Press Releases Archive

Wertheimer/Eisen Op-Ed In The Washington Post: Fixing The Electoral Count Act Is No Substitute For Real Election Reform

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  No one should fall for the Electoral Count Act “bait & switch,” D21 President Fred Wertheimer and Norman Eisen, President Obama’s ethics czar, write.   With the Senate finally scheduling action to address the national epidemic of voter suppression and election hijacking laws, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other Republicans have suddenly found an alternative they […]

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E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: Real Accountability For Jan. 6 Requires Political Reform

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 “The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was an attempt, through force and violence, to overturn the will of the majority expressed in a free and fair election,” Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in a new op-ed. “In a well-functioning democratic republic,” he writes, “its anniversary would engender a commitment across party lines to protecting and enhancing […]

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D21 Vice President Matt Keller Discusses Status Of Voting Rights Legislation And More In New Interview

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  The Surreal News  |  Friday, December 17, 2021   “We’re on the cusp of passing the most transformational reform and voting rights legislation since Watergate,” Democracy 21 Vice President Matt Keller tells Lew Lorini, host of The Surreal News, on his program last week. The Surreal News airs weekly on WSLR-FM in Sarasota, Florida […]

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Op-Ed: Catholic Sister Quincy Howard, Arrested For Voting Rights Protest, Explains: “Our Democracy Is Worth It.”

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  “We have a national responsibility.” – Dominican Sister Quincy Howard, O.P. In October, Dominican Sister Quincy Howard, O.P., along with other civil rights activists were arrested in Washington, DC for their non-violent protests urging passage of voting rights legislation – the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. “Despite the […]

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E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: President Biden, Push The Voting Bills Now

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“It’s time to make it all about democracy.” – E.J. Dionne Jr. “Precisely because the dangers to democracy often don’t become obvious to everyone until it’s too late, Biden needs to make raising the alarm his priority. ‘We are in a battle for the soul of this nation,’ he said in 2019. We still are,” […]

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Democracy 21 Report: A Timeline Of The Senate Filibuster, 1806 – 2021

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  View And Download This Report As A PDF By: Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21  |  December 2021 The United States Senate is facing a decision of historic consequence with the fate of our democracy at stake. Will 50 Senators plus the Vice President be able to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and override […]

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As Democracy Summit Approaches, President Biden Must Make The Freedom To Vote Act His Absolute Priority, D21 Vice President Matt Keller Writes In The Hill

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As the White House prepares to host a Summit for Democracy on December 9, President Joe Biden is “failing in his efforts to restore faith in American Democracy at home and abroad by standing on the sidelines as The Freedom to Vote Act is being blocked by a filibuster in the Senate,” Democracy 21 Vice President Matt Keller writes in an […]

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Sue Halpern In The New Yorker: Biden’s Global Democracy Summit Raises An Awkward Question: Can Ours Endure?

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In the months since President Joe Biden took office, “the prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably,” Sue Halpern writes today on The New Yorker website. “It’s against this gloomy backdrop that the Biden Administration will be hosting a virtual Summit for Democracy in early December, with invitees from more than a hundred countries. […]

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E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: “The Hypocrisy Argument On The Filibuster Is Itself Phony”

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In a new op-ed, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. lays out the urgent need to reform the filibuster: “[T]he core reason the filibuster must be reformed is the moral imperative of passing bills to defend democracy.” Reforming the filibuster, Dionne writes, is the only way to “undo the voter suppression and election subversion laws […]

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Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21, Common Cause, & CREW File Amicus Brief Supporting The FEC’s Efforts To Prevent Corruption In Ted Cruz Loan Repayment Case

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When candidates raise funds after an election to repay personal loans to their own campaigns, the risk of corruption is self-evident and voters lose out on essential knowledge until it is too late.  The Campaign Legal Center (CLC), joined by Democracy 21, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and Common Cause, filed an amicus […]

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