I'm an ACA Life Member, mostly because I worked with their staff and AASHTO on restarting the US Bicycle Route System for about 15 years. I'm not directly involved with that anymore, but it's good to see the system growing in a healthy manner.

ACA just finished their new Strategic Plan, and it's available at https://www.adventurecycling.org/mem...icycle-travel/ . Not exactly a hidden agenda, but notably a shift from focusing on longer-distance bicycle travel to shorter trips, apparently to be more "accessible & relevant".

There's little in the strategic plan or most of the ACA website that's explicitly partisan, but there have been an uptick of items in the magazine with partisan political content, mostly incidental barbs and jabs at the unfavored political party, or stating somewhat-biased positions as unquestioned truths. And yet this magazine is an oasis of neutrality compared to American Bicyclist, Bicycling, and many other publications. And I'll leave it at that so as not to run afoul of the mods.