E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: President Biden, Push The Voting Bills Now
“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 […]
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President Biden Must Use His Bully Pulpit On Voting Rights — Now
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Democracy Reforms Election Interference Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellWERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | DECEMBER 16, 2021 Yesterday, President Joe Biden said, “There’s nothing domestically more important than voting rights.” This is an important statement […]
The Democracy Summit Highlights The Urgent Need To Repair Our Own Democracy
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellFRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 9, 2021 As the United States holds its Democracy Summit this week for more than 100 countries, our own democracy […]
Democracy 21 Report: A Timeline Of The Senate Filibuster, 1806 – 2021
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellView And Download This Report As A PDF By: Fred Wertheimer, President, Democracy 21 | December 2021 The United States Senate is facing a […]
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
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellAs 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 […]
5 Ways Trump’s Big Lie Is Setting The Stage To Rig & Steal Future Elections
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Democracy Reforms Election Interference Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellFRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 2, 2021 We need to be clear-eyed about what former President Trump, his acolytes, and state and congressional Republican […]
Sue Halpern In The New Yorker: Biden’s Global Democracy Summit Raises An Awkward Question: Can Ours Endure?
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellIn the months since President Joe Biden took office, “the prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably,” Sue Halpern writes today on The New […]
E.J. Dionne Jr. In The Washington Post: “The Hypocrisy Argument On The Filibuster Is Itself Phony”
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellIn 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 […]
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
|Press Releases |Campaign Finance Lawsby Jackie HowellWhen 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 […]
Nearly 9 Months And Still No Senate Action On Voting Rights. Here’s Why.
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Democracy Reforms Filibuster Voting Rightsby Jackie HowellFRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | November 18, 2021 On March 3, the House of Representatives passed the For the People Act, landmark legislation to establish […]
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