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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 minutos: qué pasó cuando los piratas informáticos rusos atacaron la infraestructura electoral de EE. UU.
Bill Whitaker de 60 Minutes nos lleva al anodino centro comercial de Springfield, Illinois, donde el año pasado Rusia disparó los primeros tiros en lo que ahora es ampliamente entendido, por casi todos excepto el presidente Trump, como un ciberataque en curso a nuestra democracia.
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Unir a Estados Unidos en la oposición al odio
Mientras un grupo marginal de racistas llenos de odio se reúne hoy frente a la Casa Blanca para el evento "Unite the Right 2", debemos recordar que muchos estadounidenses rechazaron su mensaje y la violencia que inspiró en Charlottesville el año pasado. La lucha de Estados Unidos contra la raza continúa y en momentos como este es importante presenciar la sanación que continúa impulsándonos hacia las soluciones que necesitamos, así como el dolor que unos pocos causan a muchos.
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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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La Casa Blanca no ha corregido la transcripción de Helsinki
The Atlantic lo notó de inmediato y el resto del mundo de los medios se está poniendo al día después de que Rachel Maddow expresara anoche su preocupación por el hecho de que una semana después la Casa Blanca no ha corregido la transcripción oficial de la conferencia de prensa de Putin y Trump en Helsinki para incluir la pregunta completa de Jeff Mason.
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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.
