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7 Ways Ranked Choice Voting Can Empower Your Voice in Elections
Election Day 2015 has come and gone, and voters in cities in six states again found that they were not limited to marking only one candidate, but had the ability to rank the candidates in order of cho ...
05 Nov, 2015
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7 min read
3 Ways The Parties Have Diminished Your Power at the Ballot Box
It is no secret that the two major parties in the U.S have actively worked to rig the election system for their own benefit and so they can drown out any independent voices. I was reminded of this fac ...
23 Oct, 2015
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2 min read
From Grassroots Movement to Major Party: A Brief History of the Independent Party of Oregon
In February, IVN.us reported on the possibility that the Independent Party of Oregon might be named Oregon's third major party by registering 5 percent of the state's voters by August 17 of this year. ...
14 Sep, 2015
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10 min read
Unlikely Bedfellows: Paul Krugman, Elizabeth Warren, and Donald Trump Agree on Economics
In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Paul Krugman argues Donald Trump is right on economics. This defense of Trump comes after Jeb Bush began attacking Trump as a false conservative for previou ...
08 Sep, 2015
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2 min read
All Independent Voters Have A Story... What's Yours?
Personal stories matter in politics. Personal stories connect us to the issues. They tie large, abstract issues to personal, human events. They help us empathize. They help us connect to each other, a ...
22 Jul, 2015
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6 min read
Voters Think Pot is Safer than Alcohol, But Who Will Legalize It Next?
While a majority of Americans - 52 percent - now favor weed legalization, the federal government has done very little to act on the changing views of the nation. Many states, however, have taken matte ...
21 Jul, 2015
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1 min read
Bernie Sanders' Idea For Inter-Party Primary Debates Isn't As Wild As You Think
In June, Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, made waves in the world of political punditry when he suggested in a letter to th ...
17 Jul, 2015
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5 min read
Bernie Sanders vs. Rand Paul: Who Wins the Millennial Vote?
It’s tough to imagine a scenario in which both U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are nominated by their respective parties in the 2016 presidential race. But in a hypothetical ...
14 Jul, 2015
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5 min read
How State, Federal Courts Are Working to End Partisan Gerrymandering
Florida's Supreme Court struck down much of the state's congressional districting map on July 9, ordering the redrawing of what it termed "constitutionally invalid" districts in 2 of the 27 distr ...
13 Jul, 2015
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12 min read
Tensions Spike between Local Governments, Feds after San Francisco Shooting
On July 1, Kathryn Steinle was shot and killed on a popular pier in San Francisco. Her murderer, 45-year-old Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, had taken sleeping pills he found in a dumpste ...
09 Jul, 2015
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5 min read