OUR MISSION

Downtown For Democracy is a political action committee founded in 2003 by creative professionals with the goal of transforming cultural influence into political power. We raise funds primarily through the sale of artist editions. Those funds are then channeled toward two key activities: the development, production and placement of persuasive digital media in crucial swing states, and donations to leading groups devoted to community organizing and grassroots voter turnout.

“Downtown isn't a single place, it exists all over the country, anywhere the creative impulse lives. Downtown is America's creative center ... a place that looks far into the future … where ideals and freedoms are first imagined, communicated and fought for. From the labor movement to free speech to civil rights to Stonewall, Downtown has always envisioned and instigated change. That's what we create and what we export. Right now Downtown must come together for another kind of change.”

- Glenn O'Brien