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Meet The Candidate Giving Independents Hope in the Midwest
Unbeknownst to most, Nebraska records some of the coldest temperatures in the United States. The reason it beats out most northern states is because it’s so flat the cold winds blow uninterrupted.Bob ...
19 Dec, 2017
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19 min read
Enough is Enough! Stop Making Excuses for Sexual Misconduct
In 2004, then Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld sent a memorandum to his Under Secretary in which he expressed concerns regarding recent allegations of sexual assault on service member ...
15 Dec, 2017
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4 min read
Lenny Mendonca Talks About Challenging Both Parties to Move California Forward
This week, T.J. O’Hara is joined by Lenny Mendonca on the IVN podcast, A Civil Assessment.Lenny Mendonca is a Senior Partner Emeritus from the Washington D.C. and San Francisco offices of McKinsey &am ...
05 Dec, 2017
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1 min read
The Two Parties Are Destroying the American Dream
At a time when so many Americans are so deeply divided on a bevy of issues, it can be difficult to come to a consensus on anything. However, I do believe that one area where we may all find consensus ...
30 Nov, 2017
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5 min read
Huckabee: DC Isn't A Swamp; It's A Sewer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MVCRN3MX0Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee blasted Republican US Sen. Bob Corker and other GOP lawmakers who are refusing to get behind their own party's tax ref ...
28 Nov, 2017
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1 min read
Meet The GOP Congressman At War With His Own Party to End Gerrymandering
Rod Blum is a rarity in Congress – a member who actually wants a competitive district and a real challenge every Election Day.Blum, a Republican, believes this makes him a better congressman. He says ...
28 Nov, 2017
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4 min read
Here's How to Defeat the 4 Biggest Threats to Democracy
During a time of deep political dysfunction in the United States, it is easy to assume that American democracy has gone off the rails, perhaps for good. But if Americans can look past the slow-motion ...
13 Nov, 2017
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5 min read
How Seattle Is Leading the Fight Against Corrupt Politics
The experiment to save American democracy is happening, right now. And if you’re an American desperate to see a solution to the corrupt status quo, you should be paying attention.In late 2015, the peo ...
02 Nov, 2017
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4 min read
Lt. Gov. Newsom Pushes Single-Payer in First Gov. Debate
The first official debate between the top four Democrats running for California governor took place in Anaheim over the weekend.The event was hosted by the National Union of Healthcare Worke ...
24 Oct, 2017
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1 min read
One Congressman Pushes Bill To Eliminate Party Primaries
Washington is a mess. Our politics doesn’t work. Politicians are pointing at the voters as the problem -- that somehow we’ve become less civil, more polarized and less able to come together across par ...
24 Oct, 2017
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2 min read