Search query: washington

Americans Want Congress to Stop Playing the Market — So Why Won’t Lawmakers Listen?
Americans Want Congress to Stop Playing the Market — So Why Won’t Lawmakers Listen?
Americans have spoken, again and again — and the message is crystal clear: members of Congress should not be allowed to trade stocks while in office. Yet, despite bipartisan legislative proposals and national scrutiny, Congress continues to stall.
05 Aug, 2025
-
3 min read
The Redistricting War Is Here — One CA Republican Says It’s Time to Call It Off
The Redistricting War Is Here — One CA Republican Says It’s Time to Call It Off
Texas Republicans have threatened to redraw their maps to protect their party’s majority in Congress. California Democrats have, in turn, threatened to respond with their own mid-decade redistricting to “fight fire with fire.”
05 Aug, 2025
-
4 min read
Five Seats, One Revolution: Independents Launch Political Disruptor
Five Seats, One Revolution: Independents Launch Political Disruptor
One week after hosting its inaugural event in DC, the founders of The Independent Center announced the formation of the Independent PAC, a hybrid political action committee designed to do one thing: deny the two major parties a majority in Congress.
31 Jul, 2025
-
3 min read
Louisiana’s New Voting System: Closed, Confusing, and Costly
Louisiana’s New Voting System: Closed, Confusing, and Costly
Louisiana is making the switch to closed partisan primaries for some elections in 2026, using a system that will no doubt confuse many of the state’s registered No Party voters, who are about to add approximately 151,000 people to their numbers. 
30 Jul, 2025
-
6 min read
DC Dems to Independent Voters: You Don’t Matter
DC Dems to Independent Voters: You Don’t Matter
The DC City Council had one final opportunity to fund a provision approved by 73% of city voters in November that would open primary elections to 83,000+ independent voters – and the Democratic-controlled body elected instead not to honor the will of voters.
29 Jul, 2025
-
2 min read
Manchin to DC: Independents Are Here, and We’re Not Going Away
Manchin to DC: Independents Are Here, and We’re Not Going Away
The rise of an independent majority has long been dismissed by the press as a myth, which is why few people heard about an event in the nation’s capital on July 23 that gathered prominent and rising independent voices.
29 Jul, 2025
-
4 min read
California Is Doing What Congress Can't on Immigration
California Is Doing What Congress Can't on Immigration
In an era when immigration remains one of the most divisive issues in American politics, a bipartisan group of California lawmakers has done something rare: they’ve found unity.
24 Jul, 2025
-
5 min read
The Trump Russia Story Was False, but What About Tulsi’s Tale?
The Trump Russia Story Was False, but What About Tulsi’s Tale?
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is accusing the Obama administration of “treasonous conspiracy” for promoting what she called “the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.”
23 Jul, 2025
-
7 min read
How It Really Works: The Unfair Fight Between Legal Cannabis and Unregulated 'Gas‑Station' Hemp
How It Really Works: The Unfair Fight Between Legal Cannabis and Unregulated 'Gas‑Station' Hemp
When President Richard Nixon told the nation on June 17, 1971, that drug abuse was “public enemy number one,” he formally launched the War on Drugs and cemented cannabis in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. 
22 Jul, 2025
-
10 min read
Don’t Blame Mamdani for Closed Primaries in New York City
Don’t Blame Mamdani for Closed Primaries in New York City
The NYC Charter Revision Commission (CRC) will hold its final meeting on July 21 to decide what reforms to city policy will appear on the November ballot. However, one proposal will not be on the commission’s docket – open primaries.
21 Jul, 2025
-
10 min read