Americans have always disagreed.
The deeper problem is that we are increasingly being taught to treat disagreement as evidence that the person across from us is stupid, immoral or dangerous.
Better Together USA exists to interrupt that pattern.
We are a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit bringing conservatives, liberals, independents and people who have stepped away from politics back into the same civic life.
We do not ask anyone to water down what they believe. We ask people to know why they believe it, test it against facts, hear the strongest case from someone who sees the world differently and remain capable of working together when the conversation is over.
That belief guides everything we do.
The American Conversation brings people with different political views together for serious conversations about issues shaping American life.
Neighbor Tables create smaller, more personal spaces where a handful of people can sit together and talk honestly about something real.
The Strategists Society teaches people how to think rather than what to think by developing critical thinking, media literacy, judgment and manipulation awareness.
Our work also includes civic education, community service and opportunities for people with different perspectives to participate in civic life together.
Difference is not the problem. The problem begins when political identity becomes permission to stop thinking, stop listening or stop seeing other Americans as human beings.
We believe people can disagree strongly, remain true to their convictions and still share a community and a country.
Better Together USA brings Americans across political and cultural differences together to strengthen civic understanding, critical thinking and community responsibility through nonpartisan education, honest dialogue, leadership development and service.
We are not trying to make people think alike. We are building the skills and relationships that allow people to disagree deeply without dehumanizing one another and to keep working together as neighbors, citizens and members of the same country.
America’s challenge is no longer simply that people disagree about politics. The deeper problem is that disagreement is increasingly shaping how Americans see one another.
Research shows that large majorities of Republicans and Democrats hold strongly negative feelings toward the opposing party. In 2025, 80% of Americans said Republican and Democratic voters could not agree even on basic facts and majorities in both parties described the other party in overwhelmingly negative terms.
At the same time, Americans are increasingly concerned about politically motivated violence. Recent national research found that people across political affiliations point to polarization, inflammatory rhetoric and an unwillingness to understand people with different views as contributors to that violence. Federal law enforcement has also documented threats and swatting incidents targeting public officials and political appointees.
Better Together USA was created in response to that broader civic fracture.
We believe a healthy country must be able to contain serious disagreement without turning disagreement into hatred. Conservatives, liberals, independents and people who have stepped away from politics should be able to challenge one another, question assumptions and hold strong convictions while still recognizing one another as members of the same community.
Our work creates the infrastructure for that to happen.
Through The American Conversation, Neighbor Tables, civic education, critical thinking and media literacy training, community service and leadership development we bring people back into direct relationship with one another. Participants learn to examine information more carefully, recognize manipulation, understand civic institutions, listen without surrendering their convictions and work alongside people whose beliefs may be very different from their own.
Colorado is our first statewide proof of concept. From there, Better Together USA is building a model that can be documented, measured and eventually replicated in additional states.
Our vision is a country where Americans can disagree deeply without becoming enemies...where people understand why they believe what they believe and where shared citizenship remains stronger than political division.
We do not have to agree to belong to the same community.
Organization name
Better Together USA Inc
other names
BTUSA
2026
Tax id (EIN)
42-4173023
Category
Public & Societal Benefit, Education, Community Improvement & Capacity Building
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
3578 HARTSEL DR E-125CO, US
Colorado Springs, CO, US
Seattle, WA, US
WA, US