Route 24's Founding Member Drive
What kind of legacy do you want to represent?
The Route 24 Roadmap
If you’re new here, welcome! If you’ve been here since day one, thanks for showing up week after week! My name is Sam Reetz and I’m on a mission to help restore public trust. I have an interdisciplinary academic background that gives me the unique ability to explain technical solutions in a way that’s story-driven and easy-to-understand. This is a space where I look closer at moments of national and global significance to show you how cycles of misinformation and disinformation disorient communities.
Probable Cause is an XR civic education gaming experience that puts you in the driver’s seat to explore issues of public safety from community-centered perspectives. Route 24 is its companion newsletter that invites you to explore our creative process on the project as we build, deconstructing the real-world impact of policies and practices in transportation infrastructure, immigration reform, environmental justice, racial equity, and more to jumpstart public awareness and, in turn, mobilize narrative change.
Every week, two columns park in your inbox:
Driver’s Ed is a space to shift your gears on key policy debates and test drive people-powered solutions.
Scenic Route is a space to merge the lanes of immersive technologies, experiential storytelling, and community civics and help you find a better view.
Your follows, shares, and subscriptions help to keep this work going and reach the people the mainstream media often misses. For riders in a position to financially contribute, your dollars support the project team with the critical resources needed to iterate, travel, and scale.
Thank you for joining me on this road! Start your engines…
In This Issue (Tuesday, May 26th, 2026 — № 91):
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what defines a legacy, to whom the privilege of reflection is afforded, and how that understanding might influence our individual and collective approach to policy in practice.
Derived from the Middle English, legacie, and first used as early as 1514, the word legacy in Modern English has two primary definitions: as a noun, it refers to the inheritance of personal values or belongings; as an adjective, it refers to a methodology that’s still operational but outdated.
The distinction between both interpretations is well-represented in this clip, featuring FDR’s granddaughter. In it, she reflects on the values her grandparents leadership steered America towards, while also signaling today’s unprecedented roadblocks impeding inalienable freedoms.
I, too, was lucky to have grandparents that believed strongly in making a difference. In particular, my grandfather, an Air Force veteran, would use the phrase, “stay the course”, to emphasize life’s need for a healthy mix of persistence and ingenuity. Its applicability to creative, entrepreneurial, and democratic advancement is in large part why I echo that sentiment within every newsletter signature.
According to polling data from The Economist, 38% of American men don’t plan to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. Moreover, recent survey results from an NPR/PBS News/Marist study suggest that 63% of Americans believe the cost of living isn’t affordable. Add to that the gradual attempts at devaluing progressive case law and supplanting it with constitutional amendments that further undermine the state of civil liberties, storied institutions, the integrity of public service, and public trust as a whole, and reflecting on legacy narratives becomes all the more mission critical when assessing best practices for improved navigation.
For Patrons of Social Justice Art who share in our ongoing commitment to advance storytelling for the public good, Route 24’s Founding Membership Drive kicks into high gear starting right now and will run full speed ahead until Wednesday, June 24, with our end goal to reach 27 Founding Members.
We hope you choose to come along for the ride.
Stay the course,
Sam
Sam Reetz, is a filmmaker, performer, and founder at Millennial Ethics, creating narrative solutions to complex issues.
Follow her work on Bluesky, Substack and Instagram.
“We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”
From President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a letter to William Allan Neilson, co-chair of the Sponsor Committee, Fourth Annual Conference of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born (1940).
Driving Social Justice Art Forward
For values-aligned benefactors interested in making a social and cultural statement towards the preservation of an interdisciplinary arts culture that seeks to drive social justice forward, please consider becoming a Route 24 Founding Member ($280/year). Route 24’s Founding Membership Drive kicks into high gear starting right now and will run full speed ahead until Wednesday, June 24, with our end goal to reach 27 Founding Members.
This exclusive membership circle is a space where social justice art, insight, and connection meet, unlocking VIP access and special recognition at demo sessions and activations, while granting the project team the essential financial support to iterate, travel, and scale Probable Cause, our XR civic education gaming experience that puts you in the driver’s seat to explore issues of public safety from community-centered perspectives.
As an expression of gratitude, you will receive a handwritten thank you note at your preferred mailing address within 5-7 business days from the date of your contribution.
You are also encouraged to help jumpstart the conversation by sharing what personally calls you to support this project with your community and have included shareable graphics for ease-of-reference.
