While new voting restrictions in GA, AZ and TX make national news, attacks on democracy are rampant throughout the West, showing the need for federal protections via the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and S1.
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Just six years after Montanans overwhelmingly rejected a referendum that would stop Election Day registration, Republican legislators rendered citizens’ votes meaningless and revoked the opportunity 12,000 voters used to register in 2016.
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The For the People Act would be the greatest forward leap for democracy in generations. While voting rights are central to the bill, it also helps modernize and secure elections, and reduces the power of money.
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The local economic multiplier effect or “local premium” is a key benefit of “buy local” public education campaigns. Independent locally owned businesses recirculate a higher percent of revenue than absentee-owned businesses.
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First published in the Wall Street Journal: Jeff Bezos built Amazon.com Inc. from his garage with an underdog’s ambition to take on the establishment. As the company has grown, so has its capacity to take on an ever-growing array of competitors.
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Every one of Ohio’s 722 judges, 800 magistrates, and numerous active-retired judges should be greatly concerned and voice their dismay at the irresponsible Republican Party allegation that politics controlled the judge’s decision. This is a blatant and unfounded attack on the independence of the Ohio judiciary.
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