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Medium: Massachusetts Equal Votes Update
Medium: Equal Citizens December 2018 Update
Washington Post: Happy Hour Roundup
Lawrence Lessig explains why the political reform bill Democrats will offer next year is the most important civil rights legislation in decades.
USA Today: Democratic House will address most important civil rights issue in half century
H.R. 1 would establish, for the first time in American history, a system to fund congressional campaigns through small-dollar matching funds; thus would it liberate members of Congress from dependence on large private funders. The bill would brilliantly leverage...
Anchorage Daily News: Challenging super PACs in Alaska
We are longtime Alaskans. We’ve not been major donors to any political campaign ourselves but, with some alarm, we watched the deluge of political ads in the run-up to the November elections and could see that millions upon millions of dollars were spent in an attempt...
New York Times: Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America
Medium: Contrary to GOP leaders, Conservative Voters Favor Democracy Reform
EqualCitizens.US Announces National Ranked Choice Voting Effort for 2020 Election
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: November 19, 208 Contact: Blair Fitzgibbon (202) 503-6141 [email protected] EqualCitizens.US Announces National Ranked-Choice Voting Effort for 2020 Election On the heels of Maine electing the first ever US Congress Member using...
Bangor Daily News: Maine led the nation with ranked-choice voting. Will others follow?
USA Today: Ranked-choice voting worked in Maine. Now we should use it in presidential races.
Medium: Equal Citizens November 2018 Update
The Guardian: Beto O’Rourke’s biggest blind spot cost him Texas. Democrats, take note
There is an uncertain hopefulness among Democrats just now about the party’s victories on Tuesday. All are relieved that Democrats captured the House, though many are puzzled that even this was so difficult. Beyond the House, the victories were even less certain....
Slate: Samantha Bee Finds a Way to Talk About Campaign Finance Reform That Won’t Make Your Eyes Glaze Over
Medium: Besides The Partisan Battle, Here Are Some Important Fights To Watch Tonight
USA Today: Donald Trump is no electoral phenom. He’s more like Michael Dukakis than Ronald Reagan.
Vox: Seattle’s radical plan to fight big money in politics
BC Law: The Electoral College Dilemma
Medium: How Young People Could Have Stopped Donald Trump and George W. Bush
The 2018 midterms may be the most important election in recent memory, with the potential to stem the rightward tide of our politics or enable it further. In fact, 62 percent of Americans surveyed believe this election to be the most important midterm in their...
The Hill: Electoral College Confusions
The Electoral College is returning to the center of American political debate. But fortunately, this time, the questions are getting raised before there is an actual vote in a particular presidential election. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rallied a Democratic Socialist...
Reddit: AMA with Lessig
New Hampshire Union Leader: NH residents react to NH Supreme Court’s move on SB3
BoingBoing: Lawrence Lessig explains corruption in words small enough for the Supreme Court to understand
Lawrence Lessig was once best-known as the special master in the Microsoft Antitrust Case, then he was best known as the co-founder of Creative Commons, then as a fire-breathing corruption fighter: in America, Compromised, a long essay (or short nonfiction book),...
Boston Globe: Could Maine’s new ranked-choice voting change American elections?
ON A COOL MONDAY EVENING in late September, Kyle Bailey stands at a high-top table at the back of Nonesuch River Brewing in Scarborough, Maine. The brewery’s customers, bundled in flannels and fleece, are talking with friends over burgers or poutine, mostly unaware of...
USA Today: Trump hones midterm campaign themes: Kavanaugh, impeachment, nicknames
Donald Trump is back in the place he loves best: the campaign trail. The president is logging thousands of miles on Air Force One with the midterm elections approaching Nov. 6. He is fighting to prevent a Democratic takeover of Congress, which would derail much of his...
The Hill: Super PACs driving the midterms unsurprisingly
With a little over a month to go before the midterm elections, Super PACs just set a dubious record: with total independent expenditures at $549 million and counting, 2018 has passed 2014 as the midterm election with the most Super PAC spending in history. And,...
WGBH: Minority Rule: Why Our Undemocratic Republic Must Give Way To Something Else
If something can’t go on forever, then it won’t. And so it is with the current state of our democracy, which awards disproportionate power to an ever-shrinking slice of the electorate. Today the president, the Senate, and the Supreme Court reflect the will of a...
Medium: My new podcast “Another Way” goes live today
Lawrence Lessig Launches Podcast Series Ahead of Midterms
On Friday, February 2, 2018, lawyers with Equal Citizens filed a lawsuit against the Alaska Public Offices Commission, or “APOC” in order to create a case that can work its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court with the goal of eliminating Super PACs across the nation.
Citizen Truth: Citizens United and Super PACs Targeted in Pivotal Alaskan Lawsuit
There’s a lawsuit in Alaska working to overturn the infamous 2010 Citizens United ruling that opened the door for super PACs to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns. On Thursday, arguments began before Anchorage Superior Court Judge Andrew...
NBC Anchorage: Are super PACs and dark money corrupting Alaska politics? State court to hear both sides Thursday
The Eagle Tribune: Public funds can change dynamics of elections
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, who has galvanized New Hampshire residents with N.H. Rebellion walks, and actor Sam Waterston of TV’s “Law and Order,” discoursed on stage at Capital Center for the Arts, sponsored by Open Democracy (Granny D’s group pushing to...
Jamaica Plain Gazette: Want a better president, better elections? States need to stop winner take all
Journal Sentinel: Here’s how you can register to vote: Print out this form
Concord Monitor: Advocates think 2019 is the year for publicly funded elections
IVN: Courts to Hear Legal Challenge to Electoral College
What can be done to improve the way we elect our president? The current system, where nearly every state gives all of its electoral votes to whatever candidate wins that state, is nonsensical. It throws out tens of millions of votes and forces candidates to focus on...
Washington Post: Here’s how newspapers could help you register to vote
Newspapers across the country should follow the Times and print a voter registration form on their front pages. And what better day for the media to promote democratic participation than on Sept. 25, National Voter Registration...
Medium: Equal Citizens September 2018 Update
Democracy Café: Why Joaquin Gonzalez has joined the all-out effort to overhaul the Electoral College
When Joaquin Gonzalez heard about the effort of Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig and other compatriots to challenge and prospectively overhaul the 'unrepresentative' way Electoral College votes are distributed via a winner-take-all system, he immediately reached...
Medium: Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport: What We Learned From a Voting Experiment with Bassnectar
When most older people hear electronic dance music (EDM), they think of reckless young people wasting their lives away on mindless indulgence, and to be honest, we were somewhat skeptical when Bassnectar invited us to run an election reform education program at his...
KALW: Lawrence Lessig analyzes how corrupt institutions erode the common good
On this edition of Your Call, we’ll talk with law professor Lawrence Lessig, who has spent much of his career trying to fix our broken political system.
WGBH: Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig On His Legal Fight To End “Winner-Take-All” Rules In Electoral College
Is the Electoral College broken? So argues Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, a former presidential candidate and the founder of the non-profit group Equal Citizens, who along with people like former Mass. Governor Bill Weld, is leading a series of lawsuits to fix...
Medium: Why Democracy Reform? Our Summer Interns Explain.
For those fighting to fix our broken democracy, there is often a tendency to drown in the specifics or technicalities.
Medium: Stop The Madness: It’s Time to Pass Automatic Voter Registration
The 2018 midterm elections are less than three months away and grassroots organizations are now laser-focused on registering voters.
Washington Journal: Lawrence Lessig Discusses Legal Challenges to the Electoral College
Medium: Equal Citizens August 2018 Update
Blog: The State of The Democracy Movement: June and July Edition
The state of our democracy is constantly in flux. Even for those who spend their time in democracy’s trenches, it’s very hard to keep track of everything that happens across all 50 states.
Commonwealth Magazine: Galvin, Zakim trade verbal punches
The Blaze: Group sues four states to challenge winner-take-all system for Electoral College selection
NBC Boston: High-Profile Attorneys Push for Change to Electoral College System
Techcrunch: Russian indictments show that the US needs federal oversight of election security
TechCrunch, July 18, 2018 President Trump’s Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin, on the heels of 12 Russian intelligence officials indicted for hacking the 2016 election, made it clear that this administration has zero commitment to protect our elections from future...
Anchorage Daily News: A lawsuit in Alaska can begin the end of SuperPACs
So the first steps toward finally restoring limits on SuperPACs could take place in Alaska. Whether history will be made here depends on how seriously judges consider our framers' attempts to prevent corruption.
Medium: Equal Citizens July 2018 Update
Medium: 150 years later: Can the 14th Amendment be used to fix the Electoral College?
The Hill: Presidential electors deserve the right to vote their conscience
TechCrunch: Advocacy groups knock ‘unjust’ copyright-extending CLASSICS Act
Medium: The Electoral College Reform Movement Made Great Strides This Month, But Is It Enough?
Houston Chronicle: Texas’ winner-take-all elections mean unfair results
NBC Think: This Is How To Ultimately Beat The NRA
Wired: Congress’ Latest Move to Extend Copyright Protection is Misguided
Washington Post: Mick Mulvaney shows why we need to radically change our elections
Newsweek: Mick Mulvaney Warns Bankers: I Only Spoke to Lobbyists Who Paid Me
Business Insider: ‘This puts a target on his back’: Ethics experts say the FBI should investigate Trump’s budget director for pay for play
Jurist: Colorado presidential electors bound by state law to echo popular vote
KOAA News 5: Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against Secretary of State Wayne Williams
The Denver Post: Federal judge tosses “faithless” presidential elector lawsuit against Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams
The Washington Free Beacon: Judge Rules Members of Electoral College Must Follow Popular Vote
AP: Colorado Electoral College reps told to follow popular vote
The Colorado Independent: A federal judge dismissed the ‘Hamilton Elector’ lawsuit in Colorado. But that’s what they wanted.
Denver Post: The “winner-take-all” Electoral College system used by 48 states, including Colorado, sees court challenges
My Statesman: Suit seeks to split Texas’ 38 electoral votes as part of national fight
USA Today: The winner-take-all presidential system is unconstitutional. We’re taking it to court.
USA Today: The winner-take-all presidential system is unconstitutional. We’re taking it to court.
Associated Press: Group Picks Alaska to Challenge Unlimited Campaign Donations
Equal Citizens Files Alaska Suit on Super PAC Spending
On Friday, February 2, 2018, lawyers with Equal Citizens filed a lawsuit against the Alaska Public Offices Commission, or “APOC” in order to create a case that can work its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court with the goal of eliminating Super PACs across the nation.
Blog: Now we are moving against Super PACs
AP: Group Picks Alaska to Challenge Unlimited Campaign Donations
Blog: Important Update on the Equal Votes project
HeraldNet: Rogue electors are undeterred by their latest legal setback
Blog: It’s Time to Change the Way We Elect Presidents
Columbia Basin Herald: Fine Upheld for ‘Faithless Elector’
The Spokesman-Review: ‘Faithless’ electors $1,000 fines upheld
Blog: Electors Case Update: Round 1 Goes To The State. But The Fight Goes On.
Equal Citizens Provides Legal Support for 3 WA Presidential Electors Who Were Fined for Voting Their Conscience in 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: December 6, 2017 Contact: Blair Fitzgibbon (202) 503-6141 [email protected] Equal Citizens Provides Legal Support for 3 WA Presidential Electors Who Were Fined for Voting Their Conscience in 2016 On Friday December 8, EqualCitizens.US...
Blog: An important case about the role of presidential electors heads to court in Washington
The Hill: The 2018 candidates who repair the common ground of our democracy
Equal Citizens.US Announces Agreement with CO Dep of State to Enable Quick Resolution of Critical Constitutional Question
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: October 25, 2017 Contact: Blair Fitzgibbon (202) 503-6141 [email protected] Equal Citizens.US Announces Agreement with CO Dep of State to Enable Quick Resolution of Critical Constitutional Question EqualCitizens.US announced today an...
The Colorado Independent: Colorado Sec. of State makes a deal with electoral college members suing him: ‘We just want an answer to the constitutional question’
Channel 7 – Denver (ABC): Colorado secretary of state and ‘Hamilton Electors’ reach deal to expedite case
Webby Podcast: Season 2, Episode 1
The Daily Caller: Prosecuting Or Removing ‘Faithless’ Presidential Electors Is Unconstitutional
USA Today: Let’s fix Electoral College. It’ll be easy compared to gerrymandering
Blog: The Road To The Supreme Court
The Colorado Springs Independent: Springs man at the heart of federal lawsuit to upend the Electoral College
The Colorado Independent: Colorado Electoral College Lawsuit: A deal for nation’s highest court to hear a big case faster?
Blog: Why Equal Votes And The National Popular Vote Work Well Together
Blog: Why Courts, Part 2: Courts Are Good At Analyzing Equality
Denver Post: Third Colorado presidential elector joins lawsuit against Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams
Third Electoral College Elector Joins Equal Citizens Lawsuit Against Colorado Secretary of State
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: September 20, 2017 Third Electoral College Elector Joins Equal Citizens Lawsuit Against Colorado Secretary of State BOSTON, MA - EQUALCITIZENS.US announced today that 2016 Colorado Presidential Elector Micheal Baca has joined the lawsuit...
The Colorado Independent: ‘Faithless elector’ to Colorado’s secretary of state: Now I’m suing you
Blog: Why Courts, Part 1: The Court Has To Give Us An Answer
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