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A Past Felony Conviction Does Not Bar You From Voting for Life

A Past Felony Conviction Does Not Bar You From Voting for Life

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Meet Kevin Wong, Who Learned He Could Vote From RestoreYourVote.org

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State and Local Public Financing Programs Are Leading the Way – Now It’s Time for Congress to Follow With HR 1

As Congress holds hearings on the pro-democracy reform bill, HR 1 , members of Congress are learning about public financing reforms that are new to the federal government, but have been bubbling up at the state and local level – the laboratories of democracy – for years.
February 14, 2019
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CLC Complaint and Story in The Trace Alleged the NRA Broke Election Laws – Now Congress Wants Answers

A joint congressional inquiry is demanding that the NRA share all internal documents related to the accusations.
February 8, 2019
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New Reports Show Why the FEC Needs to Clarify Disclosure Requirements for Dark Money Groups—and Why Congress Should Go Even Further

In final stretch of 2018 race, $50.7 million was spent on independent expenditures subject to disclosure, but only eight percent was accounted for.
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Brendan Fischer
Maggie Christ
February 6, 2019
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I’ve Been a U.S. Citizen Since 2015. My State is Threatening to Purge Me From the Rolls

When I became a naturalized citizen in 2015 after moving to Texas, I never thought that today in 2019, my home state would put my voting rights in jeopardy.

Dion Jackson

North Dakota Native Americans Speak Out to Protect Their Right to Vote

Here are stories from eligible, Native American voters in North Dakota who are fighting for their right to vote in the face of the state's discriminatory voter ID law. 

Rodney Lofton of Mobile, Alabama

Military Veteran Rodney Lofton on What Voting for the First Time Meant to Him

Faulkner with her attorneys Anita Earls and Allison Riggs in the League of Women Voters v. Rucho case

Why I Want the Supreme Court to Finally Put an End to Gerrymandering

Partisan gerrymandering...is 'incompatible with democratic principles.' More effectively every day, that practice enables politicians to entrench themselves in power against the people's will. And only the courts can do anything to remedy the problem.
Justice Elena Kagan, Concurrence in Gill v. Whitford, June 18, 2018
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Ex-lawmakers face new scrutiny over lobbying

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Letters to the editor: nonpolitical redistricting for equal representation

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Exploratory committees, the weird opening act of the 2020 campaign, explained

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Public remains in the dark on nonprofit political spending: Report

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Why Trump's inauguration was so sleazy, even for Washington