We Are the DTW New Liberals

When we say Detroit Grit, we are talking about a particular state of mind we embrace here in southeast Michigan. The Detroit ethos embraces innovation, hard work, and playing fair. Whether you have lived here for generations or are fresh off the boat, we believe you have a fair shot at living the good life when you hustle hard.

As the DTW chapter of the center for new liberalism we believe that new liberal values are foundational to the Detroit grit that’s so essential to our past and future success. We advocate for policies and candidates who increase our social, economic, and environmental prosperity. We remind our neighbors, businesses, and government of the power of our new liberal values and what we can do to further adopt them. We work to make our metro happier, healthier, and more dynamic one pragmatic decision at a time.

Please join us! Think of us as a support group to encourage you to get politically involved in your neighborhood and local politics. We hold monthly virtual meetings to keep up to date with one another and quarterly in-person meetings to socialize and review our accomplishments. As new liberals we believe that social diversity, liberal freedoms, markets, and smart regulation are central to our prosperity. By joining us you gain friends and allies who will help you stay involved in your community. Join us and help knit the Detroit metropolitan region together according to our shared values.

Our focus is on making you engaged and motivated in your community, not on our brand. We believe the metro is large and diverse and each community has its own particular context. By working together and acknowledging our diversity as well as similarities we can help each other make pragmatic decisions that simultaneously benefit our neighborhoods and the region as a whole.

How we work:

• Monthly virtual tag up. We try to stick to a common agenda:

• Chapter updates: What we’ve focused on, what our priorities are, quarterly event planning

• Member updates: intro, what you’ve done, what your plan is

• General discussion

• Monthly newsletter summarizing the meeting

• We have a Discord server to stay in touch and ask each other questions

• Quarterly in-person events

• We manage a social media accounts to signal boost Detroit New Liberal values