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Congress Bill Spotlight: renaming Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America”

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Project 2025: Part II

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The Fulcrum
By The FulcrumMay 29, 2023
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There is no America without democracy, no democracy without voting, and no informed voting without respectful debate.

On this day of remembrance of those who have died to protect and defend our democracy, let us all make a pledge to support these three principles:

  • The right of all American citizens to participate in a transparent, safe and secure election process.
  • The peaceful conduct of all elections and the peaceful transfer of power.
  • The treatment of all our fellow citizens with dignity and respect, and never with contempt.

And let us remember “Freedom is Never Free.”

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Primary Reform and Pivotal Voters

Primary Reform and Pivotal Voters

From the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers:

Primary Reform and Pivotal Voters: A discussion of research on how ideological purity gets translated into representation, the concept of the pivotal voter, and what’s on the horizon.

Join the National Association of Nonpartisan Reforms for a conversation with Sam Wang, Ph.D., from Princeton University, regarding his research on the impact of primary reform on electoral outcomes, how "pivotal voters" play into the dynamic, and what electoral reformers should keep in mind moving forward.

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Video: The dignity index

Video: The dignity index

UNITE is a national initiative to ease divisions, prevent violence, and solve problems. UNITE designed the Dignity Index, an eight-point scale that measures the level of contempt or dignity in a selected passage of speech. Lower scores (1-4) reflect a lack of dignity and the presence of contempt, with the lowest score (1) showing the most contempt. The higher scores (5-8) reflect language grounded in dignity, with the highest score (8) showing the most dignity.

In September 2022, a team from the University of Utah that included the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, the David Eccles School of Business, and the Hinckley Institute of Politics joined the project UNITE effort to pilot the Dignity Index in Utah. With a team of 22 student coders from politically and ideologically diverse backgrounds, the Utah pilot tested using the Dignity Index in coding passages in Utah political campaigns.

Video: How America's two-party doom loop is driving division

Video: How America's two-party doom loop is driving division

"We're in a doom loop of toxic politics," says political reform scholar Lee Drutman. In this new video from Unite America, Drutman's doom loop theory is explained and we unpack how the doom loop threatens the very fabric of our nation.

How did we get here? What are the impacts of the doom loop? And most importantly, how do we get out?

Video: How independents can save American Democracy

Video: How independents can save American Democracy

Open Primaries is building a coalition of diverse Americans to enact open primaries in all 50 states.

Why do we need open primaries? Millions of independent voters - the fastest growing segment of the electorate - are excluded from voting in closed partisan primaries. Voters want to be able to choose from among all the candidates. Closed partisan primaries don't allow that.

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