Democracy
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Multiple indicators show a decline in the health of America’s democracy in 2025
By Jonathan Schulman and Richard Wike from the Pew Research Center The health of America’s democracy declined in 2025, according to new evaluations from organizations that have long tracked how well democracies around the world are working. All three evaluations show a weakening of American democracy over the past decade, including notable declines in 2025.…
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Check your voter registration status today!!
Pima County Voters Photo Credit: Jonny Silvercloud You can sign in to your Voter Dashboard to find your personalized election information! From your voter registration status to your ballot status, everything you need to be Registered & Ready can be found here. The dashboard is new – please contact our office if you have trouble…
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Thousands of Arizona voters received letters asking if they’d moved. Here’s why.
Some of the letters, which are linked to a new state law, went to voters who hadn’t moved because of flaws in state officials’ address comparison process. By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy and Sasha Hupka/Votebeat September 3, 2026 3:30 pm Kimberly Dorris wasn’t expecting to see a letter from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in her mailbox on Monday. Dorris,…
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The 3.5% rule: Understanding what makes protest powerful
Professor Erica Chenoweth studies what makes nonviolent mass movements succeed. By Nora Delaney Fall 2025 MOVEMENTS MATTER. In 1980, ship workers in the Polish city of Gdańsk went on strike, demonstrating for independent unions, better conditions, and political reforms. Poland, which had been under Soviet influence since World War II, was facing an economic crisis…
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Breaking: DOJ, Once Again Seeking to Leapfrog Over 1st Circuit, Asks Supreme Court Again to Let USPs Implement Its Mail Ballot Restrictions
By Rick Hasen in the Election Law Blog Sept 6, 2026 This stay application should finally tee this issue up for the Court.I have explained why the government easily should lose. Let’s see if they do lose. Update: Justice Jackson has asked for a reply in the new application to be filed by 4 pm September 9. EARLIER UPDATE: DOJ has…
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Your mail-in ballot is in Jeopardy!
New system for screening mail-in ballots risks denying entire batches, says whistleblower US senator says that project, a key part of Trump’s voting restrictions, is ‘perilously rushed and potentially unlawful’ [From The Gaurdian, Sept 2, 2026] A new system to screen millions of mail-in ballots for this November’s US midterm elections was thrown together so…
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Act Free to Be Free: A State and Local Pro-Democracy Framework
A Civil Society Framework for Election Defense in 2026
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What we are doing locally
We did it! On May Day, people in 5,000 places across the U.S.A. shut down business as usual, costing Trump and his billionaire backers over $2,000,000 in lost income. We shut down every school in North Carolina, the NY Stock Exchange and the San Francisco airport. We were everywhere. That is what it takes to…
