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Election 2014

Not One, But Eight Reports Show Big Money Dominates Post-Citizens United Landscape

Report: How GOP Operatives Clandestinely Used Twitter to Bypass Election Laws

Jon Queally, staff writer

Practice exposed by CNN reveals quest by political operatives to exploit murky world of campaign finance laws in age of Citizens United

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Sanders Calls for Voting Holiday to 'Fix' Failed Democracy

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

With rampant voter suppression efforts and a slew of dark money spending to sway voters, Sanders argues that now, more than ever, is when people need to demand their right to vote. (Photo: Denise Cross Photography/cc/flickr)

Independent senator introducing legislation to create 'Democracy Day' to...

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'We Will Only Get Louder': Communities Vote to Boot Big Money from Politics

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

Huge margins back up claim that 'nearly all Americans share the sentiment that...

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California Voters Pass 'Historic' Mass Incarceration Reform

Minimum Wage Measures Pass Overwhelmingly, Even in Red States

Voters Reject Oil Titan Chevron, Elect Progressive Bloc in Richmond, California

Hawaiians Win Community GMO Victory Over Monsanto

Trend Towards Ending Marijuana Prohibition Continues as Legalization Wins Big

Republicans Take Control: Senate Takeover, House Gains, Governor Surge

Communities Stand Up for Democracy, Health of Their Communities in Local Fights

Election Night 2014: Democracy Now!

Election Day Loser: the 'American Voters'

'Supermajority'? GOP Poised to Gain Major Ground in State Legislatures

The Big Winner in 2014 Elections: Corporate Television

Election Day Alert: When Democracy Broken, Progress Impossible

Newswire

Drug Policy Alliance

Tuesday: Alaska Marijuana Legalization Law Takes Effect

US PIRG

Study Shows Big Donors Dominated Competitive 2014 Congressional Races

Public Campaign

Small Donor Solutions for Big Money: The 2014 Elections and Beyond

Common Cause

Studies Show Big Donors Dominated Competitive 2014 Congressional Races

Brennan Center for Justice

New Report: Outside Spending, Dark Money from Wealthy Few Booming Post-'Citizens United'...

Public Citizen

Public Citizen Report: 45 Percent of Super PACs Backed a Single Candidate in 2014 Elections

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Views

Jim Newell

Hillary Is Already Triangulating Against Liberals

Dave Johnson

Holiday Bright Spots For Progressives

Michael T. Klare

A New Congress, Fossil-Fueled Republicanism, and Planetary Disaster

Sam Pizzigati

Some 'Old' News for a Newly Elected Congress

Marge Baker

Taking Stock of the Money Midterms

Jim Hightower

How Shy People Stole Our Elections

Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman

How the GOP Bought, Rigged, Stole and Lynched the 2014 Election

Sam Pizzigati

The Peasants Still Have Their Pitchforks

Alan Minsky

This Democratic Party Is Going Nowhere. Can Progressives Take it Over and Change the World?

Paul Pillar

Will Obama’s Foreign Policy Finally Emerge?

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