December 19, 2025 Stuck in the Mud and Still Moving Forward Marty's Notebook Hi all, Across many of the networks we work with, we are seeing the same underlying strain. People are still committed. The issues still matter. But shared understanding is thinning, trust is harder to sustain, and acting together feels more difficult than it used to. At Netcentric Campaigns, we have been naming this breakdown as civic pollution, a term we use to describe the accumulation of forces that erode trust,...