Sep 23, 2023
New Mexican voters should feel safe and supported as they cast their votes. This year, Common Cause New Mexico is ramping up efforts and beginning to train volunteers over the summer in advance of early voting. What follows could be a template for action in any state....
Aug 29, 2023
We are looking at a full-on attack on our hard-fought, hard-won freedoms including our very democracy.Much of this is thwarted by Congress or the courts. The stakes of the election are stark as the GOP is trying to reverse generations of racial progress in America.We...
Jun 14, 2023
The Supreme Court, surprised us deciding that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 ruling. He was...
Apr 5, 2023
NA long time members Ken and Mack were part of a nationwide team helping Wisconsin Supreme Court flip to a progressive majority. As you probably know, Judge Janet Protasiewicz won by 11% (over 200,000 votes!) and Ken and Mack’s team contributed 200 letters. This...
Feb 24, 2023
Two pieces of legislation that may soon be signed into law in North Dakota would make it possible to restrict libraries and, in some cases, to imprison librarians. As a closeted gay man, libraries were where I went to find stories that made me feel I could fit in the...
Jan 30, 2023
The killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black man in Memphis, at the hands of Black police should prompt outrage and condemnation from racial justice activists, police reform advocates and law enforcement officials. Problems of race and policing are a function of an entrenched...
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