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Meet The Newest Senate Candidate Taking on The Two-Party Establishment
"The path to a bloc of independents in the Senate Tuesday in Maryland."That’s how POLITICO’s Isaac Dovere’s reported on businessman Neal Simon’s official announcement to run for U.S. Senate ...
07 Feb, 2018
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Anti-Corruption Leader Discusses Secret to Unrigging the System
Josh Silver is the founder and director of Represent.us, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to ending political corruption in America. He was also the man in charge of the Unrig the Syste ...
07 Feb, 2018
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New Tech to Save Democracy: The VoteMatrix Platform
If you’ve ever filled out a ballot, you already know how difficult it can be to find accurate information. Thoroughly researching the candidates and measures for even one election can take days. The i ...
07 Feb, 2018
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Unrig the System Summit Provides Hope for America in 2018
Remember 2017? I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that the country was in somewhat of a challenging place. People were angry, sad, frustrated. Those on the left were upset either because they felt the ...
06 Feb, 2018
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Independent Bob Krist Fights Back Against One of the Worst Ballot Access Laws in America
Welcome to one of our weekly posts, Independent Action, where we let you know the important moves independent candidates and organizations made over the past week. This week we will be discussing Greg ...
06 Feb, 2018
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2 min read
Facebook Alert: 3 Things to Know About Big Data vs. Democracy
Business is booming for big data markets.Consider Facebook. It’s usage may have dived in the fourth quarter, but the social media behemoth still pulled in $12.97 billion. Compare that to $8.81 bi ...
05 Feb, 2018
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4 min read
LISTEN: Libertarian Larry Sharpe Steps to Governor Andrew Cuomo In Battle For New York
In the New York governor’s race, Larry Sharpe is ahead of the Republicans in fundraising.He says he’s shaping the 3.0 version of the Libertarian Party and that it’s totally possible to take Democratic ...
02 Feb, 2018
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With Another Shutdown Looming, Trump Doubles Down on Defense
In his first State of the Union address, President Trump praised members of the military while calling for an increased defense budget in the face of another government shutdown. The continuing resolu ...
02 Feb, 2018
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IVN Gets Ready to Unrig the System
An unprecedented gathering of the brightest minds from the right and left with one common purpose: fix American politics. Leaders in advocacy, policy, politics, legal, movement-building, and popular c ...
01 Feb, 2018
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Are We Witnessing the Cutting Edge of Voting Reform?
The Equal Vote Coalition is proposing an innovative new voting system that its leaders say will not only revolutionize the way we conduct elections, but will provide the fixes we need for a clearly ...
01 Feb, 2018
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