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Here’s Why Common Cause Filed 57 Complaints Against the Trump Administration for Violating Federal Ethics Laws
When the Trump Administration started using government platforms to blame Democrats for the shutdown, we jumped into action.
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Common Cause Maryland: Accessible and Secure Voting Includes Election Day Registration
Common Cause Maryland is making sure that every eligible voter who wants to vote can do so with Election Day Registration. Why should your voice or mine be left out? We should all have a say in the future for our family and community and we can do that in making sure our elections are secure and accessible.
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Video: Slow the Senate’s Rush to Judgment on Kavanaugh
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Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross Lies About Census 2020 Citizenship Question
After a recent deposition, it appears Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross lied to Congress about the controversial "citizenship question" the Trump Administration wants to add to the 2020 Census.
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We the People Will Not Allow ALEC to Undermine Our Democracy
Join Common Cause and our allies tonight outside of the Trump International Hotel when ALEC's corporate lobbyists will be strolling into the gala. Please sign up to attend at the links below and urge others to come by sharing on your social media networks.
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Help Welcome Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Back to the Voting Booth
Many formerly incarcerated people can vote, but they don't know it. Giving people returning to our communities a say in their future helps to distance them from the past. Common Cause proudly joins the Campaign Legal Center in an effort to register 25,000 people who are eligible to vote -- join us in creating hope in the future and imagine the moment when the people you help register put on an "I voted" sticker for the first time.
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The Purges: A Cautionary Tale for National Voter Registration Day
Today is National Voter Registration Day and Common Cause makes it easy to verify your vote and register if you need to. Even if you don't need to, here is why you should, and why you should share this Democracy Wire post on Facebook and Twitter urging your friends to do the same.
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Democracy Download: Week of September 24, 2018
Democracy Download is an every-other-weekly round-up of democracy-related events from across the ideological spectrum.
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Games Congress Plays: The Judge Kavanuagh Edition
Guest columnist and Common Cause Massachusetts volunteer Martin Evans gives us another perspective on the Kavanaugh nomination. This column was first published in Wicked Local, Cambridge MA.
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Gerrymander GazetTeeVee: Laugh While You Learn About the Fight for Fair Maps
It's Season 1, Episode 1 of The Kathay & Dan Show. Early reviews from Hollywood suggest they may be the Sonny & Cher of Fair Maps. You have to be almost as old as Elbridge Gerry to understand that comedic reference.
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A History of Undercounting People of Color: Why the 2020 Census May Make it Worse
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Failure to Relocate People in Prison in Florence’s Path is an Abuse of Power
As Hurricane Florence inches closer and closer to the east coast, government officials in the areas call for an immediate evacuation, but some are not upholding their own ethical responsibility by evacuating thousands of people in jails and prisons in the region.
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Gerrymander Gazette: Trial Court Puts Common Cause v. Rucho on Fast Track to Supreme Court
