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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
Basketball Battles and Political Scores (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game)
Basketball Battles and Political Scores (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game)
With politics in a permanent state of chaos, we might have to look outside the political sphere to be grounded politically. At least I do. Sports is a good place to turn -- real sports, not the blood ...
10 Apr, 2019
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7 min read
Political Competition a No-Show in 2018 Elections
Political Competition a No-Show in 2018 Elections
The “wave” election swept in a few Democrats, but — like most U.S. elections — rolled over democracy’s basic premise that elections should offer meaningful competition and choices for voters.The newly ...
27 Mar, 2019
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2 min read
GOP, Dems Double Down on Anti-Democratic Policies, But We're Not Having It
GOP, Dems Double Down on Anti-Democratic Policies, But We're Not Having It
In 2017, a groundbreaking Harvard Business School analysis of the U.S. political system exposed the lie that we live in a “two-party system.” Written by business leader Katherine Gehl and the “father ...
25 Mar, 2019
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6 min read
10 Nonpartisan Organizations to Watch in 2020
10 Nonpartisan Organizations to Watch in 2020
There are hundreds, literally hundreds of organizations and individual campaigns working right now to fix the myriad of problems that face our political and electoral processes -- from the local to th ...
15 Mar, 2019
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21 min read
Remembering Pat Caddell: Independently Brilliant
Remembering Pat Caddell: Independently Brilliant
The following piece was co-written by Independent Voting President Jacqueline Salit and Independent Voter Project Attorney Chad Peace, in remembrance of the late Patrick Cadell. Caddell was a broadly- ...
26 Feb, 2019
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6 min read
Debunking the “Spoiler Myth”: Lessons from a Competitive Kansas Independent to Howard Schultz
Debunking the “Spoiler Myth”: Lessons from a Competitive Kansas Independent to Howard Schultz
Since Howard Schultz announced that he was considering running for president as an independent, there has been much speculation about how his potential entry might affect the race in 2020. Specificall ...
26 Feb, 2019
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6 min read
Debunking the "Spoiler Myth": Lessons from a Competitive Kansas Independent to Howard Schultz
Debunking the "Spoiler Myth": Lessons from a Competitive Kansas Independent to Howard Schultz
Since Howard Schultz announced that he was considering running for president as an independent, there has been much speculation about how his potential entry might affect the race in 2020. Specificall ...
25 Feb, 2019
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6 min read
Arkansas vs Georgia: Who Wants the Worst Ballot Access Laws?
Arkansas vs Georgia: Who Wants the Worst Ballot Access Laws?
America's two major political parties may dominate nearly every elected office in the country, but they remain eager to further restrict any competition in several states.What's taking place in Arkans ...
18 Feb, 2019
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3 min read