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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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7 min read
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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3 min read
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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4 min read
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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3 min read
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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6 min read
The Success Story Behind Maine's Adoption of Semi-Open Primaries
Maine has long been at the forefront of political innovation, from the way its ballots are designed, to its clean election funds program, to same-day voter registration and no-excuse absentee voting, ...
13 Sep, 2021
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2 min read
Do California Elections Need Ranked Choice Voting?
Toppling the Duopoly host Shawn Griffiths is joined by Tom Charron, who is representing a new group called the California RCV Coalition (Cal RCV). At a time when ranked choice voting is having a momen ...
10 Sep, 2021
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1 min read
Is the California Recall a Partisan Ploy?
It's easy to empathize with Republicans living in California. For a long time, the state has been dominated by the Democratic Party, and Democrats are quite willing to exercise their influence in self ...
07 Sep, 2021
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4 min read
New Report: Congress' Approach to Public Engagement Stuck in 1970s
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished with permission from the publisher.Ineffective communication between members of Congress and their constituents ...
02 Sep, 2021
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3 min read
CA Recall Election: Should Newsom Stay or Should He Go?
September 14, 2021 is the day California voters decide the fate of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in a special recall election, only the fourth ever held in the US. Absentee ballots were due out by ...
26 Aug, 2021
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2 min read