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Ohio: The Next State to End Gerrymandering?
Update 5/9/18: Issue 1 -- Ohio redistricting reform -- passed with three-fourths voter support, 74.9% voting "Yes."Update 5/8/18, 8:57 PM ET: Election results in Ohio point to overwhelming victory for...
Pennsylvania: The Wretched Face of Gerrymandering
Another election season, another increasingly bizarre redrawing of the electoral map. In states across the U.S., voting districts are elongated and chopped, stretched like taffy to cover certain state...
National Week of Conversation: Historic Movement Shatters Partisan Barriers
Did you participate in the National Week of Conversation?The Bridge Alliance, along with 100 sponsoring organizations, community organizers, elected officials, and more, held hundreds of events -- pub...
60 Reasons To Legalize Marijuana
1. Liberty - Well a good place to start is so that we can live out our own American values of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by respecting every individual's liberty to make their own cho...
Dem. Rep. Scott Peters on Immigration, Qualcomm, and Common Ground with President Trump
IVN San Diego sat down with Democratic Rep. Scott Peters at our studios for a wide-ranging interview that focused on the County Board of Supervisors 3-1 vote on SB-54, the DACA debate where Peters tho...
Young, Scrappy, and Hungry: More Independents Take On Two-Party Duopoly
Welcome to our weekly post, Independent Action, where we let you know the important moves independent candidates and organizations made over the past week.Nathan Altman, a 30-year old “scrappy en...
The Predicament of Polling
If 2016 taught me anything, it is how disastrous political polls have become. And as we head into the 2018 midterms, we should take a hard look how we are conducting them, crunching the numbers and us...
Independents Rally to Break Two-Party Model of Hypocrisy and Gridlock
Welcome to our weekly post, Independent Action, where we let you know the important moves Independent candidates and organizations made over the past week.Governor Bill Walker of Alaska passed HB...
Independent Candidates Make History; Throw Wrench Into Two-Party Machine
Welcome to our weekly post, Independent Action, where we let you know the important moves independent candidates and organizations made over the past week.Terry Hayes qualified for the ballot in ...
8 Things You Didn't Know About Rand Paul
A lot of independents like Rand Paul because he's so different from a lot of U.S. Senators who go to Washington to lie low, not make any waves, bring back something for the constituents, and enjoy the...