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Lee Drutman, Perry Bacon Jr, Joe Walsh, Mark CopelovitchDeep forces are shaping our democracy. Change happens slowly. Then all at once.
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Campaign finance reform for a multiparty America
When I talk about proportional representation or fusion voting, I usually get a question about the money. What’s the point of redesigning the electoral system if billionaires can still buy the results?
My answer used to be: Do the electora...
Why you can’t just ban gerrymandering
(Editor’s note: This piece is adapted from my 2021 report on redistricting commissions)
Ban gerrymandering. It sounds so obvious. So simple. Of course we should do it.
Except, there’s just one problem. What is a gerrymander, anyway?
Y...
A brief, 237-year history of gerrymandering in America
(Editor’s note: This piece is adapted from my 2021 report on redistricting)
The gerrymandering wars of the late 2020s are ugly ugly ugly. Maximum warfare. Total Gerrymaxxing. Demockracy, pronounced with the emphasis on the mock.
Gerrymand...
Why Democracy Reforms (Not Affordability) Must Be the Focus of the Next Democratic Trifecta
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The Supreme Court killed voting rights and escalated the gerrymandering wars. Here’s what Congress needs to do in response
Thomas Nast, Harpers Weekly, Dec 23, 1876 (the end of Reconstruction)
It has been forty-eight hours since the Supreme Court gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. And, as anticipated, the gerrymandering wars have already escalated like...
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Senior Fellow, New America // Author, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop // Co-founder, Fix Our House // podcaster, Politics in Question // lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
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A former Tea Party Congressman and right-wing radio host, I torched my career to challenge Donald Trump & the MAGA GOP head on. Director of The Social Contract. Co-Founder of PAXIS. Founder of HopeNotFearProject.org. Conservative Democrat.
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