How It Really Works
How It Really Works breaks down complex policy issues to help voters understand what’s really at stake. Each series combines in-depth articles, expert interviews, and short-form videos to cut through the partisan spin.
10 Ways Both Parties Are Destroying Democracy
As the political landscape in the United States gears up for the 2024 presidential election, the media's focus is often on the perceived threats to democracy posed by individual candidates or movements, like the rhetoric around the MAGA crowd and former President Donald Trump, who is treated as the likely GOP nominee....
09 Jan, 2024
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7 min read
The Conversation on Election Integrity Neither Party Wants You to Hear
Election integrity became a hot button issue during and in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. It is a phrase voters have heard a lot since November 3, as Donald Trump and many of his supporters claim widespread fraud took place that denied him re-election....
15 Jan, 2021
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28 min read
Everything You Need to Know About the Commission on Presidential Debates
The first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is scheduled for Tuesday, September...
28 Sep, 2020
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6 min read
10 Facts You Need to Know About CA's Confusing and Unconstitutional Presidential Primary
On July 23, 2019, the (IVP)-- one of 7 plaintiffs --...
14 Aug, 2019
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12 min read
The Impending Disaster of California's Confusing Presidential Primary
The 2016 presidential primaries in California didn’t go smoothly. The election was marred by widespr...
27 Mar, 2019
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9 min read
The Myths, The Facts, The Future: Everything You Need to Know About Ranked Choice Voting
Partisan gerrymandering. Money in politics. The Electoral College. Undue restrictions on who votes and how we vote. Every contentious election issue discussed today was either inherited from 18th-century England or came out of a compromise in our democracy’s incubation when there were few voters and fewer voting models....
11 Jun, 2018
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17 min read
The Real History: California's Top-Two Nonpartisan Primary Electoral Reform
It is periodically reported that California’s Prop 14 (Non-partisan Top Two Primary) was drafted in the middle of the night in the back rooms of the California Legislature. Nothing could be further from the truth....
27 Apr, 2018
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14 min read
What is Electoral Reform?
Electoral reform includes any reforms to the electoral and political systems that make lawmakers more accountable to the people who elect them. The purpose of election reform is to improve voter opportunities and create better choices at the ballot box, giving better representation to everyone....
23 Apr, 2018
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8 min read
50 Ways the Democratic and Republican Parties Are The Same
1. Both parties engage in and benefit from gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing district lines ...
03 Aug, 2016
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20 min read
100 Ways Republicans Are Just Like Democrats
There is a widely-held perception that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are drastically different in their policy, proposals, philosophy of government, and general modus operandi. While there are certainly some significant differences between the two parties, the number of similarities are astounding....
06 Nov, 2012
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19 min read