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The Electoral Count Reform Act: Everything You Need to Know
All of us remember when Vice President Mike Pence declared Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election at the end of a violent day at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Those were trying times for our country as MAGA loyalists circulated baseless claims of fraud and Donald Trump pressured his vice president to prevent Biden’s win by not counting electoral votes from some states.
08 October, 2024
AI
Gary Marcus on AI Regulation: US Political System 'Wasn't Set Up to Push Through Things Effectively'
In the latest episode of the Forward Podcast, Forward Party Co-Founder Andrew Yang sat down with AI researcher and author Gary Marcus to discusses the dangers an unchecked generative AI industry has on consumers and US democracy.
16 September, 2024
Congress
US Lawmakers Tell States to Guarantee Equal Voting Rights for Independents or Lose Federal Funds
Veterans For All Voters hosted a virtual webinar Tuesday with two members of Congress that may be on opposite sides of the political aisle but are sponsors of a bill that ensures independent voters are guaranteed equal voting rights in taxpayer-funded elections.
14 August, 2024
stock trading
A Historic First: Congressional Stock Trading Ban Makes It Out of Committee
A bill that would completely ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks while in office was approved by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs.
28 July, 2024
US Congress
House Bill Introduced to Protect All Voters' Rights to Participate in Taxpayer-Funded Elections
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would enshrine into law the right independent voters have to participate in all taxpayer-funded elections.
28 July, 2024
TikTok
TikTok Has No Place in the Two-Party Duopoly
The US House of Representatives voted 352-65 Wednesday in favor of a bill (HR 7521) that would ban TikTok, a social media app used by approximately 170 million Americans, if Chinese tech company ByteDance refuses to divest from it.
13 March, 2024
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Can Congress Still Do Its Job? How Polarization Threatens Your Favorite Cause
Over the weekend, Senate negotiators released final language of a bill that would address the growing crisis at America’s southern border while also providing aid to Ukraine and Israel. This would be great news, if House Speaker Mike Johnson hadn’t announced the bill was dead on arrival before the bill had been written.
06 February, 2024
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HR 1: Bipartisan Support for Popular Political Reform Evaporates in Congress
Perhaps it is not surprising that Friday’s vote on HR1, the omnibus election reform bill, broke strictly along partisan lines...
13 March, 2019
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12 Things Everyone Should Know About The Debt Ceiling
There are a lot of misconceptions out there about the debt ceiling. Here are 12 things every American should know about it and what hitting it means.
28 February, 2019