"Thank God you're running as an independent. This place is deeply broken and it needs fixing." The people closest to the machinery, he says, know best how failed it is.
After two Charter Revision Commissions, five op-eds in one week, and a new poll blowing up the "donor scheme" narrative, independent voters are done waiting to be invited into the conversation.
There's an old superstition that things always come in threes. This summer, it seems as if politicians needing to be replaced in office or on the ballot fits the bill.
The effort to repeal California’s Top Two primary would erase the constitutional guarantee that “all voters may vote,” sidelining more than 6 million independents as reformers push for a Top Four or Top Five alternative.
A little-noticed regulatory change creates a new process for reconsidering some of California's longest criminal sentences. Now, victims' advocates are preparing for what could become one of the state's biggest legal battles in years.
From closed primaries and gerrymandered districts to ballot-access barriers and debate rules, the two-party system limits voter choice long before Election Day.
In New York City’s deepest-blue districts, Republicans are not a credible alternative—but coalition-minded independents could give voters the competition the closed primary system denies them.
With independent voters now a majority, former Republican rivals Allan Fung and Ken Block are betting Rhode Island’s political future belongs outside the two-party system.
The US Constitution begins with "We the People." These words do not distinguish between Democrats, Republicans, independents, or voters with no party affiliation. They simply recognize the people.
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