Wouldn't it be exciting to get away from all the noise and actually start fixing politics?

Aren't you exhausted yet, my dear Democrats? Aren't you tired of waking up to your phone’s alarm clock, only to be sucked into an infinite scroll of political doom. But there IS a solution to this mess. So why not join us in Baltimore and invent new ideas to fix our broken politics?

Aren’t you fed up, my dear Democratic compatriots? Aren’t you exhausted by the endless Zoom calls, the constant Slack pings, the overflowing inboxes — all in service of broken strategies that never seem to accomplish anything? Wouldn’t right now be the perfect moment to walk away? Because if you’re ready for something completely new, Democratic Retreats is ready for you.

By Mike Reid | September 2025

Look — there’s a massive political fiasco unfolding in America right now, and yes, it absolutely deserves a bold reaction.

And sure, Trump is being Trump. He got his bill through Congress — the one slashing taxes for billionaires while gutting programs for the poor — and he signed it in the Oval Office on July 4, 2025.

Yes, that happened.

But honestly? That’s not even what I want to talk about right now.

What I want to talk about is the void — the total lack of energy, coordination, or fresh ideas coming from the Democratic Party in response. There’s no bold vision. No future-forward plan.

Just a shrug, a sigh, and maybe a half-hearted Zoom call.

It's absolutely NOT red alert at Democratic HQ.

Not even close.

When you stop and imagine what you'd hope is happening right now at the DNC, DSCC, and DCCC, you'd picture some kind of fast-paced, action-packed West Wing-style buzz, right?

Well, I can assure you — it’s nothing like that.

Even though this moment should feel like an emergency — Trump just got re-elected, AI is rewriting the rules of communication, and the old Democratic playbook is in shreds — what you’ll actually find inside Democratic HQ isn’t panic.

It’s confusion.

Fatigue.

Lethargy.

There’s no bold new plan coming. Just a strange, stunned silence.

And that’s exactly why this moment matters. Because in this odd political void — in the absence of any obvious next move — anyone can be the one to invent what comes next.

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Because the truth is, the people running Democratic HQ right now are trying their hardest — but they’re struggling to succeed, or even fully grasp the scope of the problem, because they’re stuck inside a broken system.

And it’s not any single leader’s fault. It’s just that success is literally impossible inside an outdated, top-down structure like the DNC.

And so, if we really are in a political crisis — and if the crisis is fundamentally rooted in the plain fact that nobody can actually succeed inside these broken systems anymore — then the only real path forward is to step outside them. To gather in small, passionate groups of people whose skills complement each other, and dive into focused bursts of deep work.

And when choosing the first location for Democratic Retreats — a place to escape the political noise, step outside our broken systems, and actually build what comes next — there’s no better choice than Baltimore. It’s close to power, but not consumed by it. Plus, you can get to Baltimore extremely easily by Amtrak from New York, Philly, and DC — and yet Baltimore is far enough off the mental map that nobody in those cities would ever think to come looking.

That’s the magic. Baltimore gives you space to think, to breathe, to collaborate without the suffocating energy of legacy institutions breathing down your neck. And Baltimore is misunderstood, underestimated, and totally underrated — which makes it the perfect hiding-in-plain-sight launchpad for a new political era.

So drop everything, come to Baltimore, make politics fun again, and get paid to help build what comes next. And who knows — you might just find yourself staying longer than you'd initially planned.