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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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Volunteer Voices: Corporate America’s Turnaround on Political Spending
Martin G. Evans is a long-time advocate and volunteer at Common Cause Massachusetts and is professor emeritus of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. This essay was originally published by the Boston Business Journal.
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Paul S. Ryan Explains Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea
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Common Cause on All In With Chris Hayes: Cohen Indicates He was Ordered by Trump to Break Law
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Uncommon Reads: New Yorker “Donald Trump has been Implicated in a Criminal Conspiracy”
The first in a series of "Uncommon Reads" from Common Cause staff. These must reads are selected by the staff member indicated in the by-line. The writing excerpted is that of the author of the article being recommended.
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Robert Reich: Ten Steps to Finding Common Ground
Robert Reich offers advice on engaging political conversations with people we disagree with because democracy depends on it.
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60 Minutes: What Happened When Russian Hackers Attacked U.S. Election Infrastructure
Bill Whitaker of 60 Minutes takes us to the nondescript strip shopping center in Springfield, Illinois where the first shots were fired by Russia last year in what is now widely understood, by almost everyone but President Trump, as an ongoing cyber attack on our democracy.
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Unite America in Opposition to Hate
As a fringe element of hateful racists gather outside the White House today for "Unite the Right 2," we should recall that many Americans rejected their message and the violence it inspired in Charlottesville last year. America's struggle with race is ongoing and in moments like this it is important to witness the healing that continues to propel us forward to the fixes we need, as well as the pain a few cause so many.
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Automatic Voter Registration Works…And Here Is The Evidence To Prove It
Voting is one of the fundamental ways Americans can make their voices heard in our democracy. But too often, the process of registering to vote can be tricky, confusing, and complicated. That’s one of the reasons why Common Cause has a nationwide campaign to push for a new innovative reform to make the process of voter registration more convenient and secure. It’s called automatic voter registration (AVR).
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Gerrymander Gazette: Midwest – 2, Gerrymandering – 0
Redistricting reformers scored big wins in Michigan and Missouri last week.
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Two Hours with Putin vs. 30 Minutes on Election Security
In a tale of two meetings, President Trump met recently with Vladimir Putin for two hours with no one but a translator and still has provided no read-out of the meeting to his top national security advisors. By contrast he met with those top advisors today for thirty minutes about protecting our elections from Russian interference. Whose side is he on?
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Small Dollar Donor Laws Continue to Win Coast-to-Coast
Hedrick Smith is an award-winning journalist whose documentary, The People vs. The Politicians, will air on MSNBC this fall helping to tell the good news of the growing people's movement to preserve our voices and votes in our democracy.
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The White House Has Not Corrected the Helsinki Transcript
The Atlantic noted it immediately, the rest of the media world is catching up after Rachel Maddow raised concerns last night that one week later the White House has not corrected the official transcript of the Putin-Trump news conference in Helsinki to include Jeff Mason's full question.
