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Democrats Face Mounting Pressure to Choose between Voting Rights and Filibuster
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on the IVN Network with permission from the publisher.The massive elections reform bill known as the Freed ...
20 Oct, 2021
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Should Election Day Be A National Holiday?
The Freedom to Vote Act, which would make a number of major changes to election law in the United States, is could come up for a vote soon. The bill includes a number of provisions, including a ban on ...
18 Oct, 2021
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Meet The Honorees of the 20th Annual Anti-Corruption Awards
Independent voters are having a moment. The pro-voter reform movement is having a moment. And, the nonpartisan group Independent Voting is hosting a virtual event to celebrate this moment.On October 2 ...
12 Oct, 2021
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Andrew Yang Says Goodbye to the Democratic Party
After 26 years as a registered Democrat, Andrew Yang has announced he is breaking up with the party. Yang published a statement Monday that says he wants to be a catalyst for change and advancement in ...
04 Oct, 2021
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California Permanently Adopts Universal Vote-by-Mail, But Ignores Bigger Voting Rights Problem
California is now the largest state to permanently adopt universal mail-in ballot distribution. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the measure into law Monday. While it goes a long way to increase voter par ...
28 Sep, 2021
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No Order in the Court
On September 6, 2021, Alan Braid, a seventy-six-year-old OBGYN in San Antonio, Texas, performed an abortion on a woman in her first trimester. A few years ago, this procedure would have attracted litt ...
22 Sep, 2021
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All Aboard The Freedom to Vote Act Train
It’s January 2021, there’s a new president in D.C., a new Senate majority and a Democratic majority crowing about how voting rights is their top priority, even making the For the People Act their firs ...
22 Sep, 2021
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Statewide Coalition Launches to Bring Ranked Choice Voting to California
Could ranked choice voting soon come to the nation’s most populous state? That is the goal of a new coalition that officially launched on Tuesday, September 21.The California RCV Coalition introduced ...
22 Sep, 2021
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Can Andrew Yang's New Party Break Through The Two-Party Duopoly?
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.The Republican and Democratic parties have dominated politics f ...
14 Sep, 2021
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A Court of the Inquisition
On September 1, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, refused to prevent new, draconian Texas abortion legislation from taking effect. The Court’s tentative acceptance of that law, ...
14 Sep, 2021
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