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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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Maryland Joins March To Automatic Voter Registration
Add Maryland (probably) to the list of states that are taking an important step to strengthen democracy by adopting automatic voter registration.
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Justices Hearing Landmark Redistricting Case Today
Benisek v. Lamone, being argued this morning in the Supreme Court, raises what is arguably the most important question before the justices in their current term and could permanently transform American politics – for the better.
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Maryland, Pennsylvania Move To Lower Barriers To Voting
A pair of mid-Atlantic states are adding to the national momentum for new laws that remove needless barriers to voting and break big money’s hold on our elections.
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Distorting the Picture
Plans to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census will skew the count in favor of Republicans and leave millions of people unrepresented in Congress,.statehouses, and city and county councils.
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Why Stormy Matters
What should make Donald Trump's encounter with Stormy Daniels important to every American is the overwhelming evidence that a hush money payment to Daniels violated federal campaign finance law.
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New Complaint Charges Cambridge Analytica With Breaking U.S. Election Laws
Cambridge Analytica appears to have violated federal election laws that limit foreign involvement in U.S. elections, Common Cause charged today.
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Pivotal Hearing on Partisan Gerrymandering Coming Next Week
Amid what one veteran democracy activists calls "a revolution" in redistricting, the Supreme Court hears arguments next week in a possibly-landmark challenge to partisan gerrymandering.
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Taking On the Gun Lobby
With hundreds of thousands of Americans outraged by the plague of gun violence in our schools expected to march in Washington on Saturday, Common Cause today released a practical guide for challenging the power of the gun lobby.
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Spending Bill Should Boost Election Security
Congress appears poised today to give state election officials a sorely-needed infusion of cash to fortify their voting and registration systems against cyberattacks.
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WATCH: Hill Briefing On Partisan Gerrymandering
U.S. Reps. Rod Blum, R-IA, and Alan Lowenthal, D-CA, joined Atlanta attorney Emmet Bondurant and Common Cause’s Marilyn Carpinteyro on Tuesday to brief reporters on the importance of independent redistricting and the current wave of legal challenges to partisan gerrymandering.
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Texas AG Looks To Block Student Voting
Texans take pride in doing things big, and apparently in the case of Attorney General Ken Paxton, doing things wrong.
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Senate Panel Pushes Election Security Measures
The Senate Intelligence Committee convened a rare public hearing this morning to highlight the Russian threat to this year’s midterm elections and a set of security measures the committee set out in writing on Tuesday.
