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WGCU (NPR): Gulf Coast Live: Meet the new Executive Director of Common Cause Florida, a nonpartisan nonprofit that works to uphold the core values of American democracy
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Colorado Newsline (Op-Ed): To protect our democracy, Donald Trump must be barred from the Colorado ballot
Specifically, Common Cause’s amicus brief urges that the Court affirm the findings of the District Court that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection against the Constitution of the United States, and that the Court reverse...
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Daily Beast: ‘Absurd’: As 2024 Looms, Counties Won’t Update Voting Tech
“It’s all part of this broader narrative that election workers are conspiring against voters, and that voting machines cannot be trusted,” Steiner noted.
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Santa Fe New Mexican (Editorial): Increase the alcohol tax and save lives: It’s that simple
In 2023 alone, liquor lobbyists spent $74,968 on entertaining and wining and dining legislators,...
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KUNM (NPR): Advocates for drawing fairer voting maps will try again to take the job away from NM lawmakers
“The Legislature is always going to fall into the trap of having the majority party draw the map that they like to maximize their influence,” she said.
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Detroit Free Press: Whitmer signs bills implementing Proposal 1
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PolitiFact – Half True: Wisconsin Republicans are backing “a nonpartisan redistricting plan based off the Iowa Model. … Republicans, Democrats, and the Governor pushed this plan last time redistricting happened in 2020.”
"The short answer is that very few Republicans and certainly not Tusler ever supported any version of the Iowa model legislation before Sept. 11, 2023 -- the date Robin Vos announced his plan," Heck told PolitiFact Wisconsin.
Common Cause is a nonpartisan national group with state chapters devoted to fighting for reforms to gerrymandering, political spending and other issues.
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Reuters: Voter advocates, conservative activists brace for 2024 election showdowns
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National Voting in Prison Coalition Praises the Landmark Introduction of Inclusive Democracy Act of 2023
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Inclusive Democracy Act Would End Felony Disenfranchisement
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Denver Post: Will Trump be on Colorado’s 2024 ballot? State Supreme Court takes on the case
The filing from Common Cause, a government watchdog group, called it “a great credit to prior generations of American political leaders” that the disqualification clause of the Constitution had so rarely been invoked — but argued this case rose to that standard.
“The fact...
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The Hill’s Top Lobbyists 2023
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