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A decade ago, I sat down and wrote a series of blog posts, inaugurating a space that would eventually grow into the worldwide phenomenon known as Strong Towns. Much has happened in the intervening years\u2014so much since I was that lone voice in the wilderness\u2014but one thing has remained constant: it\u2019s our audience that turns these ideas into a movement.\nThis week is our fall member drive. We\u2019re sitting at just under 2,500 members, an astounding number by historical comparison, but relatively small compared to the 1.3 million unique people we\u2019ve reached over the past year. It\u2019s always a small handful of people that change the world. Today, let yourself become one of them.\nJoin the movement! Sign up to be a member of Strong Towns.\nIn past years, I\u2019ve made the case that your membership will allow us to support this movement in critical ways. I had an idea of what that would look like, but my vision was untested. I was asking you to take a small gamble on us. Thousands of you did.\nToday, it\u2019s not a gamble anymore. While we are still a small group operating on a shoestring budget, we have an approach that is working. We create important content you won\u2019t find anywhere else, thoughts that need to be out there impacting the conversations taking place within our communities. We use all our inventiveness and creativity to push these ideas out, distributing the Strong Towns message to audiences far and wide. And through it all, we nudge people to take real action, wherever they live. We\u2019ve watched those people be successful. Our members are doing amazing things to build stronger, more resilient cities. Strong Towns is a winning strategy.\nSo this year, I\u2019m not asking you to take a gamble. I\u2019m merely asking you to step up and become a member of the fastest-growing urbanist movement out there. I\u2019m asking you to join nearly 2,500 others who are giving us the resources we need to take this movement to the next level. I\u2019m inviting you to be part of a revolution in how we build our cities, towns and neighborhoods and bring enduring stability and prosperity to these places.\nDon\u2019t leave it to someone else. Make this the day you become a member of Strong Towns. Trust me: you\u2019re going to want to be part of everything that comes next.