Reform the system to improve the system
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Hi Friend,

 

In a recent poll, 62% of Americans said the two parties have done such a bad
job of representing the American people that a third party was needed.
Americans don’t feel like their representatives are representing them. 

 

That’s a massive failure of our institutions. 

 

Luckily, reform offers a solution. 

 

Here are three things to think about this week:

Why America doesn’t have the third party it wants.
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If 62% of Americans want a third party, then why don’t we have one? More
importantly, what does it say about us that 62% of Americans want another
option in the first place? As our very ownNick Troiano writes for The Hill
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, “In any other industry,if half of customers disliked the only two major
brands and nearly two thirds of customers desired an alternative, there would
be a new product on the shelf, yesterday.”

 

Yet that’s not the case for politics, where the two-parties have trapped the
American people into a duopoly where only they can win. The incentives of our
political system have warped, rewarding the parties at the expense of the
voters. But reforms like ranked choice voting and nonpartisan primaries can
change that, opening up elections to more voters and ensuring that candidates
have secured a majority of support in order to win. 


Nick also stopped by Morning Joe
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Celebrating some unsung heroes.
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Our history books teach us a lot about historic civil rights leaders like
Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, and Rosa Parks. They’re deservingly
celebrated, remembered, and honored for their leadership. But the Civil Rights
Movement was a national effort made up of thousands of individuals who each
brought their own experience and contribution to the fight for equality. 

 

In honor of Black History Month, we want to celebrate the unsung heroes of the
Civil Rights Movement
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Incredible leaders like Jane Bolin — a trailblazing judge who worked to
desegregate the probation system in New York — or Dorothy Height — an advocate
for Black women and key organizer of the March on Washington — are often left
out of our textbooks.Yet their contributions laid the groundwork for equal
rights, and their legacies should be remembered to us today. 


Check it out
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me know who else you think should be on our list.



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Bipartisanship is brewing.
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Big news yesterday out of Madison: a bipartisan group of lawmakers have
introduced a bill that would establish Final-Five Voting in Wisconsin. Similar
to Final-Four, which passed in Alaska by ballot measure in November, the
proposed system would create a single nonpartisan primary open to all
Wisconsinites. The top five finishers would advance to the general election,
where voters would use ranked choice voting to determine who wins. 

 

This is a big deal. Alaska’s top-four system is already shaking up the
incentive structure for Alaska's elected officials
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, rewarding them for serving in the public interest, rather than partisan
interest. For Wisconsinites, it could mean a break in the partisan head-butting
that has long dominated the state’s politics. 


And the bill has big supporters, too. Representative Mike Gallagher (WI-8, R)
is behind it. From theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
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: “Final-Five Voting realigns electoral incentives in a way that creates
greater accountability to voters, and rewards finding common ground,” he said
in a statement. “At a time of intense partisanship, we’re in dire need of
solutions.”’



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Brett
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Brett Maney
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Unite America
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