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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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It’s not about “Can we?” It’s about “Will we?”
Next week public comments are due regarding the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) proposed rules for net neutrality. Much of the focus will be on arcane legalisms, the particulars of various court decisions, and the confounding twists and turns of FCC regulatory oversight (or lack thereof). This is all well and good, and based on more than a decade tracking such minutiae as a member of the FCC, I am confident that those of us favoring real Open Internet will have much the better detailed arguments to put forward. But it’s...
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What We’re Reading This Week – 7/3/14
This week – super PACs, the Voting Rights Amendment Act, Hobby Lobby, and Twitter
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Fighting For Net Neutrality in Burlington
The Media and Democracy team recently traveled to beautiful Burlington, Vermont. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) invited Michael Copps, former FCC Commissioner and special advisor to our Media and Democracy program, to testify on the Open Internet ("net neutrality").
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FCC Calls for Political Ad Disclosure
Politicians have learned to harness every form of technology to manipulate voters, but none are more visible than ads on TV. For many voters who haven't had time to do their own research, these ads may be the only information they have as they head to the polls.
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Гавайи добиваются успехов в участии в выборах
Гавайи делают шаги к более активному участию в выборах. В попытке бороться с низкой явкой избирателей в штате и расширить доступ к избирательным урнам губернатор Нил Аберкромби подписал законопроект, позволяющий избирателям регистрироваться на заочных избирательных участках с 2016 года, что открывает путь к началу регистрации в день выборов в 2018 году.
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What We’re Reading, Week Ending June 27
This week – MA SWAT teams, Mayday PAC, disclosure, and executive power
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Common Cause, Students Press Sallie Mae to Disclose All Lobbying
Common Cause and other public interest groups called on student loan giant Sallie Mae today to make detailed financial disclosures of its lobbying activity.
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Defending The People’s Pledge
Does the Pledge keep money out of politics? Yes!
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Koch-backed Groups Linked to Scalia Trip, Speech Last Summer
Minutes after a lawyers’ group funded in part by industrialists Charles and David Koch welcomed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for a luncheon speech last August, another Koch-backed entity led a “stop government spending” rally in the same Montana hotel, a Common Cause analysis of Scalia’s annual financial disclosure report indicates
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Common Cause Hawaii welcomes four new board members
We are so excited to bring on four talented new board members to our team at Common Cause Hawaii!
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Walker Documents Strengthen Case for Campaign Finance Reform
New evidence of coordination between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and groups supporting him strengthens case for campaign finance reform.
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Newly Released Documents Put Scott Walker in the Hot Seat
Documents unsealed Thursday by a federal appeals court in Chicago suggest that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign in the 2012 recall election worked hand-in-glove – perhaps illegally – with special interest groups.
