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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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Fair Districts = Fair Elections: It’s time to change the Ohio Constitution
It’s time to change the Ohio Constitution and require fairness and prevent partisan bias. Issue 1 will be on this November’s ballot and does just that.
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Forget Big Donors, 2016 Is Going To Be the Election of Mega-Donors
Most of the 2016 presidential candidates and their Super PACs filed campaign finance reports with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) late last week. These documents give a sneak-peek of how the 2016 election is shaping up to be the election of mega-donors.
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Big Tobacco, Big Oil, and Big Pharma sponsors ALEC’s Annual Conference At San Diego Resort
The first night at ALEC’s conference I was quietly sitting at the hotel bar. One legislator handed a whisky to another legislator and I heard him say “don’t thank me, thank Pfizer.” When I asked the legislator if Pfizer just paid for his drink, he denied it.
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Democracy Means Everyone
The 2016 presidential campaign early fundraising totals rolled in earlier this month, breaking records, but shocking no one.
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Fair Districts for Ohio Launches Campaign to Stop Partisan Manipulation of Ohio General Assembly Districts
Catherine Turcer with Common Cause Ohio joins Fair Districts for Ohio co-chairs for campaign launch
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Donald Trump Comes Clean About Money in Politics, But Doesn’t Offer Solutions
Business mogul, reality TV star, and now presidential candidate Donald Trump seems to understand how politics works these days.
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As Voting War Shifts to Carolina Courtroom, Thousands March for Voting Rights
Voting Rights Act in 2013 moved this week into a federal courtroom in North Carolina.
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Common Cause believes lawmakers should represent all, not just voters
A group of recent court decisions has reignited the debate over how we draw legislative districts. In a case out of Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of Americans to create independent commissions that strip politicians of the power to gerrymander districts.
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The State of Redistricting
Like the shape of many congressional districts, the process of redistricting is a complex one.
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Common Cause Discusses Redistricting Reform on Oregon Community Radio
Common Cause National Redistricting Coordinator Dan Vicuna and Oregon Executive Director Kate Titus went on Oregon community radio to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding the right of the people to create unbiased citizen redistricting commissions.
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The “Coalition of Conscience” and the Shaping of Democracy
It’s been a good week for democracy.
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Why I’m Marching
This past weekend, I joined hundreds of activists from the NAACP, Common Cause, and other organizations in Georgia for the Journey For Justice, a march from Selma to Washington D.C. to make good on our democracy's fundamental promise of liberty and justice for every American.
