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The Great Border Security Myth Both Parties Keep Alive
In 2016, Donald Trump ignited the imaginations of a vocal and politically-potent-in-Republican-primaries minority of American voters with a promise to build a big beautiful Wall across our border with ...
23 Jan, 2018
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Vermont Governor Signs Historic Marijuana Legalization Bill
Vermont is the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana legislativelyMarijuana will be legal in nine states and the nation’s capital when Vermont law takes effec ...
22 Jan, 2018
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Broad Coalition of National Election Reform Groups Unite to Challenge Two-Party Duopoly
To focus the combined strengths, skills, and experience of some of the nation’s leading election reform organizations toward increasing voter participation and electoral competition, a prominent group ...
22 Jan, 2018
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Can We Shut Down the Two-Party System?
Update: The Senate voted Monday to reopen the government, and extend funding until February 8, setting up yet another potential shutdown fight. The recent government shutdown is only the latest m ...
22 Jan, 2018
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Dear Senator Flake, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has made the headlines seemingly every week since his spat with President Trump back in 2017, and since then, it has been a war of words:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/s ...
18 Jan, 2018
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Gerrymandering: Two Bullies vs. The Voters
All eyes in political reform circles are on the Wisconsin gerrymandering case (Gill v. Whitford) argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on October 3, 2017.The case was brought by a group of Democrats ch ...
15 Jan, 2018
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8 Common Sense Solutions to Immigration That Go Beyond Two-Party Politics
As with many issues today, the debate on immigration is mired in partisan opposition instead of pragmatism. At one time, nearly everyone agreed that illegal immigration was a problem, but now one side ...
09 Jan, 2018
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In a Nation Full of Independents, Why Do Independent Voters Get So Much Hate?
Our last election was disappointing, to say the least. I say this not necessarily from one political camp or the other, but because the majority of Americans seem to agree with this sentiment.Those of ...
05 Jan, 2018
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Trump Can Pass DACA and Build a Wall -- Just Not a Real One
As part of his campaign platform, then-candidate Trump called for a litany of immigration reforms, including his trademark cry for a “beautiful” wall along the US-Mexico border.Trump’s campaign, howev ...
04 Jan, 2018
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The 7 Most Partisan News Stories of 2017
American voters who have remained in the two-party system are more partisan than ever before and they're saying so in public opinion polls every year:"Surveys over time have used a 100-point thermomet ...
29 Dec, 2017
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