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OPINION: Corporate Citizenship Starts with not Undermining Our Democracy
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"?
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
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
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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8 min read
Mass. Voters May Get Ranked Choice Voting on the 2020 Ballot
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
Disappointing, But Not Unexpected: Court Leaves Gerrymandering Reform to States; So Let’s Get to Work
Disappointing, But Not Unexpected: Court Leaves Gerrymandering Reform to States; So Let’s Get to Work
The Supreme Court’s decision to punt on partisan gerrymandering (RUCHO ET AL. v. COMMON CAUSE ET AL.) was discouraging for many in the electoral reform movement, but really should not have come as a s ...
01 Aug, 2019
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4 min read
Lawsuit FILED: Voters v. California Secretary of State
Lawsuit FILED: Voters v. California Secretary of State
“No taxation without representation.”That was the battle cry for Freedom that fueled the American revolution.Yet, today, the interests of private political parties are put ahead of “We, the People.” T ...
25 Jul, 2019
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2 min read
Study: Politicians Don't Really Care What Voters Want... Because They Don't Have To
Study: Politicians Don't Really Care What Voters Want... Because They Don't Have To
Do you remember the old Schoolhouse Rock segment about how a bill becomes a law? The first step, according to the bill, is that constituents come together in support of new legislation, they call thei ...
19 Jul, 2019
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4 min read
Long Live the Crackpots!
Long Live the Crackpots!
I first heard the news that Ross Perot had died last Tuesday afternoon and it didn’t take long for the major media obituaries to appear. In public life in America, your obituary is written long before ...
17 Jul, 2019
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3 min read
7 Reasons Why Independent Presidential Debates Will Save America in 2020
7 Reasons Why Independent Presidential Debates Will Save America in 2020
Independent and third party candidates more often than conventional candidates clearly identify America’s core challenges, pains and crises. They sometimes present well-considered solutions, though th ...
15 Jul, 2019
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5 min read