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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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New Spending Bill Makes Lawbreaking Easy for Government Contractors
Six hundred twelve pages into the 1,665-page bill that will keep our government open until September lurks a sentence that will make Congress and the president – assuming he signs it – partners in corrupting our elections and government contracting process
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At the Hundred Day Mark, Russia Probe More Important Than Ever
The failure of congressional leaders to staff an independent investigation is fast becoming the only question in Washington that matters. What will it take for Congress to make the Russia investigation the priority the American people believe it deserves?
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‘State of the Swamp’ Spotlights Trump Team’s Ethical Blindness
New Common Cause report reviews Trump's first 100 days, points the way to clean up the administration's ethical lapses.
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Friends Remember Benjamin Barber, Tireless Advocate for Democracy
There is sad news this morning out of New York: Benjamin Barber, a brilliant political theorist and former longtime member of Common Cause’s National Governing Board, has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Trendsetting States Setting a Bad Example
Iowa and New Hampshire set the trends for presidential elections.Let’s hope that their influence does not extend to election laws.
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Senate Committee’s Russia-Trump Probe Stalls Out
Just a few weeks ago, the Senate Intelligence Committee looked like the best hope for those of us holding out hope that Congress might conduct a serious investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. No more.
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A New Weapon Against Fake News
PolitiFact, a nonprofit news organization, has launched an online almanac to identify "fake news" websites
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Common Cause Suit Challenges North Carolina Legislature
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by Common Cause North Carolina and 10 Carolinians asks a state court to nullify two bills passed at a special session of the state legislature last December because legislative leaders provided no advance public notice of their meeting.
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Even Lawmakers Shut Out as Trump Team Clamps Down on Information
The new administration is killing one of the last vestiges of bipartisanship in Washington: a long tradition that formal inquiries posed to federal agencies by members of Congress, regardless of party, get a formal answer.
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Common Cause NY se suma a la marcha por la rendición de cuentas de Trump
Con carteles azules que decían "Hacer que el poder rinda cuentas" de un lado y "Pueblo. Acción. Democracia" del otro, nuestro feroz grupo de defensores de la causa común se mantuvo unido en Bryant Park para la Marcha por los Impuestos el sábado 15 de abril.
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Avoiding the Article V Trap
Legal scholars, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, agree there is no way to limit an Article V convention
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Trump Repopulating ‘the Swamp’
A new report by The New York Times and ProPublica details how the Trump administration is stocking federal agencies “with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants."
