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As reports slowly trickle in disclosing the money spent the week leading up to 2012’s presidential election, the identities of the spenders are coming into focus. Yet, even the most avid researcher won’t see the whole picture given current campaign finance disclosure requirements. California Senate Bill 52 was introduced yesterday in response to $11 million that was allegedly laundered through nonprofit organizations in Arizona to affect California propositions 30 and 32. According to the Fair

After the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday, the national discussion on gun policy in the United States was given new life. Whenever the debate over guns in America is revived, the Second Amendment of the Constitution makes its way to the forefront of the discussion. The Second Amendment reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” When the subject of firearms

Credit: No Labels On January 14, 2013, the nonpartisan grassroots movement, No Labels, is hosting a conference in New York City called the Meeting to Make America Work. The purpose of the event is to bring together thousands of citizens, influential voices, and elected officials from across the United States to discuss solutions to the biggest problems facing the nation. No Labels is committed to the proposition that our elected officials need to look past the “old politics of point-scoring” a

Credit: No Labels On January 14, 2013, the nonpartisan grassroots movement, No Labels, is hosting a conference in New York City called the Meeting to Make America Work. The purpose of the event is to bring together thousands of citizens, influential voices, and elected officials from across the United States to discuss solutions to the biggest problems facing the nation. No Labels is committed to the proposition that our elected officials need to look past the “old politics of point-scoring” a

This year has been turbulent with gun related homicides; highlighted by the killing sprees in Aurora, Colorado, the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and now the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. However, arguably more striking is the staggering number of shootings in Chicago this year, which is on course to reach 3,000 before the year’s end. Yet, reforming the nation’s gun policy is considered a taboo topic in Washington, DC. This was exampled during this year’s second presidential

Provided by "Money Out of Politics" Credit: policymic.com In a stunning unanimous vote on Tuesday, the San Diego City Council supported a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and limit the power of money in politics. The vote was 8-0 with one absent councilmember not voting. The resolution asks Congress to begin the process to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission “so that the expenditure of corp

Photo: Official White House Photo // Pete Souza The White House held its annual Tribal Nations Conference yesterday at the Department of Interior in Washington, D.C. The President welcomed representatives from 566 federally recognized tribes to address concerns specific to America’s native communities. Native Americans make up just over 1 percent of the US population, but have significantly higher rates of poverty and unemployment than the national average. Poverty, domestic abuse, and health

IRS Building in Washington DC // Credit: Wikimedia Commons As lawmakers broil and simmer over budget reform, many Americans are primarily concerned as to whether or not their tax obligations will go up in 2013. One possible contributor to higher taxes for middle class Americans is the alternative minimum income tax, or AMT. The alternative minimum tax, introduced in 1969 and modernized in 1982, was intended to ensure that the wealthy, who had been abusing tax loopholes and deductions for decad

Photo: Steve Rhodes The regulation of the Internet is increasingly under scrutiny as matters of cybersecurity, intellectual property, and telecommunication development grow ever more complex. Although each issue remains distinct in nature, they are unquestionably intertwined in conversation and origin: freedom. Early in 2012, controversy erupted over two bills, one in the House and one in the Senate, SOPA and PIPA, respectively. The bills sought to limit pirating and regulate the sharing of in

Photo: U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs On October 4, a small group of American veterans went to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, D.C., to talk to officials there about veteran suicides, veteran homelessness, veteran joblessness, and other veteran struggles. No one from the department would talk to them then. Even the contingent of Homeland Security guards blocking the door on October 4 wouldn’t explain to the veterans why they couldn’t come in. So, they stayed on