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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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7 Ridiculous Arguments Ted Cruz Made Against the Democracy for All Amendment
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said some very bizarre things on Tuesday as he and his colleagues debated the Democracy for All amendment, which would overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision and allow Congress to again regulate campaign spending.
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Net Neutrality is a Democracy Issue
The Internet is the cornerstone of 21st century democracy - it's how we learn about and debate the issues of the day. It's how we organize to make change. If the FCC surrenders on the core Open Internet principles, that would allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to create fast lanes for the deep pocketed few and stifle our ability to connect and communicate online.
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As Wall Street Profits Rise, Students Left Underwater
Opponents of the Democracy for All amendment to overturn Citizens United and restore limits on special interest campaign spending argue that the amendment will “limit speech.” That’s wrong. It will lift the voices of millions who are facing student loan debt by giving them a more equal say in our political system and limit the influence of outside special interests seeking to profit their debt.
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Appel nominal sur l'amendement « Démocratie pour tous »
Votes pour et contre sur la résolution 19 du Sénat américain, l'amendement sur la démocratie pour tous
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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
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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.
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Labor Day
Common Cause pauses to celebrate Labor Day.
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New ‘Risk Limiting’ Audits Promise More Accurate Vote Counts
Arapahoe County, CO, has successfully tested a new risk limiting audit to verify election returns
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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.
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Les cinq principaux points à retenir des derniers documents de l’enquête Walker sur John Doe
Des documents récemment publiés suggèrent que le gouverneur Scott Walker coordonnait ses activités de campagne avec un groupe prétendument indépendant, violant peut-être la loi de l'État
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L'ALEC soutient le dangereux projet de fusion Comcast-Time Warner Cable et s'oppose à l'ouverture d'Internet
Le lobby des entreprises ALEC soutient le projet de fusion de Comcast avec Time Warner Cable
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Reform Groups Blast Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger Plan
Common Cause and more than 60 other organizations have joined forces to urge the FCC to reject Comcast's plan to merge with Time Warner Cable
