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Reach For You

A story for America's 250th year

America turns 250 this year — and we've never felt further apart.

Reach For You is a national campaign built on ten songs. They sound like love songs. They are — but the one they're secretly written for is her: the country herself, and every stranger in it.

The whole thing is one instruction:

Put on a song. Then reach for one person — a call, a handshake, a porch, a slow dance in the kitchen. Someone you've been meaning to call. A name you scroll right past. A neighbor whose yard sign you can't stand. The world is splitting. Reach anyway — it's the one thing they swore we'd never do.

Then tell us who you reached. That's it. No paywall, no party, no agenda but the reach itself.

Tell us who you reached Play the album

Want the whole story? Read the short tale of the morning a small-town DJ played the album — and a divided country started reaching back.

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