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If you do not act against ALEC by showing your local representative that this kind of behavior will lose your vote, then you, and you alone, are responsible for everything

New disclosure ruling means nonprofit groups like the Chamber of Commerce, Crossroads GPS and Priorities USA that want to run political ads right before an election will have to disclose their donors.

Unlike the 1770s, we didn’t need to burn a ship to get people excited about this resolution. Rather, it just took actual citizens to speak up and attempt to throw off the yoke of this corrupting influence.

No longer would wealthy special interests be able to take advantage of the system by using shadowy front groups to evade Connecticut law and hijack our democratic system.

Oil shale development brings opportunity for major financial gains, but also public health concerns, a combination that is not always good for government transparency. We sent open records requests to several county officials, including Garfield County, Colorado, after we heard about a secret meeting out in Utah where they may have been making policy away [...]