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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 Minutes: What Happened When Russian Hackers Attacked U.S. Election Infrastructure
Bill Whitaker of 60 Minutes takes us to the nondescript strip shopping center in Springfield, Illinois where the first shots were fired by Russia last year in what is now widely understood, by almost everyone but President Trump, as an ongoing cyber attack on our democracy.
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Unite America in Opposition to Hate
As a fringe element of hateful racists gather outside the White House today for "Unite the Right 2," we should recall that many Americans rejected their message and the violence it inspired in Charlottesville last year. America's struggle with race is ongoing and in moments like this it is important to witness the healing that continues to propel us forward to the fixes we need, as well as the pain a few cause so many.
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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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Nhà Trắng chưa sửa lại biên bản Helsinki
Tờ Atlantic đã ghi nhận ngay lập tức, phần còn lại của thế giới truyền thông đang bắt kịp sự việc sau khi Rachel Maddow nêu lên mối lo ngại vào đêm qua rằng một tuần sau đó, Nhà Trắng vẫn chưa chỉnh sửa biên bản chính thức cuộc họp báo giữa Putin và Trump ở Helsinki để bao gồm toàn bộ câu hỏi của 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.
