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Congress Is Back In Session, But It Needs to Get to Work
The holidays are over and it’s back to reality. Of course, part of that reality — for better or worse — if that the politicians have made their way back to Washington, DC.To be clear, I am not suggest ...
08 Jan, 2018
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50 Reasons to Bail Out of the Two-Party System and Become an Independent Voter
1. The two-party system came into existence at a time when people were still writing on paper with feathers dipped in ink.2. And partisanship is as antiquated as that practice because we have better w ...
08 Jan, 2018
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9 min read
New Party, New Revolution? Let's Break the Two-Party Duopoly
If you are like me, you have had enough of just about everything that America’s current political system represents, such as institutionalized and legalized corruption, nepotism, and ‘career’ politici ...
05 Jan, 2018
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4 min read
Meet the VA Delegate Who Wants to Give Voters Direct Democracy and Nonpartisan Primaries
Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul is no stranger to election reform. He has championed a number of legislative efforts to improve elections in the past, and has introduced a new package of election reforms ...
05 Jan, 2018
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Anti-Corruption Leader Says 2018 Is Big Year to Unrig the System
T.J. O'Hara is joined by Josh Silver.Josh is a veteran election and media reform executive. He was the campaign manager for the successful 1998 Arizona Clean Elections ballot initiative, and is the co ...
03 Jan, 2018
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Blue States Go to War with Washington over GOP Tax Bill
In the wake of the Republican tax reform bill, which has been hailed by supporters as the most significant revision to the federal tax code in 30 years, many Democratic states and city governments are ...
02 Jan, 2018
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4 min read
A New Countdown: Midterm Money Is Rolling In
The countdown to 2018 has finished and Washington has snapped its head in the direction of another countdown: the mid-term elections in November.In just eleven months, the balance of power can be easi ...
02 Jan, 2018
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5 min read
Truth Is, Republican and Democratic Politicians Don't Really Care About Taxpayers
In the last week of 2017, the Washington Post published an article highlighting perhaps the biggest winner from the the new GOP tax plan: accountants.The bill’s passage on partisan lines, along with t ...
02 Jan, 2018
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5 min read
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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Beyond the Partisan Headlines: The Top 10 IVN Articles of 2017
Say what you want about 2017, it wasn't the slow and boring year in politics many politicos would have otherwise expected from an odd year -- a year that falls between presidential and midterm electio ...
28 Dec, 2017
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8 min read