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UnRig It: "There's Something Rotten in Denmark!"
UnRig It: "There's Something Rotten in Denmark!"
NANR's Executive Director interviews two guests this month. First up, John Opdycke, President of Open Primaries, activist and strategist with more than 25 years of experience working in independent, a ...
18 Sep, 2019
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UnRig It: "There's Something Rotten in Denmark!"
UnRig It: "There's Something Rotten in Denmark!"
The system is rigged against voters at every institutional level, but the reform movement is building momentum going into 2020 and beyond.
18 Sep, 2019
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DNC Debate Exclusions Are Arbitrary and Anti-Democratic
DNC Debate Exclusions Are Arbitrary and Anti-Democratic
Detroit, MI – Increasing uproar over the Democratic Party’s arbitrary debate exclusions reveals questions about the party’s democratic values.Out of 25 major candidates vying to be the Democratic nomi ...
23 Jul, 2019
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Maine Legislature Passes Ranked Choice Voting Bill... Then Takes It Back?
Maine Legislature Passes Ranked Choice Voting Bill... Then Takes It Back?
Update: Despite passing with strong majorities in both chambers of the legislature, it has come to my attention that the ranked choice voting bill in Maine did not make its way to the governor's desk. ...
19 Jun, 2019
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ME Legislature Passes Ranked Choice Voting for President... Then Takes It Back?
ME Legislature Passes Ranked Choice Voting for President... Then Takes It Back?
Update: Despite passing with strong majorities in both chambers of the legislature, it has come to my attention that the ranked choice voting bill in Maine did not make its way to the governor’s desk. ...
19 Jun, 2019
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6 Legislative Efforts to Protect YOUR Right to Vote
6 Legislative Efforts to Protect YOUR Right to Vote
The biggest story happening right now nationwide that is not getting any attention from the mainstream media are the campaigns, ballot proposals, signature drives, and legislative efforts going on RIG ...
28 May, 2019
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2020 and Beyond: The View from County Road T
2020 and Beyond: The View from County Road T
For the last several years, I’ve been spending time in rural Wisconsin in a small farmhouse set on 130 heavily-wooded acres on County Road T, Polk County. This is the northwestern Wisconsin of hardscr ...
15 May, 2019
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There's A Deeper Systemic Problem in the College Admissions Scandal No One Is Talking About
There's A Deeper Systemic Problem in the College Admissions Scandal No One Is Talking About
Surely you have heard of the "Varsity Blues" scandal, in which the rich and famous purchased "side door" entries to elite colleges for their children with mediocre academic and athletic skills.There w ...
04 Apr, 2019
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4 min read
Betrayed and Outraged: Winning The Rural Vote In Today's Political Climate
Betrayed and Outraged: Winning The Rural Vote In Today's Political Climate
Let’s just call everything outside major urban centers, the rural vote. Betrayed by politicians of every political party, left out of every agriculture-related policy decision in every government agen ...
19 Mar, 2019
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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