Video: The Role of Business in the Democracy Reform Movement
Corporations don't vote in elections, but they have a big impact on our democracy and society, for better or worse. Four business leaders from American Promise's National Business Network discuss how...
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The next attack on the Affordable Care Act may cost you free preventive...
Originally published by The ConversationMany Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court left the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in place following its third major legal challenge in June...
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Gov. Abbott signs Texas elections overhaul into law, and the voting rights...
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law the GOP-backed package overhauling Texas' elections, solidifying some of the most severe limits to voting access proposed this year.The Texas GOP's efforts...
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Benjamin Franklin's last letter
Hamilton is a global fellow with the Wilson Center. Kosar is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. They are the authors of the research report "Government Information and...
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Democrats revive election reform with compromise bill, but filibuster still...
After the For the People Act was blocked by a Republican filibuster in June, Senate Democrats began forging a new path forward for their voting and election reform priorities.Amy Klobuchar of...
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15 federal watchdog roles remain vacant, hindering government function
Inspectors general help make government function more efficiently and effectively, but more than a dozen of those independent watchdog offices lack permanent leadership. President Biden announced last...
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What does censure mean?
For the first time in more than a decade, the House of Representatives censured one of its members Wednesday. While the rarely used action does not include expulsion, Rep. Paul Gosar faces other...
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Watching the Jan. 6 hearings through the lens of both accountability and healing
Roig is the chief network weaver at The Horizons Project and the chair of the board of the Alliance for Peacebuilding. “How did we get to this point?” That’s how the third day of the Jan. 6, 2021,...
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America needs a Declaration of Independents
Goldstone’s most recent book is "On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights."Whether one watches Fox News or MSNBC, reads The New York...
View ArticleRepresentUs marks 10 years and 161 wins with plans for more
While the democracy reform and depolarization movement is considered a young, emerging force in American politics, some organizations have established deep roots and can point to a record of...
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Report: Party control over election certification poses risks to the future...
Griffiths is the national editor of Independent Voter News, where a version of this story first appeared.Partisan machinations have increasingly shaken the faith in the integrity of the election...
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Loyal opposition
Goldstone is the author of the forthcoming "Not White Enough: The Long Shameful Road to Japanese American Internment."On November 8, 2022, in a major Republican upset, a relative political newcomer...
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A different kind of assault on the Capitol
Two years ago, extremists attacked the physical citadel of democracy. Today, extremists are assaulting the institutional pillars of Congress, in an offensive that could inflict even more lasting...
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No one asked for a pro-corruption Congress
Fothergill is the RepresentUs Deputy Mobilization Director.Each new Congress represents an opportunity for our elected officials to show that they can make life better for the American people. While...
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Blowback: A warning to save democracy from the next Trump
David Nevins is co-publisher of The Fulcrum and co-founder and board chairman of the Bridge Alliance Education Fund.Miles Taylor is best known for writing a 2018 New York Times op-ed titled “I Am Part...
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It had to be this bad
Goldstone’s latest book is “Not White Enough: The Long, Shameful Road to Japanese American Internment.” Learn more at www.lawrencegoldstone.com.Well, Donald Trump was not accused of standing in the...
View ArticleVideo: Trump legal hole may be too deep to plead his way out, former Agnew...
Ron Liebman, former assistant U.S. attorney who served on the team that prosecuted former Vice President Spiro Agnew, talks with Rachel Maddow about parallels between the Agnew and Trump cases and why...
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Your Take: Judges and impartiality
Earlier this week we asked the following questions of our Bridge Alliance, Coffee Party and Fulcrum communities regarding troubling ethics considerations in the case against former President Trump:Is...
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Why we broke tradition to honor the people of Ukraine
L.F. Payne, a Democrat, represented Virginia’s 5th Congressional District from 1988-1997. He currently serves as President of the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress (FMC).Barbara Comstock,...
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Ban on stock trading for members of Congress favored by overwhelming...
Kull is Program Director of the Program for Public Consultation.Thomas is Vice President of Voice of the People and Director of Voice of the People Action. Thomas is an organizer and government...
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