CC is Growing! Here's What You Need to Know - March 2026

To our amazing Conscious Citizens community —

When we started The Conscious Citizens, it was with the belief that people who already care about their world deserve tools that actually meet them where they are; that people didn’t want more headlines to scroll past, but real education, real resources, and actionable steps you could take, whether you've been organizing for years or just becoming politically awakened.

Since then, over ten thousand (!!) of you have signed up, read our Dispatches, shared our resources, and shown up in ways that remind us why we started this. Ten thousand people who want to be more conscious citizens, in a little over a year. That number still stops us in our tracks, and we’re grateful to have you with us on this journey! Seeing this project grow has just confirmed to us how people are done watching, and are ready to act.

But we do need to be honest with you about something:

Building The Conscious Citizens - the research, the writing, the long-form essays, the videos, the resource curation, the social media content - is truly a labor of love. For a tiny team running on passion and not much else, it has definitely taken a toll! We've realized that if we want to keep doing this - and do it better - we need to build something more sustainable so we can do this in the long-term. Burning out doesn’t serve anyone (and that’s a big lesson we’ve learned the hard way in the past).

So starting April 13th, we're introducing a new membership structure for The Conscious Citizens.

Here's what's changing, and what isn't.

First, here's what isn’t changing:

• The resource directory stays completely free. Always. We promise!
• The newsletter calls to action, movement wins, the dictionary word, conscious creatives, and featured resources stay free.

Here’s what will be changing:

• Connecting the Dots essays will now be known as “Deep Dives”
• The Dispatch will be released twice per month, once at mid-month and once at the end of the month, rather than bi-weekly.
• Each month, the Dispatch will now alternate between two formats:
  • A full length Dispatch with every segment you already are familiar with, including the Activist History and an original Deep Dive essay.
  • An abbreviated “Action & Resources” Dispatch with calls to action, movement wins, dictionary word, resources, and links to content, books, or articles that we’re consuming so we can continue to learn and grow together.
• We will be releasing more long-form video content, starting with a monthly Youtube video based on our Deep Dive essays.
  • Eventually, and with enough support, our goal is to also launch a podcast and other educational content for you.
• Written Deep Dive essays & Activist Histories articles will be paywalled for $5/mo and up members, since these are the pieces that take the most time and care to produce at a consistent high quality.
  • Don’t worry! Our Deep Dive videos will be free for everyone, but $5/mo and up supporters will get access to the written essays, with all references and sources, 1 week early.

The updated membership tier structure

Starting April 13th, here are the updates to our membership tiers we'll be making. We will also be adding additional benefits to higher membership tiers. Here's the break down:

A thank-you offer for being here first.

We know this is a big change, so we want to show our appreciation for sticking with us. For the next 30 days, you can lock in your first year of any paid tier at 20% off — our way of saying thank you for helping us build this thing from the ground up.

Here's what your membership makes possible for us.

We're not asking for your support just to keep the lights on. We have real plans to grow, we're eager to act, and we need our community to have our back! Your membership is what will help us turn these plans from wishful ideas into reality.

• 📹 Monthly video essays on YouTube — documentary-style videos of the Deep Dive topics we cover in the newsletter since more and more people have shared they prefer to watch instead of read - released a week after each Deep Dive essay.
• 🎙️ A podcast — going deeper than a newsletter can with conversations from creators, intellectuals, educators, journalists, artists, organizers, and activists doing the work.
• 📚 A richer resource directory — more curated, more searchable, more useful. And always free!
• 🤝 A real community — a revamped Discord where we can connect, organize, and find each other locally.
• 💪 More bandwidth — allow us to have more time and energy to organize volunteer programs, in-person events, and develop future educational workshops without burning out (which are also our most requested additions to The Conscious Citizens!)

None of this happens without your sustainable support!

We know change can feel like loss, even when it's designed to help us grow.

This change doesn’t come from nowhere. We’ve thought long and hard about this decision for a while now, and ultimately we truly want to give this platform the best chance possible to thrive and reciprocal support is key to that happening. We still believe deeply in accessible education which is why the $2 tier exists, the majority of the Dispatch will remain free, and the directory will always be free. But the writing, the research, the video creation work needs to be sustained if it's going to keep being good consistently. If we can get some more support from you all, then we can keep dedicating more time, resources, and energy to making the Conscious Citizens bigger, better, and more impactful!

You don't have to do anything with this. Stay free, go deeper with a membership, or just know the directory is there whenever you need it. Whatever you choose, we're glad you found us and we’re excited to keep building together. We love you!

In solidarity,

Ray & Elisa
Co-founders, The Conscious Citizens

P.S. — We never want cost to be the reason someone can't access this work. If a paid membership is genuinely out of reach, but you still want to learn from us, just reply to this email and say so. We’re happy to give you a year of Activist ($5 tier) membership free. No questions asked!