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May 2025

The reform pathway for Pro Rep and Ranked Choice Voting
How do you get a city or state with millions of people to vote “yes” on changing the electoral system? Here is a guide for how to do that
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Steven Hill
2
The coming political realignment of the Democrats and Republicans
Who are the real advocates for the working- and middle-classes? Is it a new generation of populist GOP leaders? Or the Democratic Party?
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Steven Hill
9
European democracies lead the way – with Children’s Parliaments
As Donald Trump trashes American democracy, the democracies of Europe emerge as leading lights for the 21st century
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Steven Hill
2
Will Democrats retake the House due to Trump’s bumbling?
The architecture of winner-take-all elections make Democrats’ chances in 2026 an uphill climb
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Steven Hill
3

April 2025

Trump's Project 2025 is a threat to democracy
The White House is slowly dismantling one federal agency after another in pursuit of an audacious “soft overthrow” of US democracy
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Steven Hill
April lessons: in truth, the South won the Civil War, not the North
…and Trump is the heir to that toxic legacy
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Steven Hill
Ranked Choice Voting as a stepping stone to Proportional Representation
Voter support for ranked choice voting translates into support for proportional representation in ways that support for other reforms do not
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Eveline Dowling
9
How the White House plans to gain control over US elections
Trump executive orders aim to politicize the federal agencies that oversee elections and media regulation, the FEC and the FCC
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Steven Hill
1

March 2025

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