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Washington Isn’t Broken...It’s Fixed!
Welcome to The Pickle podcast. My ambitions are high. I want to interview political, reform, independent, business, creative, nonprofit, entrepreneurial, and cultural movers and shakers about the pick...
We Won’t Solve Our Gun-Safety Crisis Until We Restore Power to the Powerless
This is a reflective piece more than a data-driven piece. I’m venturing, foolishly perhaps, into a topic that hasn’t traditionally been “one of my issues.”Of course, it’s everybody’s issue to some deg...
3 Lessons Will Decide Fate of Historic Independent Movement
Three lessons for independent and third-party candidates and activists will determine the future of our nation and our shared planet.My position is simple: We are the answer. Our nation and our democr...
Democracy Initiative: Political System, Unions Under Attack by Same Force
Democracy Initiative is a coalition that has 64 member groups representing nearly 40 million workers.Launched in 2013, the Democracy Initiative's website says its fundamental mission is to ensure that...
Why Local Elections Are Now Just As Partisan As National Elections
In a democracy, the people have the power, but only if they choose to wield it. With the mercurial state of America’s representative system in recent elections, it’s becoming clear that more involveme...
Turning Tides at the New Orleans Summit
Sitting in the audience at the Unrig the System Summit in New Orleans two weeks ago, I couldn’t help but feel that a tide was turning. Speaker after speaker at this high energy and well...
EXCLUSIVE: "Charlie vs. Goliath" Director Shocked By What He Discovered in Nation's Reddest State
“It would be hard to find a more unlikely candidate than Charlie Hardy, a 75-year-old penniless former Catholic priest who spent nearly a decade serving the poor while living in a cardboard shack in a...
Is It Time In America for the Surgical Black Box?
“Yes” or “No”?Should it be the patient's right (by law) to have their surgery recorded by audio and video?https://youtu.be/xkFy8VJWP4IDo doctors found guilty of medical malpractice need to be held cri...
FEC Vice Chair: "Pizzagate" Embodies Need for New Online Ad Rules (Exclusive)
Longtime Democratic FEC Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub is the force behind new rules aimed at making online political advertising more transparent.After Russian state agents used social media platfor...
We're Doing It! The Independent Revolution Is Here!
For over a year a group of passionate, committed people have been working to build the infrastructure, grassroots support, and fundraising network to support serious, credible independent candidates f...