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Free My Voice: Primary Elections Should Serve Voters, Not Parties
Like a lot of Missouri voters, I’m beyond angry at our recent divisive presidential election and scandal-plagued state legislature. It’s time to vent that anger at the real culprit: an election system...
44 States Stand Up to the White House? Not Quite...
The biggest headline this week on President Donald Trump's election integrity commission is that 44 states plus DC have partly or fully rejected the commission's request for a broad array of personal ...
Marijuana Legalization Is Decreasing Violent Crime in Border States
In a paper published by The Economic Journal last month, a study by the Norwegian School of Economics in partnership with the Pennsylvania State University Department of Sociology and Criminology, fou...
Libertarian Takeover: More Lawmakers Are Ditching The Major Parties
Getting elected as a third-party candidate is no easy feat in the United States.In fact, the deck is so stacked against alternative candidates — courtesy of gerrymandered voting districts that favor o...
4 Facts for Your Fourth: What You May Not Know About America's Birthday
The Fourth of July is here and Americans across the country will celebrate the nation's birthday with fireworks, picnics, trips out of town or to the beach, barbecue, concerts and countless other ways...
Recreational Marijuana is Now Officially Legal in Nevada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Cn1zB7610Nevada became the fifth state in the nation -- joining Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington -- to legalize the use and sale of recreational mar...
Leaky San Diego: "America's Finest City" Mirroring DC
https://twitter.com/acbowen/status/880575437432160257San Diego, CALIF. - The eighth largest city in America is no stranger to political scandals.From Enron by the Sea, to the sudden resignat...
US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to "Open Our Democracy"
A bill re-introduced in the US House wants to open the electoral process for non-presidential federal elections, give voters more opportunities to vote, and reform the way electoral districts are redr...
Assange: Dems Must Reinvent Party Or Die
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outlined a list of six reasons "Why the Democratic Party is doomed" earlier this week, and in the process, spelled doom for all political partisanship.Some of the reas...
Fixing America's Broken Political System Begins with Opening the Primaries
DC politics has gone mad.Americans are now treated to a 24/7 freak show of government dysfunction, charges and countercharges, midnight tweets, and a myriad of other forms of dystopian political theat...