Happy Saturday. And welcome to week 4 of the college football season! 

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This week’s Common Cause newsletter is just a 4.5 minute read at 660 words. 

📊 Survey Says: Even the GOP is Against Mid-Decade Redistricting

Last week, we released the results from our in-depth national poll on redistricting. (Thanks to our friends at Noble Predictive Insights!) And the results are crystal clear: Americans do not want mid-decade redistricting. Not Republicans. Not Independents. Not Democrats. 

That’s right — even Republicans. In fact, 60% of 2024 Donald Trump voters are against the mid-decade redistricting war he started. The numbers are so compelling that even the talking heads at MSNBC were talking about our poll.

📜 Congress Takes Action on Our Poll

This week, California’s Representative Lofgren and Senator Padilla introduced a brand new law: the Redistricting Reform Act of 2025. The announcement comes on the heels of our poll that showed 77% of Americans supporting independent commissions drawing districts instead of state legislators.

President & CEO Virginia Kase Solomón was on Capitol Hill this week to announce our support for the bill, which would prohibit mid-decade redistricting nationwide and require every state to establish independent redistricting.

She even ran into Don Lemon and shared with him the importance of protecting fair representation in the mid-decade redistricting war. 

💪🏽 Another Win Against Article V 

The California State Assembly just passed legislation to rescind all previous calls for an Article V constitutional convention. That makes three states in 2025 that Common Cause has helped to reverse course on Article V — Washington, Connecticut, and now California.

A constitutional convention presents significant risks to our fundamental rights and freedoms and carries more potential to take us backward rather than move us forward. It would jeopardize issues we all care about, like civil rights, women’s rights, housing, the environment, and gun safety. And thanks to Common Cause, we just stopped it from moving forward in California. 

In the last decade, we have eliminated twelve states from contention for an Article V convention, including Delaware, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, New Jersey, Illinois, Oregon, and New York. 

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👀 ICYMI 

We’re working so hard to protect our democracy, we could write you a novel instead of a newsletter. Instead, here are the top headlines you don’t want to miss: 

• Indiana 🏎️: Advocates push back on Secretary of State sharing data. The Indiana Secretary of State claims that his sharing of voting data has led to the discovery of a non-eligible voter participating in elections. Common Cause Indiana says not so far — and stop sharing our data so freely.

• California 🐻: Big Business once again tries to quietly oppose transparency. When businesses like Google want to quietly oppose legislation, they often pour money into organizations that don’t report it until months later, if at all. That’s a big money and transparency issue, Common Cause California says.

• Massachusetts 🍀: There’s always voting rights work to do. Common Cause Massachusetts is working with allies to push for more voting rights in their state,  including same day voter registration. Check out how we’re working to expand voting rights where you might not expect it. 

📊 By the Numbers

The results of our September poll are in: Donald Trump’s own supporters don’t want him to rig the maps. Congress should grow a spine and listen to the people.  

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