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American Promise: Fighting for a 28th Amendment
American Promise: Fighting for a 28th Amendment
We’ve all heard there’s a need to get money out of politics. But what’s not discussed as often are the details of how to go about doing so.Enter the 28th amendment. In the past few years, a movement h ...
11 Jul, 2017
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Marijuana Legalization Is Decreasing Violent Crime in Border States
Marijuana Legalization Is Decreasing Violent Crime in Border States
In a paper published by The Economic Journal last month, a study by the Norwegian School of Economics in partnership with the Pennsylvania State University Department of Sociology and Criminology, fou ...
06 Jul, 2017
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Recreational Marijuana is Now Officially Legal in Nevada
Recreational Marijuana is Now Officially Legal in Nevada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Cn1zB7610Nevada became the fifth state in the nation -- joining Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington -- to legalize the use and sale of recreational mar ...
03 Jul, 2017
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White House, States Fight over Your Personal Voter Data
White House, States Fight over Your Personal Voter Data
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who serves as vice-chair of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity, sent a letter to every secretary of state in the US this week asking them ...
30 Jun, 2017
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A Bipartisan No: Governors Say Healthcare Reform Needs Work
A Bipartisan No: Governors Say Healthcare Reform Needs Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ei68aCWupY&t=0m27sThe efforts by a group of Senate Republicans to craft the repeal of Obamacare has come up woefully short, and it not acceptable. So say a group of ...
28 Jun, 2017
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Efficiency Gap: The Greatest Weapon to Fight Partisan Gerrymandering
Efficiency Gap: The Greatest Weapon to Fight Partisan Gerrymandering
The fight against gerrymandering nationwide is taking a new turn. Courts are no longer just looking at discrimination based on race, sex, or class, but political discrimination and partisan motives to ...
26 Jun, 2017
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5 Things You Missed This Week In Nonpartisan Election News
5 Things You Missed This Week In Nonpartisan Election News
From the media blackout of a DNC lawsuit to open primaries to term limits and more, here are 5 things you may have missed in nonpartisan political and election news.1. Media Blackout of DNC ...
19 May, 2017
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Colorado One Step Closer to Implementing Open Primaries
Colorado One Step Closer to Implementing Open Primaries
On Monday, the Colorado State Senate approved SB 305, a bill that guides the secretary of state on how to write the rules for the state's open primary system, approved by voters under Propos ...
09 May, 2017
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Congress Effectively Legalizes Medical Marijuana at the Federal Level
Congress Effectively Legalizes Medical Marijuana at the Federal Level
Last week, Congress avoided a government shutdown by agreeing to a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded for another week.Then over the weekend, US lawmakers agreed to a deal tha ...
04 May, 2017
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Debriefing Democracy: 5 Takeaways in Nonpartisan News This Week
Debriefing Democracy: 5 Takeaways in Nonpartisan News This Week
From the ongoing legal battle against the Commission on Presidential Debates to taking nonpartisan election reform to the nation's largest battleground state, here are 5 key stories on election and po ...
21 Apr, 2017
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