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Five Things Your Tax Dollars Could Fund Instead of an Illegal Iran War
While Americans are struggling to afford basic necessities, the Trump Administration is pouring billions of dollars into an illegal war in Iran.
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Colorado Shows the Way to Protecting Our Elections
While President Trump’s “Election Integrity” commission plots ways to make voting more difficult for millions of Americans, officials in one state – Colorado – have taken a critical step to make sure that every vote is accurately recorded and vote totals are accurately reported.
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Twitter Town Hall Will Watchdog “Voter Integrity” Commission
As President Trump’s “election integrity” commission meets by livestream on Wednesday, Common Cause will host a Twitter town hall with analysis and commentary on the commission from some of the nation’s leading election law experts.
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El pueblo habla
A slew of recent polls make clear that most Americans, nearly 80%, support keeping the network neutrality rules that are the foundation of an open internet. These are the rules passed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2015, under the leadership of then-chairman Tom Wheeler, that keep the big Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon from determining your internet experience, because they’d rather do that themselves than let you do it. Net neutrality rules prohibit blocking or throttling...
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Departing Ethics Boss Says Trump Making U.S. a ‘Laughingstock”
America’s standing as the world’s leading ambassador for democratic, transparent government is in danger thanks to the ethical shortcomings of the Trump administration, the federal government’s top ethics officer argues in an interview published today.
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Common Cause Sues to Stop Pence-Kobach Panel’s Data Collection
Common Cause sued President Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity this afternoon, asking a federal court to shut down commission efforts to obtain personal information about millions of voters and order the panel to return the data it has already collected to state officials.
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Taking It To The Hill
As postings on 80,000 websites and messages from millions of internet users across America protested a Trump administration plan to end “net neutrality” rules, a band of lawmakers and activists gathered outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to join in the fight.
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Common Cause, Allies, File Amended Complaints Against Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort
The expanding web of campaign finance law violations growing out of the Trump for President campaign’s apparent solicitation of help from the Russian government has snared presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, Common Cause and two allied groups charged today.
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Trump Jr. Has Broken the Law; It’s Time for Enforcement Action
Donald Trump Jr.'s claim that he and the Trump campaign received nothing of value from their meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya is no defense at all.
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Causa común contra Rucho: escritos y órdenes clave
Cientos de miles de habitantes de Carolina del Norte se vieron privados de su capacidad de elegir a los candidatos de su elección mediante esta flagrante manipulación partidista de los distritos electorales por parte de la legislatura.
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This Is What a Smoking Gun Smells Like
Donald Trump Jr.’s late morning release of electronic messages he sent and received provides the most powerful evidence yet that the president and his inner circle have been lying for a year or more about Russian interference in the election and their potential involvement in it.
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Miércoles, ¡alza la voz por la neutralidad de la red!
Una nueva encuesta confirma que las normas de “neutralidad de la red” que el presidente de la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones y la administración Trump pretenden eliminar son populares entre los usuarios de Internet de todo el espectro político.
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