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Equal Citizens — a nonprofit founded by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig — is dedicated to reforms that will achieve citizen equality. Through a series of projects that aim to restore the core promise of citizen equality in our Constitution, we will end the corruption of our representative democracy.
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Democracy Illustrated: A New Graphic Novel About Democracy
Title Democracy Illustrated: A New Graphic Novel About Democracy Description: In this episode, Adam Eichen speaks with MapLight president Daniel Newman, who just authored a new graphic novel about democracy reform, Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy. The two...
Larry Lessig talk with Andrew Yang
Title Larry Lessig talk with Andrew Yang Today, we bring you a recast of a recent of episode of Yang Speaks, in which Equal Citizens founder Larry Lessig spoke with Andrew Yang about how we can reform our democracy. They discuss dialing for dollars, the theory that...
Selecting the President, Today and In The Future (Recast)
Title Bonus: Selecting the President, Today and In The Future (Recast) In this special episode, we bring you a recast of an episode of the Democracy Works podcast featuring Equal Citizens founder Larry Lessig. He appeared with Meredith McGehee, executive...
Alan Khazei on our “Great Awakening”
Title Alan Khazei on our "Great Awakening" Larry Lessig talks to Alan Khazei, who is running for Congress in the Massachusetts' Fourth District, about "democracy entrepreneurs," ending corruption, and how to build a broad coalition to fight for reform....
OUR PROJECTS
EQUAL VOTES
A legal challenge to the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes
In a democracy, all votes should count equally. In our democracy, when voting for the president, they do not. Because of the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes, if you don’t vote for the candidate who wins your state, your vote counts for nothing. That violates the Constitution’s “one person, one vote” principle. We plan to challenge this system in the courts. Join this fight for citizen equality. Learn more →
END SUPER PACS
We’re fighting super PACs in Alaska. If we win, we could end super PACs nationwide.
Working with citizens in Alaska — where state law gives citizens the right to demand election law be enforced — we want to take this question to the Supreme Court: What would the Framers have said about super PACs? Learn more →
ELECTORS FREEDOM
Resolving the constitutional freedom of presidential electors.
We are currently providing legal help to the electors in Colorado and Washington who were threatened or fined by their state government for voting their conscience in 2016. Learn more →
ANOTHER WAY PODCAST
Can we make 2020 something more than a civil war between Democrats and Republicans?
Is there a way to make the 2020 election about something more than simply defeating President Trump? Can it become an election that unites America? Can we leverage what unifies America, and get an (unrigged) democracy that could work? That’s the hope described in this six episodes — Another Way, Season One. Listen →
RANKED CHOICE VOTING FOR PRESIDENT
End the spoiler effect once and for all.
The ability to vote for a candidate who can represent you best is an essential part of a democracy. Yet, because of the two-party system in America, third party candidates are too often “spoilers,” not choices. Learn more →
OUR PROJECTS
EQUAL VOTES
A legal challenge to the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes
In a democracy, all votes should count equally. In our democracy, when voting for the president, they do not. Because of the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes, if you don’t vote for the candidate who wins your state, your vote counts for nothing. That violates the Constitution’s “one person, one vote” principle. We plan to challenge this system in the courts. Join this fight for citizen equality. Learn more →
END SUPER PACS
We’re fighting super PACs in Alaska.If we win, we could end super PACs nationwide.
Working with citizens in Alaska — where state law gives citizens the right to demand election law be enforced — we want to take this question to the Supreme Court: What would the Framers have said about super PACs? Learn more →
ANOTHER WAY PODCAST
Is there a way to make the 2020 election about something more than simply defeating President Trump? Can it become an election that unites America? Can we leverage what unifies America, and get an (unrigged) democracy that could work? That’s the hope described in this six episodes — Another Way, Season One.
Listen →
ELECTORS FREEDOM
We are currently providing legal help to the electors in Colorado and Washington who were threatened or fined by their state government for voting their conscience in 2016.
Learn more →
RANKED CHOICE VOTING FOR PRESIDENT
End the spoiler effect once and for all.
The ability to vote for a candidate who can represent you best is an essential part of a democracy. Yet, because of the two-party system in America, third party candidates are too often “spoilers,” not choices. Learn more →
WHAT WE FIGHT FOR
EQUAL
REPRESENTATION
Citizens should be represented equally in elections
EQUAL
DEPENDENCE
Representatives should depend on citizens equally
EQUAL FREEDOM
TO VOTE
Citizens should have the same opportunity to vote
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