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| Oct 12, 2026 | Judge orders Trump administration to immediately stop taxpayer-funded TV ads | A New York federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately stop airing government-funded ads criticized as propaganda and aimed at influencing the midterm election.
The temporary restraining order by Judge Jennifer Rochon also... |
| Oct 12, 2026 | US judge orders halt to taxpayer-funded ads featuring Trump | A US judge on Sunday (Oct 11) blocked the Trump administration from using taxpayer money to pay for political advertisements, after publicly funded television ads glorifying US President Donald Trump began airing in late September and spark... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Two lawsuits challenge Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads, alleging they violate propaganda law | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALI SWENSON
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two lawsuits filed Wednesday challenged President Donald Trump’s recent series of federally funded television advertisements, which promote his political message wh... |
| Oct 4, 2026 | Colorado’s top secretary of state candidates want to depoliticize the office. But their approaches differ widely. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Candidates running to be Colorado’s next secretary of state acknowledge that, for better or worse, the office of the state’s top election official has become more high-profile in recent years.
That... |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Judge isn’t swayed by government’s claims that plans for an ‘anti-weaponization fund’ are dead | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge who blocked the creation of a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” for compensating President Donald Trump’s political allies wasn’t sw... |
| Aug 22, 2026 | Despite threats from White House, Colorado election officials predict little change to 2026 general election | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Executive orders to limit mail-in ballots, lawsuits over voter registration data, threats to funding and more have poured out of the White House leading up to the 2026 general election.
But despite... |
| Jun 28, 2026 | Unethical campaign tactics have no place in Boulder (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Shortly after we published our Democratic Primary endorsement editorial, a so-called “October surprise” hit one of the races.
The campaign manager for Edie Hooton, who is running for the Congressio... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Judge extends block on Trump’s $1.8 billion ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge agreed on Friday to extend indefinitely a court-ordered block on the Trump administration’s creation and operation of a $1.8 billion sett... |
| Jun 10, 2026 | Florida court allows use of new US House districts drawn by Republicans for midterm elections | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DAVID A. LIEB
The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed new U.S. House districts drawn by Republicans to be used in the midterm elections, marking another victory for the GOP in a nationwid... |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Two Jeffco women compete for Democratic nomination for Colorado secretary of state | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Democratic primary for Colorado secretary of state features two Jefferson County women who have spent their careers strengthening voting rights and who vow to protect the state’s mail-in ballot... |
| May 18, 2026 | Breaking down ranked choice voting with Dillon Rankin (Five Questions) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Dillon Rankin is not your average 19-year-old.
In 2024, he founded Ranked Choice Voting for Longmont, a nonpartisan, nonprofit political organization that advocates for — you guessed it — implement... |
| May 15, 2026 | New US House map in Florida accused of violating state ban on partisan gerrymandering | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DAVID A. LIEB and MIKE SCHNEIDER
New U.S. House districts that could help Republicans win several additional seats in Florida got their first test in court Friday against assertions that they vi... |
| May 7, 2026 | Redistricting race to the bottom ramps up, as GOP eyes more states to draw new House maps | Republican-led states across the South have begun the process to redistrict after a Supreme Court ruling last week that invalidated a majority-minority congressional district in Louisiana.
States like Tennessee, Alabama and South Carolina h... |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Pete Hegseth’s holy war (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
As Donald Trump’s war with Iran grows more volatile by the day, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bloodthirst and proselytizing risks spinning the conflagration further out of control.
In a war with... |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Karen Celestino-Horseman: Voting rules could disenfranchise women, elderly | |
| Dec 24, 2025 | These U.S. politicians made the most from stocks in 2025 | Although 2025 has been marked by heightened scrutiny of congressional stock trading, several lawmakers continued to participate in the market, recording massive gains.
Public Congress trade filings highlighted by Common Cause on December 12... |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Colorado lawmakers face ethics complaints over Vail retreat — and how it was paid for | A nonprofit group formally alleged Wednesday that more than a dozen Colorado lawmakers violated the state’s prohibition on gift-giving when they asked a prominent dark-money organization to help pay for an October mountain retreat.
Colorado... |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Trump allies, undeterred by setbacks in courts and Congress, push anew for citizenship proof to vote | By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement for voting in U.S. elections hasn’t been able to pass Congress and has been blocked by the courts, so allies of President Donald Trum... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Dr. Helmut Love Launches Mayoral Campaign to Reform Atlanta's Pay-to-Play Politics | Dr. Helmut Love Candidate for Atlanta Mayor
Dr. Helmut Love announcing his candidacy.
Dr. Helmut Love's Six-Point platform: ATLANTA RISES
Dr. Love pledges to harness the city’s creative energy to end the decades-long culture of “institution... |
| Aug 25, 2025 | As Democrats fight ‘fire with fire,’ gerrymandering opponents seek a path forward | Other states are now likely to follow, as Republicans and Democrats scramble for a political leg up.
But gerrymandering opponents say the current moment has the potential to produce new energy for their movement. More people are paying atte... |
| Aug 16, 2025 | The next steps in California Democrats’ plan to counter Texas Republicans’ redistricting push | Lawmakers will hold hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday on a package of bills to establish the new congressional map, declare a Nov. 4 special election and authorize to reimburse local government for the costs. Elections committees in both ho... |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses Of Prisoners And Mentally Ill People | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | The coming arms race on gerrymandering (Editorial) | That’s not how it works, of course, but whatever.
Democratic governors of California, Illinois and other blue states are now contemplating responding by redrawing their own district lines to give Democrats more seats from their states next ... |
| Feb 28, 2025 | The Changing Landscape of Success: Education, Business, and the Future | In a world where success is often measured by degrees and prestigious titles, a seismic shift is underway. Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, has thrown a wrench into the traditional narrative. He argues that a college degree is not the g... |
| Feb 27, 2025 | Letters to the Editor | Letters to the editor: Boulder needs to stand up to Suncor; weaponizing the government against the people; is this really what I voted for? | Boulder needs to stand up to Suncor
Early this week, the Daily Camera posted an article reviewing the upcoming case between the City of Boulder, Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil. To be brief, the City of Boulder is suing these companies for de... |
| Jan 6, 2025 | Election | Jeffco Clerk Amanda Gonzalez kicks off 2026 campaign for Colorado secretary of state | “We know that we have another Trump presidency looming, and we also know the kind of damage that his politics can do,” Gonzalez said. “But I think what gives me hope is that we also know that Colorado has and can continue to lead the way fo... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | National Politics | The GOP stoked fears of noncitizens voting. Cases in Ohio show how rhetoric and reality diverge | The Associated Press attended in-person and virtual court hearings for three of the Ohio defendants over the past two weeks. Each of the cases involved people with long ties to their community who acted alone, often under a mistaken impress... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | The Gaetz Gambit: Loyalty, Retribution, and the Future of Justice | The political landscape is shifting like sand beneath our feet. With Donald Trump’s recent nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general, the stakes have never been higher. This move is a testament to Trump’s unwavering commitment to lo... |
| Nov 14, 2024 | National Politics | Gaetz pick shows value Trump places on loyalty — and retribution — as he returns to Washington | The rhetoric from Trump reflects an about-face in approach from President Joe Biden, who has repeatedly taken a hands-off approach from the Justice Department even while facing a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified... |
| Oct 18, 2024 | National Politics | In a close election, here are 3 legal disputes that could reach the Supreme Court | Here’s a look at some issues causing waves in key swing states that could end up at the Supreme Court if there is a razor thin margin separating Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump.Pennsylvania mail-ballot dates
In Pennsylvania, ballots ... |
| Oct 10, 2024 | National Politics | Election conspiracy theories fueled a push to hand-count votes, but doing so is risky and slow | Shasta County, a conservative rural county in northern California, last year abandoned plans to hand-count ballots after the plan was estimated to cost $1.6 million and require more than 1,200 additional employees.
Still, some jurisdictions... |
| Jul 7, 2024 | Politics | Colorado lobbyists were paid nearly $70 million in the last year. These 5 bills show their influence on policy. | “Special interests are able to exercise an undue amount of influence on the legislators and the path forward for bills because they’re able to be on the ground, be in our legislators’ ears, build those relationships,” said Aly Belknap, the ... |
| Apr 13, 2024 | Timeline: The probe into Trump's alleged hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels | Former President Trump's hush money trial stems from events purported to have taken place over nearly two decades, well before his entry into politics vaulted him to the presidency.
The big picture: The presumptive GOP presidential nominee ... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Timely response | The Supreme Court has done well to dismiss an application by State Bank of India (SBI), the state-owned bank that was responsible for issuing electoral bonds, for time till June 30 to provide details about bond purchases made between April ... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Kyrsten Sinema is still sitting on over $11 million in campaign cash — and she could easily use it to fuel her post-Senate life | Politics Kyrsten Sinema is still sitting on over $11 million in campaign cash — and she could easily use it to fuel her post-Senate life
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| Feb 16, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Karen Hobert Flynn: Supreme Court case could undermine Founders and the blueprint of democracy | By Karen Hobert Flynn
A crushing blow to our democracy could come this spring when the U.S. Supreme Court issues a decision in a major voting rights case, Moore v. Harper.
The case could grant state lawmakers unchecked power to undermine ou... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Another police shooting, another haunting video | Last Friday, the Memphis Police Department released its videos of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, prompting an outpouring of protest, grief and commemoration across the country, including in California where Nichols spent much of his lif... |
| Oct 2, 2022 | Editorials
Editorials | Editorial: Increasing turnout must be our priority, ‘yes’ on 2E | The difference in voter turnout between even- and odd-year elections is stark. County data shows that roughly 30,000 fewer eligible voters cast ballots in the city of Boulder in 2021 than in 2020. In a city of 108,000, that is a huge drop-o... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | Out of 18 pro-democracy bills in 2022, the US Senate filibuster torpedoed 17 of them: report | Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, points at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, on the steps of the US Capitol. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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| Jul 31, 2022 | Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win. | Conservatives' next big play is an unprecedented rewrite of the Constitution. iStock; Rebecca Zisser/Insider
The conservative movement isn't done reshaping the Constitution from the ground up. Conservatives are now pushing an unprecedented ... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $320,000 on Lobbying Every Day | A new study argues crappy U.S. broadband is an active policy choice—and a direct result of pathetically weak U.S. lobbying and corporate finance laws.
Over the last few years big internet service providers have killed net neutrality, elimin... |
| May 6, 2021 | DeSantis signs a sweeping GOP-backed election bill into law in Florida, tightening restrictions on mail voting and ballot drop boxes | Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Wilfredo Lee/The Associated Press
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Thursday signed a GOP-backed election and voting bill into law.
Senate Bill 90 tightens rules for voting by mail and restricts ballot drop boxes... |
| Apr 30, 2021 | How a 26-year-old Harvard graduate and nonprofit cofounder spends his day | Saad Amer. Courtesy of Saad Amer
Saad Amer, 26, is the cofounder of the nonprofit Plus1Vote.
The nonprofit seeks to help people vote in elections.
He is also a fellow at Yale and works with the United Nations.
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| Nov 11, 2020 | Democrats’ lacklustre performance in downballot races is a double-edged sword for election and voting rights reform | Chester County, Pa. election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots to scan for the 2020 general election in the United States at West Chester University, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in West Chester. AP Photo/Matt Slocum
As President-ele... |
| Nov 6, 2020 | A civil-rights organization and a watchdog group are demanding that Jack Dorsey suspend Trump's Twitter account over violations of its civic-integrity policy | Two national, nonpartisan organizations are calling for CEO Jack Dorsey to temporarily suspend President Donald Trump's Twitter account over multiple violations of the company's civic-integrity policy.
The president has made various tweets ... |
| Aug 26, 2020 | Social Media Can Apply COVID-19 Policies To Reduce the Spread of Election Disinformation | With less than eighty days until Election Day and a pandemic surging across the country, disinformation continues to spread across social media platforms, posing dangers to public health, voting rights, and our democracy. Time is short and ... |
| May 30, 2020 | The coronavirus crisis could push the U.S. to adopt online voting by 2024 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden recentl... |
| May 30, 2020 | The coronavirus crisis could push the U.S. to adopt online voting by 2024 | Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden recently suggested that, as the public health emergency deepens, all-mail ballots are “worth looking at, quickly.” Mail-in ballots could be helpful as a stopgap right now, but it’s a slow and ineffi... |
| Apr 16, 2015 | ALEC Threatens To Sue Critics That Point Out It Helps Keep Broadband Uncompetitive | As you might have read, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been losing some major clients lately, including Google, T-Mobile and Microsoft. Those companies have been quietly distancing themselves from ALEC, after critics h... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | Net Neutrality Wins: No Blocking, Throttling, or 'Fast Lanes' for the Internet | Federal regulators voted today to approve the most sweeping overhaul of US internet policy in two decades, in a landmark victory for net neutrality advocates and a bitter defeat for telecom industry giants and their allies in Congress.
In a... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | Ethics will be Nutter’s mayoral legacy. Will open data gains survive? | Michael Nutter’s 2007 mayoral campaign was successful in part because of his work in City Council on ethics reform and his strong rhetoric on transparency.
With a final year left on his two-term limit, the Nutter administration has been cal... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | AOL Drops ALEC, The State Lobbying Group ‘Lying’ About Climate Change | Sometimes, some days, I get to be proud of the company that pays my checks. Today is one of those days, as AOL joins the ranks of the sane and dropped its support for the American Legislative Exchange Council, an industry lobbying group tha... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Obama: Treat broadband—including mobile—as a utility | Government IT we can't believe in.
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| Sep 5, 2014 | Google silent on support for group opposing net neutrality and muni broadband | Network neutrality protest at Google headquarters.
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| May 22, 2014 | #IVoteNo: Advocates protest merger outside Comcast shareholders meeting | Inside the Kimmel Center Wednesday, a group of shareholders and investors discussed the financial ramifications of the proposed $45 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable. It would be another step in the startling ascension of... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Washington’s revolving door: Cellular lobby and FCC have traded leaders | The FCC's revolving door doesn't always lead to the same outcome.
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| Feb 13, 2014 | Comcast: No promise that prices “will go down or even increase less rapidly” | Comcast Executive VP David Cohen.
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| Mar 13, 2012 | Government needs to shine a brighter light on the public’s business | Sunshine please! We may take sunshine for granted here in Hawaii most of the time, but when the sun finally reemerges after weeks behind the clouds, one might pause, just for a moment, to appreciate just how wonderful it is and how lost we’... |
| May 14, 2011 | AT&T Works the Refs to Gin Up Support for Its T-Mobile Deal | You know that AT&T (T) really wants to buy T-Mobile. And senators pressed hard on AT&T during hearings to prove that the acquisition wouldn't hurt competition in the market and seemed skeptical. Although Congress doesn't have a dire... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | Common Cause PA honors Robert Cheetham, Azavea founder, software developer | You probably wouldn’t need to check IDs to confirm that most of those in attendance at Monday night’s Common Cause Pennsylvania 40th anniversary celebration were alive for the progressive citizen lobbying group’s debut in 1970.
The eighty, ... |
| Mar 8, 2000 | CDT: ICANN Should Cool Its Jets On Elections | The board of directors in charge of the organization that
runs the core functions of the Internet's address system needs to take
its time to handle its leadership elections process correctly, rather
than rushing to decide how it will be don... |
| Senate invites Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts to testify in wake of Clarence Thomas ethics scandal | The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee invited Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to testify before the panel about ethics reform of the court.
The invitation to Roberts by Sen. Dick Dubin, D-Ill., came in the wake of a series... |
| Column: Public election financing ‘makes all other reforms possible’ | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Brodie Lockard has been a board member of Common Cause Hawaii since 2014, and has worked on public financing for two decades.
After last year’s convictions of one-time S... |
| Trump escapes FEC punishment for Karen McDougal hush money, but National Enquirer publisher pays settlement | The Federal Election Commission will let former President Donald Trump avoid any punishment for directing hush money payments to his alleged ex-mistress Karen McDougal.
But the publisher of The National Enquirer agreed to pay more than $187... |
| Pelosi and Trump used a fraudulent trick to raise money — and a guy faces 20 years in prison partly for doing the same thing | Political campaigns associated with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former President Donald Trump have been frequent users of a fundraising gimmick suggesting donations will be matched. Shealah Craighead/The White House
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| GOP Gov. DeSantis signs Florida election law while shutting out all media but Fox News | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill, SB 90, in a closed-door event that blocked out all reporters and media coverage — except for Fox News.
The NAACP promptly filed a federal lawsuit alleging the law violates the U.S. Constitution, th... |
| How more than $422 million in taxpayer money got locked away in a forgotten government fund — and lawmakers won't spend it or return it | A pool of more than $422.6 million contributed by taxpayers is waiting for Congress to decide how best to use it. DigitalStorm via Getty Images
The money is supposed to publicly fund presidential campaigns. But it doesn't.
Republicans and D... |
| Legal problems galore await Trump now that he's lost reelection — and, soon, his presidential immunity | President Donald Trump. Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| DeSantis signs a sweeping GOP-backed election bill into law in Florida, tightening restrictions on mail voting and ballot drop boxes | Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Wilfredo Lee/The Associated Press
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Thursday signed a GOP-backed election and voting bill into law.
Senate Bill 90 tightens rules for voting by mail and restricts ballot drop boxes... |
