Working Democracy

"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it." Alexander Woollcott

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Project Vote Smart provides free, unbiased, in-depth information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988.

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Find your representatives and senators with just a zip code. Call your elected officials in Congress or check their voting records . Make your voice heard.

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Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda (web version)

Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen. Read the guide online.

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10 Actions / 100 Days

Thank you to the millions of people around the world who, on January 21, came together by the millions to raise our voices. But our march forward does not end here. Now is the time to get our friends, family and community together and MAKE HISTORY. Join us in launching a new campaign: 10 Actions for the first 100 Days.

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By Mark Landler and Maggie Habberman "But none of these choices suggest a president-elect who is reaching beyond reliably conservative precincts to fill his administration."

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By Timothy Snyder. Lessons so that we do not repeat history's largest mistakes.

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Suzan DelBene. "DelBene’s bill would prohibit the Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security and any United States government official from establishing or utilizing a registry for the purposes of classifying individuals on the basis of religious affiliation."

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By Dan Merica. "The group informed John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman, and Marc Elias, the campaign's general counsel, that Clinton received 7% fewer votes in counties that relied on electronic voting machines, which the group said could have been hacked."

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By Alicia Freese. "When Vermont does something good ... it spreads that idea in five seconds across the country," Sanders responded. "So I think at the end of the day maybe our greatest responsibility  is to try to create a state which in every way people from 49 other states are looking at Vermont and saying, 'you know what, we want to be like Vermont."

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By Steve Benen. "Trump may not have to worry about the conflict-of-interest laws his subordinates have to honor, but his business entanglements “could potentially violate the Constitution’s little-known Emoluments Clause."

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By Dan Rather. “I believe there is a vast majority who wants to see this nation continue in tolerance and freedom. But it will require speaking. Engage in your civic government. Flood newsrooms or TV networks with your calls if you feel they are slipping into the normalization of extremism. Donate your time and money to causes that will fight to protect our liberties.”

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By James Hohmann. “The messages can’t be about ‘job retraining.’ These folks have heard it a million times and, frankly, they think it’s complete and total bulls**t,” he continued. “Talk about policies that will incentivize companies to repatriate manufacturing jobs. Talk about infrastructure … The workers we’re talking about don’t want to run computers; they want to run back hoes, dig ditches (and) sling concrete block. … Somewhere along the line we forgot that not everyone wants to be white collar.””

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By Mike Pearl. "Robert Bonnie, undersecretary for natural resources and environment at the Department of Agriculture, told the crowd that progress in regulating the agriculture sector had been effective enough to ensure that sustainability will be on the agenda, even in Trump’s America."

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By Brittany De Lea. “While Trump may hope to provide a voice to this disenchanted population, the delicate Republican majorities, which are likely to stand at 52 seats in the Senate and 241 seats in the House, may not hold together should President-elect Trump stray from the agenda sought-after by his party’s leaders.”

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Donald Trump's Administration Is a Basket of Deplorables

'None of this is normal'

By Darlena Cunha. “No President should surround himself with sycophants. In a normal transition period, this would be the focus. Instead, we must focus on the far more pressing problem: actionable racism in the cabinet. This is not normal.”