{"id":49127,"date":"2025-09-20T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/?post_type=article&p=49127"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:39:15","slug":"common-cause-watchdog-newsletter-september-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/vi\/articles\/common-cause-watchdog-newsletter-september-20-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Watchdog Newsletter\u2014September 20, 2025"},"template":"","class_list":["post-49127","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-article"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"This week\u2019s Common Cause newsletter is just a 4.5 minute read at 660 words. ","featured_image":"","article_type":11,"authors":"","related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Happy Saturday. And welcome to week 4 of the college football season!\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn the<\/span> Watchdog Newsletter<\/b>, we share what you need to know to hold power accountable from the nonpartisan source you can trust. And we don\u2019t give in to pressure from presidents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThis week\u2019s Common Cause newsletter is just a 4.5 minute read at 660 words.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\ud83d\udcca<\/b> Survey Says: Even the GOP is Against Mid-Decade Redistricting<\/b>\r\n\r\nLast week, we released<\/span> the results from our in-depth national poll<\/span><\/a> on redistricting. (Thanks to our friends at Noble Predictive Insights!) And the results are crystal clear: Americans do not want mid-decade redistricting. Not Republicans. Not Independents. Not Democrats.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s right \u2014 even Republicans. In fact, <\/span>60% of 2024 Donald Trump voters are against the mid-decade redistricting war <\/b>he started. The numbers are so compelling that even the talking heads at MSNBC were talking about our poll.<\/span>\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\n\ud83d\udcdc<\/span> Congress Takes Action on Our Poll<\/b>\r\n\r\nThis week, California\u2019s Representative Lofgren and Senator Padilla introduced a brand new law: the Redistricting Reform Act of 2025. The announcement comes on the heels of our poll that showed 77% of Americans supporting independent commissions drawing districts instead of state legislators.<\/span>\r\n\r\nPresident & CEO Virginia Kase Solom\u00f3n was on Capitol Hill this week to announce our support for the bill, which would prohibit mid-decade redistricting nationwide and require every state to establish independent redistricting.<\/span>\r\n\r\nShe even ran into Don Lemon and shared with him the importance of protecting fair representation in the mid-decade redistricting war.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\n\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffd Another Win Against Article V\u00a0<\/b>\r\n\r\nThe California State Assembly just passed legislation to rescind all previous calls for an Article V constitutional convention. That makes three states in 2025 that Common Cause has helped to reverse course on Article V \u2014 Washington, Connecticut, and now California.<\/span>\r\n\r\nA constitutional convention presents significant risks to our fundamental rights and freedoms and carries more potential to take us backward rather than move us forward. It would jeopardize issues we all care about, like civil rights, women\u2019s rights, housing, the environment, and gun safety. And thanks to Common Cause, we just stopped it from moving forward in California.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn the last decade, we have eliminated twelve states from contention for an Article V convention, including Delaware, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, New Jersey, Illinois, Oregon, and New York.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\ud83d\udcf1 Our Favorite Post<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\ud83d\udc40 ICYMI<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nWe're working so hard to protect our democracy, we could write you a novel instead of a newsletter. Instead, here are the top headlines you don't want to miss:\u00a0<\/span>\r\n