • Counter-frame It! How to Stop Using Their Words
    • Let’s Get Beyond Left “Groupspeak” Now!
    • Let’s All Say “Cards on the Table,” Again!
    • Speaking to America’s Broken Heart
    • Use the ‘One Big Family’ Frame!
    • American Dream or American Sword?
    • Framing “Our American Budget”
    • Countering the Right’s “American” Con
    • Let’s Reinvent America Ourselves!
    • Popping The Have’s “Credibility Bubble “
    • Framing “Fair Elections:” The Dream of America!
    • Cards on the Table!
    • Got American Breakthrough Language?
    • The “Big Business Thugs!”
    • Why ‘Speaking American’ Really Matters Now
    • American ‘Truth Bites’
    • Revisiting The One Big Family Frame
    • Sellout, Not Security
    • How To Take The Latest ‘Framing’ Buzz
    • Fighting Fire with Fire: ‘More’ & ‘Pop Speak’
    • Our ‘One Big Family’ Frame
  • Category: Environment & Sustainability
    • Reframe “climate change,” in 3 Steps!
    • Re Climate Action: Stay Tuned for an Update of this Blog Post!
    • Framing Climate Change Action Now: An Update    
    • Say “Rebate, not Dividend”
    • Framing Climate Change Action Now: Advice, Slogans, & The “Necessity” Frame
    • Say “Let’s get to climate safety fast!”
    • SOS: Framing the Climate Protection Act Now
    • Framing Climate Change Action Now
    • Reframing Climate Change Now
    • Framing Earthgate After Copenhagen
    • An 11th Hour Sequel
    • The Goal: An Ecocide-free Economy
    • Leapfrog Climate Conflict Now
    • Framing Sustainability for the American Mainstream
    • ‘Eco-Friendly Persuasion’
    • “Speaking American”, Terrain, Fall ’03
    • Eco-Workshop Examples 1997-2002
  • Category: Peace
    • How to use “#SharedSecurityWorks. #PreemptiveWarFails!” Now
    • The “One Big Family” Frame in 2015
    • National Security: Going “Up” or “Down”?
    • Re Syria: Say “We Can Do Better than Bombs!”
    • Guns, Nukes, Dollars, and the One Big Family Frame
    • Say: Cut Military ‘Corporations’ Instead
    • Re Iran: Say ‘Think Outside the Box!’
    • Framing the Right’s Nuclear Gamble
    • Framing Afghanistan as a Snare, Trap or a Trick
    • Framing Obama’s Biggest AfPak Mistake
    • Re Iran: More Cool It Citizens!
    • Re Torture: Pain Breeds Lies
    • Re The Iran Trap
    • Re Iran: The ‘Cool It’ Option
    • Wrong on Terror
    • Talking about Iraq
    • Defusing Terrorism, Not a War on Terrorism
    • America Needs Smart Game Plans, Not War
    • U.S. Moral Integrity Demands Crime Metaphor, Not War
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  • Category: Social and Economic Justice
    • Say “Americans deserve a fair market.”
    • Say: “Smart on Prison Dollars” not “Smart on Crime”
    • See our “Speaking American” TEDxVail Video on YouTube.
    • Reframing Obamacare Now
    • Say “Rules,” Not “Regulation”
    • Smart Healthcare Includes Preventive Earthcare
    • The Grass Roots Stimulus Story
    • Speaking American About Economic Justice
    • Talking Opportunity in America
    • Fair Trade Media Wedge Workshop Results
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    • Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 6/04/22
    • Metaphor Project 2019 Update and News

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