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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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Politicizing the FBI
President Trump apparently just can’t stop trying to politicize the FBI.
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PA High Court Joins Movement for Fair Districts
It’s increasingly clear that courts across the country are ready to declare that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional and insist that political maps that allow voters to choose our elected officials, not permit officials to choose their voters.
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Common Cause Seeks Probe of Trump Camp’s Alleged Payments to ‘Adult’ Film Star
An alleged payment to adult film star “Stormy Daniels” to buy her silence about a past sexual relationship with President Trump may constitute an illegal contribution to Trump's 2016 campaign.
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Trump Payment May Have Broken Campaign Finance Law
Did President Trump or someone close to him make an indirect and likely illegal contribution to his 2016 campaign to buy the silence of an “adult” film star?.
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Common Cause Breaks Down Historic North Carolina Redistricting Victory on The Real News
Common Cause National Redistricting Manager Dan Vicuna discussed Common Cause’s sweeping court victory against gerrymandering in North Carolina on The Real News.
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FBI Probing Russian Banker’s Role in NRA Support for Trump
Did a Russian banker with ties to Vladimir Putin supply cash that the National Rifle Association used to promote the election of President Trump?
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Net Neutrality Supporters Need Just One More Senator!
There is fresh evidence this morning that the fight for an open internet isn’t over; aroused citizens can still save it.
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Court Rips NC Redistricting Plan as Unconstitutional Partisan Gerrymander
North Carolina legislative leaders are doubling down on their investment in un-representative democracy this morning, appealing a scathing federal court decision that congressional districts they fashioned in 2016 are an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
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Rally at the Supreme Court This Morning To End Voter Purges
Common Cause members and other voting rights activists gathered for a rally outside the Supreme Court this morning as the justices heard a landmark challenge to an Ohio law that state officials have used to lift the registrations of about 2 million voters
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DC Council Backs Innovative Campaign Finance Plan
Washington, D.C.’s City Council moved today to join a growing list of local and state governments in shifting power to small dollar donors and away from big money interests.
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Ohio Case Invites High Court to Stand Up for Voting Rights
In Husted v. A Philip Randolph Institute, the Supreme Court has a chance to stop states from purging non-voters from the voter rolls.
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Where the Rubber Meets the Road In the Fight for an Open Internet
The battle for an Open Internet now pits the three self-proclaimed wise men of the FCC against an overwhelming majority of the American people.
