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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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The Incredible Vanishing Commission
A report today in The Guardian suggests that President Trump's voter fraud commission has either broken down or gone underground.
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Trump Bypassing Senate to Install Nominees in Top Jobs
The Trump administration may be violating a federal law that requires the president to wait for the Senate to confirm his nominees for senior government positions before putting those nominees to work.
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Bush 43’s Sobering Warning
“Bigotry seems emboldened” and “our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication," the former president says in New York.
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Remarks of Former-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
Remarks of Former-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
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HONEST Ads Act Would Bring Online Advertisers Into the Sunshine
A bipartisan trio of senators is set to introduce legislation today that would advance every American’s right to know who is trying to influence our votes.
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Trump’s Media Attacks Undercut Press Freedom
President Trump’s repeated attacks on journalists and what he calls “fake news” are undermining press freedom at a time when newspapers and broadcasters already are struggling with declining subscription and advertising revenues.
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What’s At Stake in Common Cause v. Rucho
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Tom Mathews, Common Cause’s First VP, Dies at 96
There’s sad news today from Utah, where the Salt Lake Tribune reports that Tom Mathews, recruited by Common Cause founder John Gardner in 1970 to serve as the fledgling organization’s first vice president, died Saturday at age 96.
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McCain, Biden, and Politics In the Trump Era
On Monday night in Philadelphia’s historic Independence Hall, John McCain and Joe Biden, fiercely partisan adversaries who hoped to be president, showed off a friendship that transcends politics on Monday and recalled a time when Democrats and Republicans in Washington could put country over party to actually get things done.
