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While a growing and disturbing number of governors and state legislators seem bent on making it more difficult for Americans living in the U.S. to vote, a study released today praises most states for lowering barriers to voting by troops and other citizens who will be outside the country on Election Day. Two years after [...]

Great chart by CNN shows spending in all primary and caucus states during this campaign.

Here’s our point: corporations shouldn’t be playing in politics, but if they are then their investors deserve the right to approve how their money is spent on campaigns and elections.

“I predict to you there will be a major scandal associated with the Supreme Court decision on Citizens United. There is too much money washing around.”

On Tuesday, January 24, US House Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) told a panel of federal judges in the ongoing (seemingly never-ending) Texas redistricting case, that, well, the Texas Maps stunk. Actually, those are my words. She was even more eloquent and precise. She said the maps were an “outrage” and gave some strong reasons why. [...]