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Roll Call on the Democracy for All Amendment
Yea and Nay votes on S. J. Res. 19, the Democracy for All Amendment
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Civil Libertarians Take A Stand for the Right to Be Heard
Former leaders of the ACLU are breaking with that organization to reject Supreme Court rulings that money equals speech
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Municipal Broadband: It’s Your Choice
Municipal broadband is the radical idea that consumers should have choice – and big corporate ISPs will stop at nothing to kill it.
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Labor Day
Common Cause pauses to celebrate Labor Day.
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New ‘Risk Limiting’ Audits Promise More Accurate Vote Counts
Arapahoe County, CO, has successfully tested a new risk limiting audit to verify election returns
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Seven Disturbing Quotes From the Koch Summit Speeches
Today, The Nation and The Huffington Post published speeches from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and 3 other GOP Senate candidates, Rep. Tom Cotton (AR), state Sen. Joni Ernst (IA), and Rep. Cory Gardner (CO), at a secretive donor summit hosted in June by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.
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Top Five Takeaways From the Latest “John Doe” Documents in Walker Probe
Newly released documents suggest Gov. Scott Walker was coordinating campaign activity with a purportedly independent group, perhaps violating state law
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ALEC Backs Dangerous Comcast — Time Warner Cable Merger Plan, Opposes Open Internet
Corporate lobby ALEC is supporting proposed Comcast's plan to merge with Time Warner Cable
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Reform Groups Blast Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger Plan
Common Cause and more than 60 other organizations have joined forces to urge the FCC to reject Comcast's plan to merge with Time Warner Cable
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Telling the FCC: Say no to merger madness
Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable must be stopped. Allowing the nation’s largest cable operator gobble up its next largest rival would be a disaster.
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What Comes After Ferguson?
President Miles Rapoport urges justice in Ferguson, MO and national attack on economic and political inequality that fueled violence there.
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Another One Bites the Dust — Microsoft Leaves ALEC
Microsoft, one of the nation's largest companies, has dropped its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council.
