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Admit It, Dems: You Don't Want to Win in 2020
The knock from Republicans, Never-Trumpers and moderate Dems is that most of the 2020 candidates are too far to the left and out of touch. Last week’s display confirmed it. This was a definitive example of a party controlled by its fringe elements, preferring purity over victory.
18 Sep, 2019
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4 min read
Admit It, Dems: You Don't Want to Win in 2020
If Democratic Party leaders aren’t re-watching last week’s debate in Houston, they should. If they have watched it and aren’t freaking out over what they see, it’s fair to ask whether they actua ...
18 Sep, 2019
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The U.S. Open and Open Politics
The corruption of American politics is deep and stifling and it is producing levels of alienation and antagonism that are frightening.
11 Sep, 2019
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6 min read
4 Important Take Aways from the IVN 2020 Presidential Survey
Last week, we asked the IVN Facebook audience to tell us who they would be willing to support in the 2020 presidential election. The survey, which represents the views individual members of our a ...
04 Sep, 2019
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6 min read
Giving Millions of Citizens A Better Way To Vote
New York City voters could soon adopt a fairer, more empowering, and more representative voting method in November, while other states look to join Maine in making history with ranked choice voting in ...
04 Sep, 2019
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1 min read
OPINION: Corporate Citizenship Starts with not Undermining Our Democracy
When a Facebook post launched a mass movement to stop self-serving legislators from drawing their own districts in Michigan in 2018, organizers knew they would face stiff opposition from incumbents be ...
26 Aug, 2019
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3 min read
Newsletter: Have You Heard About "UnRig it"?
Political insiders know what more and more voters are finally waking up to: the political “game” is rigged by both sides.From “member communications,” to gerrymandering, to systematic attempts to keep ...
22 Aug, 2019
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3 min read
6 Big Fights Against Voter Suppression That Neither Party Wants You To Know About
There is one important truth about the state of US politics, and that is an increasing number of Americans understand that the system is rigged to put the interests of two private political parties an ...
21 Aug, 2019
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15 min read
Bad Solutions and No Solutions: The Two-Party Failure on Gun Violence
Referencing events in El Paso and Dayton a week ago, the editors of The Lives of Guns, commented via Politico, “The two mass shootings this weekend have inflamed a gun-control debate that never seems ...
12 Aug, 2019
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Mass. Voters May Get Ranked Choice Voting on the 2020 Ballot
Voter Choice Massachusetts is proposing a ballot initiative to implement ranked choice voting statewide. The group has filed language with the state attorney general ahead of Wednesday's deadline.Inde ...
09 Aug, 2019
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1 min read