On Wednesday, February 21, kickoff parties to learn how to collect signatures for the Promote the Vote: Michigan Ballot Initiative will be held across the state. This ballot initiative will provide “full and fair access to the ballot box.” Why do we need these reforms? Along with Mississippi, Michigan has enacted the least modernizations to…
DetailsWhat’s the fastest way to fix a broken system? Take it over, say female candidates running for office in 2018 for the first time. Over the past terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad year, an unprecedented number of women have been motivated to dive into politics for the first time, many with the hope of defeating or succeeding men who’ve…
DetailsVoters Not Politicians (VNP) and the League of Women Voters lawsuit have begun the fight against gerrymandering in Michigan. Now, a new initiative called Promote the Vote (PtV) takes another step forward and deals with the issues of voter suppression–I.D. laws, absentee ballots, military voting, and others. PtV is not affiliated with VNP and is…
DetailsDiverging decisions this week by federal judges in North Carolina and Pennsylvania are certain to draw the Supreme Court’s interest as it mulls whether to curtail partisan gerrymandering. Click here to learn more. – New York Times
Environmentalists and proponents of deregulation alike say they expect fewer high-profile announcements over all and more action in the courts, where both sides will fight over the future of deregulation. “You may not see as many fireworks as there were in the past, but I think it’s going to be an even more significant year,”…
DetailsThe tax plan was already unequal. The version Trump signed into law is even more so. Republicans have managed to take a tax plan that was already tilted heavily toward corporations and the wealthiest Americans and shift the balance even further in favor of the rich. Vox.com
President Donald Trump has spent the past year steadily undoing Obama-era environmental protections, especially rules designed to fight climate change. By law, agencies must go through a lengthy process to rescind or rewrite many rules, but… Read more.
DetailsVoters Not Politicians (VNP), has defied all odds. The Michigan pop-up group fighting partisan gerrymandering that no one had ever heard of, accomplished what all the experts claimed was impossible: 425,000 signatures in less than four months, with a 100% volunteer force of newly energized and passionate petition circulators. Many of these new activists had…
DetailsAs 2017 comes to a close, MLIVE reports two groups have set the stage for major challenges to Michigan’s redistricting process in the coming months.One group, Voters Not Politicians, rallied thousands of volunteers across the state to drum up enough signatures for a ballot petition that would create an independent redistricting commission in time for…
DetailsPolitical reports that Rohrabacher-Farr, a little-known and even less discussed amendment that protects state-legal medical marijuana programs from federal interference, is close to expiring. If the government shuts down at the expiration of the current continuous resolution on December 22, or if negotiations in an upcoming appropriations conference committee fail to insert it in the…
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