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How To Save Our Republic Through Nonpartisan Political Innovation

NANR Executive Director Jim Jonas interviews honorary NANR Co-Chair Katherine Gehl, former CEO of Gehl Foods and co-author of the groundbreaking Harvard Business School report, "Why Competition in the

By Jim Jonas

/ December 4, 2019

How To Save Our Republic Through Nonpartisan Political Innovation

Why Are We Denying 30 Million Citizens Their Right to Vote?

National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers Executive Director Jim Jonas and his October guests talk about the collaborative efforts underway to create a healthier democratic process and the consequences for shutting out independents.

By Jim Jonas

/ October 16, 2019

Why Are We Denying 30 Million Citizens Their Right to Vote?

NANR Executive Director Jim Jonas interviewed two guests in October. The first was Debilyn Molineaux, co-founder and executive director of the Bridge Alliance Education Fund. Bridge Alliance is a diverse

By Jim Jonas

/ October 16, 2019

UnRig It: "There's Something Rotten in Denmark!"

The system is rigged against voters at every institutional level, but the reform movement is building momentum going into 2020 and beyond.

By Jim Jonas

/ September 18, 2019

UnRig It: "There's Something Rotten in Denmark!"

NANR's Executive Director interviews two guests this month. First up, John Opdycke, President of Open Primaries, activist and strategist with more than 25 years of experience working in

By Jim Jonas

/ September 18, 2019

UnRig It: Suing Both Parties

The first episode of "UnRig It," the new podcast of the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, features two topics: first, on data for nonpartisan reform groups. We welcome

By Jim Jonas

/ August 21, 2019

Big Funders Looking Outside Two Parties for Breakthrough Reform Projects

Calling all nonpartisan reform campaigns, projects, and organizations. Do you have a great idea, a new campaign, or an ongoing nonpartisan electoral reform project that deserves attention, endorsement, and funding?

By Jim Jonas

/ August 9, 2018

Big Funders Looking Outside Two Parties for Breakthrough Reform Projects

Unrig the System? Reform Association Solicits “Breakthrough Projects” that Challenge Both Parties

The impressive momentum for progress in national electoral reform projects and campaigns owes much to the influential recent wins and viable initiatives underway across the country, including: * Maine voters upholding

By Jim Jonas

/ June 22, 2018

Unrig the System? Reform Association Solicits “Breakthrough Projects” that Challenge Both Parties

Broad Coalition of National Election Reform Groups Unite to Challenge Two-Party Duopoly

To focus the combined strengths, skills, and experience of some of the nation’s leading election reform organizations toward increasing voter participation and electoral competition, a prominent group of nonpartisan

By Jim Jonas

/ January 22, 2018

Broad Coalition of National Election Reform Groups Unite to Challenge Two-Party Duopoly

Independents Can't Win: The Biggest Lie in the Two-Party Playbook

There’s no argument that candidates affiliated with the major political parties have tremendous, built-in structural campaign advantages over independent candidates. The range of major-party advantages is long: * Ballot access

By Jim Jonas

/ October 17, 2017

Independents Can't Win: The Biggest Lie in the Two-Party Playbook

Find The Good and Praise It: Highlighting Nonpartisan Organizations That Put Voters ahead of Parties

Denver, Colo. -- Across the country, independent/nonpartisan organizations committed to fundamental political reform and equal rights for every voter are hard at work fighting the good fight on a

By Jim Jonas

/ June 4, 2015

Find The Good and Praise It: Highlighting Nonpartisan Organizations That Put Voters ahead of Parties

Do You Have to Join a Party to Vote? Third Circuit to Decide

On March 5, 2014, the Independent Voter Project, supported by a broad coalition of organizations from across the country, filed suit in New Jersey federal court, arguing that New Jersey’

By Jim Jonas

/ March 13, 2015

Do You Have to Join a Party to Vote? Third Circuit to Decide