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Take Our Questionnaire: Vote By Mail
Common Cause is evaluating potential actions in response to reports that the Administration may seek to restrict vote by mail through executive action. Vote by mail is a critical access point for millions of voters — including people with disabilities, caregivers, students, rural voters, seniors, shift workers, and people without reliable transportation. Any effort to limit this option could disproportionately burden voters who already face barriers to participation. We are gathering information from voters who...
Whitewashing Representation
Partisan operatives are trying to change how electoral districts are drawn, in a radical effort to undermine our representative democracy.
Under the Microscope
Election Disinformation in 2022 and What We Learned for 2024
BY Emma Steiner
BY Emma Steiner
National Citizen Redistricting Commissioners Conference
In December 2023, Common Cause gathered citizen redistricting commissioners from 14 commissions in 10 different states to participate in the first ever national conference of commissioners.
Seven Ways the Trump Administration Is Hurting Women
After a generation of progress, the war on women is once again putting women’s freedom, safety, and political power at risk.
Reports Indicate New Biden Executive Order Will Prioritize & Strengthen White House Ethics
The American people expect and deserve the restoration of strong ethical standards at the White House in the wake of the abuses of the Trump presidency. President-elect Biden promised reform on the campaign trail, and Common Cause, along with our allies, urged the incoming administration to take make a strong commitment to ethics and democracy reforms.
Common Cause Calls for Immediate Hearings on Reports of White House Turmoil
Today, Common Cause called on Congress to uphold its oversight responsibilities and immediately investigate the alarming accounts of President Trump’s “reckless” and “erratic behavior” since taking office that were made by a “senior official in the Trump administration” in an op-ed published anonymously in The New York Times last week. In a letter to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Common Cause urged immediate hearings on the disturbing...
