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Green Party Says It Is The Alternative to Warmongers and Special Interests
NATIONAL -- Despite its name, the concerns of the Green Party reach far beyond ecology and environmental issues. The party believes citizens, not corporations, are the true stakeholders in democracy.“ ...
20 Apr, 2015
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This is What Inevitability Looks Like: How Hillary Clinton Won the Invisible Primary (Part 2)
As discussed in the first part of this story, Hillary Clinton has spent the last few years repairing her image for the 2016 presidential election. An important aspect of this image-repair involve ...
09 Apr, 2015
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Report: Support for Marijuana Legalization Jumps 19 Points in 10 Years
On March 4, 2015, the General Social Study published its latest report examining the public's opinion on marijuana legalization. The study documents both the shift in popular consensus ...
06 Mar, 2015
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6 More States Consider Adopting Independent Redistricting Groups
Redistricting has been a contentious process since the early 1800s, when Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that reshaped electoral districts in Massachusetts to benefit the Democratic-Republicans. ...
23 Feb, 2015
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Looking to the Founders: Capital Punishment
Last week, the Utah House reignited the capital punishment controversy by approving a measure to bring back the firing squad as a legal form of execution in response to growing court challenges o ...
20 Feb, 2015
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Looking to the Founders: Benjamin Church, Edward Snowden, and Defining Treason
Without a doubt, almost every American knows the name Benedict Arnold. Arnold was the worst form of traitor: one who does the damage, then flees without taking responsibility for their actions.But ano ...
04 Feb, 2015
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Millennial Leaders Need to Re-Engage Peers to Become Politically Active
It’s no secret that Millennials are disinterested in politics. Their turnout in the 2014 elections was dismal at best, and a recent Harvard poll revealed that only 35 percent of 18-29 year olds believ ...
27 Jan, 2015
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League of Women Voters Joins Fight to Defend Independent Redistricting Commissions
The League of Women Voters (LWV) has filed an amicus brief (friend of the court) in the U.S. Supreme Court case Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commi ...
26 Jan, 2015
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8 States Where Party Registration Lags Behind Independent Registration
Independent voters are the fastest growing voting bloc in the U.S. The number of people who self-identify as neither Republican nor Democrat has been on a steady incline since 2008. In the last two ye ...
19 Jan, 2015
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Partisan Advocate Fears Calif. Court May Side with Voters
On Thursday, January 15, oral arguments were made before the California State Appeals Court in San Francisco in the case Rubin v. Bowen. Third parties continue to challenge the nonpartisan, top-two op ...
16 Jan, 2015
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