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Money & Influence 09.5.2014

Civil Libertarians Take A Stand for the Right to Be Heard

Former leaders of the ACLU are breaking with that organization to reject Supreme Court rulings that money equals speech

Media & Democracy 09.2.2014

Municipal Broadband: It's Your Choice

Municipal broadband is the radical idea that consumers should have choice – and big corporate ISPs will stop at nothing to kill it.

Voting & Elections 08.27.2014

New 'Risk Limiting' Audits Promise More Accurate Vote Counts

Arapahoe County, CO, has successfully tested a new risk limiting audit to verify election returns

Money & Influence 08.27.2014

Seven Disturbing Quotes From the Koch Summit Speeches

Today, The Nation and The Huffington Post published speeches from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and 3 other GOP Senate candidates, Rep. Tom Cotton (AR), state Sen. Joni Ernst (IA), and Rep. Cory Gardner (CO), at a secretive donor summit hosted in June by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.

Money & Influence 08.26.2014

Top Five Takeaways From the Latest "John Doe" Documents in Walker Probe

Newly released documents suggest Gov. Scott Walker was coordinating campaign activity with a purportedly independent group, perhaps violating state law

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