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Just the Facts: Canadian Tariffs

Project 2025: How the White House Plans to Gain Control Over U.S. Elections

Project 2025: How the White House Plans to Gain Control Over U.S. Elections

Redistricting

Redistricting

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Luke Combs, politics and healing our nation's divide

A fictional, fanciful sign depicts the results of voter suppression through the unfair, partisan manipulation of district lines (gerrymandering).

The worst congressional gerrymanders of the 2020s

Project 2025, Phase II: The Bureaucracy

Project 2025, Phase II: The Bureaucracy

Podcast: Key takeaways from the Wisconsin primaries with Madison City Attorney Michael Haas

Podcast: Key takeaways from the Wisconsin primaries with Madison City Attorney Michael Haas
The Fulcrum
By The FulcrumSep 08, 2022
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Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine spoke with longtime Wisconsin election administrator and Madison City Attorney Michael Haas about conducting Wisconsin elections, including the state’s August 9th primary, in the state’s hyper-polarized atmosphere.

Localities can often take steps to protect election workers, such as by creating task forces that respond to election worker threats and adopting meaningful penalties for threatening and harassing election workers.

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Education is Key to Winning the AI Revolution

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Education is Key to Winning the AI Revolution

As the Department of Education faces rounds of layoffs and threats of dissolution, prompted by the Department of Government Efficiency( DOGE), it is urgent to rethink and rededicate efforts to strengthen, broaden, and enhance STEM education from early childhood through post-secondary programs.

In order to realize the promise of an AI-driven future, technology and education leaders must address the persistent gaps between supply and demand for all highly skilled technical workers in the U.S.

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Defining the Democracy Movement: Stephen Richer
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Defining the Democracy Movement: Stephen Richer

The Fulcrum presents The Path Forward: Defining the Democracy Reform Movement. Scott Warren's weekly interviews engage diverse thought leaders to elevate the conversation about building a thriving and healthy democratic republic that fulfills its potential as a national social and political game-changer. This series is the start of focused collaborations and dialogue led by The Bridge Alliance and The Fulcrum teams to help the movement find a path forward.

Stephen Richer is the former Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona, and a current Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center at Harvard University.

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Together, We Must Repair a “House Divided”

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Together, We Must Repair a “House Divided”

“My Father’s house has many rooms…” John 14:2-3

Lately, I’ve been seeing everything through a political lens whether I want to or not. So, it didn’t surprise me that a Biblical verse at a recent memorial service got me thinking about then-Senator Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 speech about a “House Divided.”

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Should the Occupational Safety And Health Administration Be Abolished?

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Recent legislation reintroduced in Congress has sparked renewed debate about the role of federal workplace safety regulations in America. The Nullify Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act, commonly known as the "NOSHA Act," proposes the complete elimination of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsible for ensuring safe and healthy working conditions across the United States since 1970.

The bill, originally introduced in 2021 and recently reintroduced by Arizona Republican Congressman Andy Biggs, consists of just two substantive sections. Its purpose is clear and direct: "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished."

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