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Preserving Democracy
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How did we get here?

By: Evangeline Morphos Political analysts, historians, journalists, and political leaders are defining our present moment as a turning point in our democracy. Are we in fact abandoning our founding principles

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Preserving Democracy
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Turbocharging student voters

By Maxim Thorne, CEO, Civic Influencers At Civic Influencers, we are succeeding in turning out young voters that can swing elections. The right knows and fears our work—and they’re freaking

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Preserving Democracy
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Navigating The Past To Understand the Present

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  – George Santayana A significant number of far-right US political leaders are whitewashing and re-writing history by banning books and any discussion of

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Preserving Democracy
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Not So Proud: Seditious Conspiracy

Four Proud Boys and four Oath Keepers have been convicted of seditious conspiracy for the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.  The last time anyone was convicted of seditious

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Preserving Democracy
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Ballot Measures, Big Bucks

Getting an Initiative on the Ballot is Getting More Expensive. Everything is more expensive these days (read: inflation) – and that includes ballot initiatives. Campaigns for ballot initiatives often spend hundreds

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Preserving Democracy
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Bucking democracy in Ohio

Welcome to the new Ohio, where the state legislature has become an increasingly frightening and powerful laboratory for autocracy.  To start, on January 6th, 2023 (of all the dates!) Ohio’s

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Preserving Democracy
Kate Fellman

Innovating Civic Engagement in North Carolina

Voting is a habit. Research shows that voting habits established soon after reaching eligibility persevere for decades.¹ Educating and mobilizing young people, therefore, is an effective strategy to establish lifelong

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Preserving Democracy
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Florida’s Curriculum Transparency

In 2019, I vividly remember my son Luke’s 3rd grade teacher in our public elementary school in California who had the most wonderful mini library of books in the corner

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Preserving Democracy
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The New Right

The New Right, who are best represented by Peter Thiel and its philosopher-darling, Curtis Yarvin, are very clear about their antipathy to democracy.  The New Right, aka Neoreactionaries, are proponents of “RAGE” (getting Rid of All Government Employees) and forming

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Preserving Democracy
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All the President’s Men

One measure of a President’s power is the effect he has on the judiciary.  President Biden has appointed 105 Article III judges, outpacing Trump, Obama, and Bush.  Still, there is no

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Uncategorized
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February 21st Special Election Watch

VIRGINIA On February 21st, Virginia will hold a special election to fill a vacancy in the U.S House of Representatives left by the late Rep. A. Donald McEachin. With an already slim

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Preserving Democracy
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Throwing Out The Trash. Article 1.

What does it take to get George Santos out of office before he serves his full term?   The United States Constitution expressly provides in Article I, Section 5, clause

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Preserving Democracy
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“Scamtos”

How did George Santos get elected and why is he still in office?   One local newspaper investigated and ran articles on George Santos prior to his election. The North Shore

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Defending Women’s Rights
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50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ROE v. WADE

It’s hard to believe that today (1/22/23) we would have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling of Roe v. Wade.  It is a stark reminder of all

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