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New Congressional Action for Independent Redistricting Popular with the People
Common Cause is urging Missouri’s congressional delegation to support new legislation that bans mid-decade redistricting
Common Cause Statement on Attack Against Charlie Kirk
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September Poll: 64% of Republican and Independent Voters Want Ban for Mid-Decade Redistricting
Republican and Independent voters want Congress to step up and ban mid-decade redistricting in opposition to a White House desperate to hold onto power – including 60% of voters who supported Donald Trump in 2024.
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Correcting the Record on False Mid-Cycle Redistricting Mailer
“Common Cause is in no way affiliated with Protect Voters First and did not authorize this mailer. Our position on mid-cycle redistricting is clear — we will not oppose mid-cycle redistricting efforts in states that meet our six fairness criteria. However, any states that refuse to comply with our criteria will meet strong people-powered opposition.”
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California Meets, Texas Fails to Meet Common Cause’s Redistricting Fairness Criteria
Common Cause released its evaluation of the proposed mid-decade congressional redistricting process in Texas and California against its established fairness criteria.
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Common Cause Launches Fairness Criteria to Counter Mid-Decade Power Plays
"We have established a fairness criteria that we will use to evaluate all countermeasures so we can respond to the most urgent threats to fair representation while holding all actors to the same principled standard: people—not parties—first.”
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Hostile Takeover of Washington, D.C., MPD
Sending the military into the neighborhoods of DC, despite recent drops in violent crime, is a ruthless, targeted attack on the people of this great city.
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MEDIA BRIEFING: The Split State Solution to Gerrymandering
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TODAY: North Carolina Voter to Testify Before Congress
Heling will travel to Capitol Hill to speak before the U.S. House Committee on House Administration about her experience being unjustly targeted in Griffin’s lawsuit and concerns about the Department of Justice questioning voter rolls in North Carolina.
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Senate Passes a Budget for Billionaires, Healthcare Cuts for the People
“This deadly budget bill will mean millions of American families and children will lose their healthcare, so billionaires get a tax break."
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Major Supreme Court Case Could Eliminate Final Guardrails On Money In Politics
The decision to take up this case is the latest in a long string of campaign finance cases since Citizens United v. FEC that have undermined basic safeguards against corruption and deepened the influence of big money in our democracy.
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SCOTUS Limits Birthright Citizenship Protections & Constitutional Rights
Today, the United States Supreme Court paused a federal district court’s decision that protected the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States. On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order attempting to end the 14th Amendment’s citizenship guarantee. Federal courts swiftly blocked the order via nationwide injunctions, recognizing it as a blatant violation of the Constitution.
