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Unrig the System: "The Viability of the American Experiment is At Stake"
"If we don't band together to unrig the system, there will not be a country passed to our grandchildren and great-grandchildren..." - Josh Silver, Director of RepresentUsThe largest gathering of nonpa ...
27 Feb, 2019
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7 Monumental Developments in Nonpartisan Reform to Watch in 2019
The 2018 midterms ended up being the biggest year in political and election reform in half a century, yet these efforts to unrig the elections and political process got mostly overlooked by traditiona ...
11 Dec, 2018
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The GOP Is Asking Tennessee's Lawmakers to Close The State's Open Primaries
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Republican Party of Tennessee has asked state lawmakers to change Tennessee's open primary to a closed one for the first time by requiring voters to register with one of the two ...
03 Dec, 2018
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Here is Everywhere Nonpartisan Reform Won Big in 2018
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - The biggest story in the 2018 election cycle was not what color of wave we saw. It was not President Donald Trump using the Ecuadorian immigrant caravan as a campaign issue. It was ...
19 Nov, 2018
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A Libertarian Goes Off On Gov. Phil Bredesen's Facebook Page Over Ballot Access In Tennessee
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Most polls show Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) leading FMR Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) in the 2018 Tennessee Senate race. Bredesen for Senate recently ran a Facebook Ad with a qu ...
26 Oct, 2018
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Jennifer Lawrence Warns Memphis Voters: "You're About to be Blindsided by Your Own Government"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnEzyyssU8AHollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence is warning Memphis voters not to be tricked at the ballot box. Local voters passed laws 10 years ago that implement ranke ...
18 Oct, 2018
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Safer Roads, Bigger Privacy Concerns: A Primer on Self-Driving Cars and Transportation Policy
I. The State of Self-Driving Car Technology and The PossibilitiesIn the 1990 film, Total Recall (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone), the protagonist played by the now former governor of ...
24 Sep, 2018
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A Tribute to Aretha Franklin: The Voice of a People, The Soul of a Movement
Updated on Thursday, August 23, 2018 Aretha Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1942, two years later her family moved to Buffalo, New York and from there to Detroit, Michigan wh ...
17 Aug, 2018
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Republican Revolt Brews Against Trump "Soviet-type" Economic Interventions
Top Senate Republicans have finally had enough of the Trump Administration's economic interventionism in the form of tariffs that effectively raise the price of imported goods for the American consume ...
27 Jul, 2018
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New Survey: Americans Agree These Reforms Are Needed to End Two-Party Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih9Ir0B5uGEAt a briefing on Capitol Hill, the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation presented new public opinion data that shows American v ...
26 Apr, 2018
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