Together, with your comments and our labor, we’ve created a community to foster constructive conversation and action amongst our membership about the candidates, the issues, and the movement. We thank you for your help, but the hard work is just beginning.

This is not just a simple makeover. This is a new neighborhood built from the ground up. Over the last three months we have redesigned the infrastructure, from roads to roofs and from top to bottom, in order to be prepared for the millions of members that will take part in the largest online, secure convention ever.

There are many changes, but a few that you’ll notice immediately:

• To be transparent and accountable, from here on we will be using real names in the community, not user names. Your votes are kept absolutely confidential, but you converse with the community in your own name.
• New tools for participation include the ability to rank your issues and re-rank them as often as you like; group functionality to allow you to organize around issues, candidates, location, and events; the opportunity to upload content to enhance the community; and the new system of “political capital."
• Based on your feedback, the American Agenda issues have been reworked. We have provided descriptions for each of the issue items and added 3 new issues from the results of our recent polling exercise.

One year from this Sunday, America will elect a new president. We’re doing what we can to get ready and we hope you are, too!