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In an interview at the World Economic Forum earlier this year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said his company is not only committed to but always believes that "Data always belongs to the user and as companies we are only stewards of it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R-oTS1KOT8 The comments come as the tech giant is funding opposition to the California Consumer Privacy Act. If approved, the California Consumer Privacy Act would enforce more transparency over data stored by companies, and give

Welcome to our weekly post, Independent Action, where we let you know the important moves Independent candidates and organizations made over the past week. Governor Bill Walker of Alaska passed HB339, a bill “that gives parents and teachers certainty that Alaska schools will be funded every year.” You can find his full statement on the passing of the bill below. https://twitter.com/AkGovBillWalker/status/985316287243931648 Craig O’Dear, an Independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, re

Editor's Note: The following article was written by Dr. Lynn S. Kahn and Cindy Peak, president of Cogent Technologies. “That you and I differ in our ideas of the best form of government is well known to us both:  but we have differed as friends should do: respecting the purity of each other’s motives, and confining our difference of opinion to private conversation.” Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, July 17, 1791. THE CLIMATE CHANGE CONVERSATION Lynn:  I believe what I see, and I

These days there’s a lot going on in the world of independent politics. More to the point, it’s now accurate to say that there is a “world” of independent politics. This is a recent development because, for a long time, the idea that people wanted to be independents, or vote for independents, or run for office as independents, or even think as independents was considered to be a flash-in-the-pan, a form of temporary insanity, unnecessary, or impossible. But an independent movement is taking sha

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - Do you think there is too much foreign influence in government? Is more accountability needed? Well, Alaskan voters are doing something about it. The nonpartisan group, Alaskans for Integrity, is sponsoring an initiative for the 2018 ballot that would limit lawmakers' pay when they fail to pass a budget on time, restrict lobbyist gifts to politicians, increase protections against foreign influence on elections, and strengthen conflict of interest rules. The group announced

We are only three months into 2018, but already big things are happening within the independent movement -- especially in Colorado. Unite America (formerly the Centrist Project) recently launched with an ambitious goal: to elect enough independents to shift the balance of power in several states and in DC away from the Republican and Democratic Parties, and give a voice back to the people. It's an enormous undertaking. The political movement launched with a historic national slate of independe

Unite America, formerly the Centrist Project, announced Tuesday a historic national slate of independent candidates running for governor and US Senate. The 5 candidates on the slate include: * Incumbent Alaska Governor Bill Walker; * Kansas gubernatorial candidate Greg Orman; * Maine gubernatorial candidate Terry Hayes; * Missouri US Senate candidate Craig O'Dear; and * Maryland US Senate candidate Neal Simon “These candidates are the vanguard of a new movement in our politics to bridge

 Another major independent campaign officially announced its launch Thursday. Craig O'Dear, a prominent attorney in Missouri, has officially entered the race for US Senate. "On this tough day for our nation, I am more resolved than ever to chart a new way forward," O'Dear said on his Facebook Page. O'Dear's campaign is founded on a number of core princip

For over a year a group of passionate, committed people have been working to build the infrastructure, grassroots support, and fundraising network to support serious, credible independent candidates for statewide office. We knew there were big barriers for independent candidates but we believed the time was right for America and the numbers were telling that story more and more every day. Some of this had been tried before with little success. It usually failed for one big reason, in my view: l

We are seeing new energy in our campaign to elect independent candidates nationwide. The Associated Press on Thursday featured the Centrist Project's efforts to recruit and support independent candidates in 2018: "Washington infighting breeds new independent candidates." * "Following this week’s government shutdown and the 2016 election, in which both parties nominated historically unpopular candidates, there’s new energy in the movement to reclaim the political center." * "In a Denver co-wo