Right to Democracy and the Cross-Territorial Coalition we coordinate includes people and organizations whose views on political status range the full spectrum from pro-Statehood to pro-Independence and options in between. While we are exclusively a non-partisan organization, our work brings together people who identify as both Democrats and Republicans and includes people from the major political parties in Puerto Rico. The fact that Supreme Court Justices with as different views as Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor both reject the colonial framework governing the Territories highlights how these issues are not partisan or ideological. 

We work across partisan and status differences for two reasons. First, our core values include building common ground, respecting differences, and avoiding toxicity. This means working collectively with people from diverse perspectives to improve understanding, co-create new meanings, and leverage collective power to achieve a common objective. It also means listening with an open mind, empathizing with lived experiences, acknowledging power dynamics, and treating everyone with dignity. Second, a key lesson we have learned over the course of dozens of listening sessions with people from across all five territories is that there is much more that unites us than what separates us. Internal divisions over political status or partisan ideology have historically been used as an excuse for continued inaction by the federal government on issues of democracy and self-determination in U.S. territories. We believe people can respectfully differ on solutions while sharing a deep underlying common understanding of the problem and the need for change. From this shared foundation, we can work together in true solidarity and community towards a reckoning that U.S. colonial rule is real, wrong, and needs to end now.