No thanks to the Supreme Court — but grassroots reform efforts, pro-voter court rulings, and new political dynamics in key states mean the next round of redistricting is shaping up to be a lot fairer than the last one.
We’re on our way to 500,000 in 2020.
As has been true for over 200 years, the next president will be chosen by an eighteenth-century anachronism. American voters deserve better.
The next redistricting cycle, which begins in 2021, will be a frightening and unfettered orgy of stolen partisan advantage
What are some of the barriers to minority candidates running for/winning office?
The polling industry claims to offer live snapshots of what the public thinks. Yet the obsession with polls is reducing politics to market research.
Kansas Democrats are using ranked-choice voting for the 2020 primary election, hoping to increase voter participation and to create fairer voting systems.
It would maximize participation and broad-based appeal, and improve our democracy.
Tuesday’s results were perfectly coherent, a fight over two concepts central to our nation’s origins, its progress, and its future: the promises of and restrictions on political representation and political enfranchisement.
The United States is not the only supposedly democratic country saddled with an undemocratic upper legislative chamber (ours just has the most egregious malapportionment), but Americans have, so far, been the least willing to push back.
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