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Sinclair Plays ‘Big Brother’ to Local TV Stations
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Hobert Flynn Details Threat to Accurate Census
Common Cause President Karen Hobert Flynn appeared today on CounterSpin, a daily podcast hosted by Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), to discuss the controversy over a proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census
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Friday Grabbag
Scott Pruitt's sweet - and slightly shady - deal; a special favor for Gov. Scott; VA chief sacked after friendly call from the president.
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Balanced Budget Amendment Push Highlights Congressional Hypocrisy
Washington always has an ample supply of hypocrisy but the seams are bursting with it this morning amid reports that the House Republican leadership plans to schedule a vote next week on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
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Maryland Joins March To Automatic Voter Registration
Add Maryland (probably) to the list of states that are taking an important step to strengthen democracy by adopting automatic voter registration.
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Justices Hearing Landmark Redistricting Case Today
Benisek v. Lamone, being argued this morning in the Supreme Court, raises what is arguably the most important question before the justices in their current term and could permanently transform American politics – for the better.
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Maryland, Pennsylvania Move To Lower Barriers To Voting
A pair of mid-Atlantic states are adding to the national momentum for new laws that remove needless barriers to voting and break big money’s hold on our elections.
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Distorting the Picture
Plans to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census will skew the count in favor of Republicans and leave millions of people unrepresented in Congress,.statehouses, and city and county councils.
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Why Stormy Matters
What should make Donald Trump's encounter with Stormy Daniels important to every American is the overwhelming evidence that a hush money payment to Daniels violated federal campaign finance law.
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New Complaint Charges Cambridge Analytica With Breaking U.S. Election Laws
Cambridge Analytica appears to have violated federal election laws that limit foreign involvement in U.S. elections, Common Cause charged today.
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Pivotal Hearing on Partisan Gerrymandering Coming Next Week
Amid what one veteran democracy activists calls "a revolution" in redistricting, the Supreme Court hears arguments next week in a possibly-landmark challenge to partisan gerrymandering.
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Taking On the Gun Lobby
With hundreds of thousands of Americans outraged by the plague of gun violence in our schools expected to march in Washington on Saturday, Common Cause today released a practical guide for challenging the power of the gun lobby.
