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5 Ways Common Cause Defended Democracy in the First Trump Administration
Here’s just a few examples of how members like you made a positive impact during the first Trump Administration.
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60 Minuten: Was passierte, als russische Hacker die US-Wahlinfrastruktur angriffen
Bill Whitaker von 60 Minutes nimmt uns mit zu dem unscheinbaren Einkaufszentrum in Springfield, Illinois, wo im vergangenen Jahr die ersten Schüsse aus Russland abgefeuert wurden. Mittlerweile wird dies von fast allen, außer Präsident Trump, als andauernder Cyberangriff auf unsere Demokratie verstanden.
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Vereint Amerika im Kampf gegen Hass
Während sich heute eine Randgruppe hasserfüllter Rassisten vor dem Weißen Haus zu „Unite the Right 2“ versammelt, sollten wir uns daran erinnern, dass viele Amerikaner ihre Botschaft und die Gewalt, die sie letztes Jahr in Charlottesville auslöste, ablehnten. Amerikas Kampf mit der Rasse geht weiter, und in Momenten wie diesen ist es wichtig, Zeuge der Heilung zu werden, die uns weiterhin vorantreibt, die Lösungen zu finden, die wir brauchen, aber auch des Schmerzes, den einige wenige so vielen zufügen.
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Automatic Voter Registration Works…And Here Is The Evidence To Prove It
Voting is one of the fundamental ways Americans can make their voices heard in our democracy. But too often, the process of registering to vote can be tricky, confusing, and complicated. That’s one of the reasons why Common Cause has a nationwide campaign to push for a new innovative reform to make the process of voter registration more convenient and secure. It’s called automatic voter registration (AVR).
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Gerrymander Gazette: Midwest – 2, Gerrymandering – 0
Redistricting reformers scored big wins in Michigan and Missouri last week.
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Two Hours with Putin vs. 30 Minutes on Election Security
In a tale of two meetings, President Trump met recently with Vladimir Putin for two hours with no one but a translator and still has provided no read-out of the meeting to his top national security advisors. By contrast he met with those top advisors today for thirty minutes about protecting our elections from Russian interference. Whose side is he on?
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Small Dollar Donor Laws Continue to Win Coast-to-Coast
Hedrick Smith is an award-winning journalist whose documentary, The People vs. The Politicians, will air on MSNBC this fall helping to tell the good news of the growing people's movement to preserve our voices and votes in our democracy.
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Das Weiße Haus hat das Helsinki-Transkript nicht korrigiert
Der Atlantic hat es sofort zur Kenntnis genommen; der Rest der Medienwelt holt auf, nachdem Rachel Maddow gestern Abend Bedenken geäußert hatte, dass das Weiße Haus eine Woche später das offizielle Transkript der Putin-Trump-Pressekonferenz in Helsinki nicht dahingehend korrigiert habe, dass die vollständige Frage von Jeff Mason enthalten sei.
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The Presidential Oath of Office and Helsinki
On January 21, 2017, Donald John Trump raised his right hand and, with just the hint of a smile of self-vindication, took an oath “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.” “We the People,” the Constitution begins, and its foundation stone is the right of the People to elect our leaders through the free exercise of elections without the interference of any foreign power.
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Russian Threats Continue as Fund to Help States Runs Out
Twenty-one state attorneys general, both Democrats and Republicans, wrote a letter asking for more money for voting infrastructure and election integrity efforts.
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Democracy Download: Week of July 23, 2018
Democracy Download is an every-other-weekly round-up of democracy-related events from across the ideological spectrum. These events are based in Washington, D.C., but many can be seen on C-Span or live-streamed on Facebook Live or other online venues. Check links for more information.
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Democracy Counts Newsletter, July 2018
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Democracy Counts, a monthly publication to update advocates, media, and interested persons on the latest census news, provide resources for advocates, and connect the census to issues you care about.
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Under Assault: Media Mergers Leave Voters and Consumers Out
Americans rely on a free, diverse, and independent media for the information they need to make informed decisions at election time. But every week brings more bad news for those of us who worry that our communications ecosystem is being pushed to the point of collapse. It’s not that we ever had a perfect communications world—far from it—but what we had at least provided a foundation upon which the diverse voices of democracy could contend and build.
