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Join Senator Gillibrand for the Biden Publish the ERA Digital Town Hall

Posted on November 25, 2024 (November 25, 2024)

As attacks on the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQIA+ individuals surge nationwide, a second Trump term comes with grave new threats spelled out in Project 2025. With so many freedoms on the line, President Biden has the authority, responsibility, and opportunity to certify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) before his term ends. The ERA
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U.S. Department of Justice Files Amicus Brief to Support Appeal by Colorado Civil Rights Organizations in Voter Intimidation Suit

Posted on November 15, 2024 (November 20, 2024)

Election Protection

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. These groups, represented by Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells, filed their appeal brief last week, challenging the
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Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification

Posted on November 13, 2024 (November 18, 2024)

Election Protection

A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification. Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessed
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We need your help! Can you take 30 seconds to vote for our panel at this summer’s Netroots Nation in St. Louis?

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Bold Strategies for Achieving Political Equality Through a New Supreme Court

The unexpected death of the late Justice Antonin Scalia has opened a rare window of opportunity to undo perhaps the most despised Supreme Court decision of the modern era: Citizens United, the 5-4 decision that overturned decades of precedent to rule that corporations and unions can spend unlimited amounts to influence our elections.With a new 4-4 divide on the high court, and with the hope of a progressive court majority in 2016 or early 2017, the time to chart a course for reversing Citizens United and its doctrinal predecessor, Buckley v. Valeo, has finally arrived. It’s now time for campaign finance and corporate power reformers to move from defense to offense, and to heed a new call to redeem the promise of American democracy.

Submitted by: Scott Greytak
Moderator: John Nichols
Panelists: John Bonifaz

What are the takeaways for people who attend this panel? Why is this panel important to the progressive movement?

Attendees will be asked to unify around our country’s profound need for intentionality and action on campaign finance reform, and to join a new constituency for change. The panel will kickstart a boldly progressive, radically inclusive, and aggressively impact-driven effort to overturn Citizens United, to make real the American ideal of “one person, one vote,” and to reclaim American democracy for all.

Why should the Netroots Nation community vote for your session?

Last year’s Netroots Nation was the largest and most influential multiracial, multigenerational conference of 2015. This session seeks to continue last year’s conversation on campaign finance to its requisite end by connecting our current constitutional moment with bold new initiatives for turning the tide against big-money political dominance. Its seeks to connect the ambitions of activists and academics alike by challenging all attendees to join in an active redirection of their energies toward real, equitable, and sustainable campaign finance reforms.