21st Century Democracy Agenda
12 national groups, including Issue One, have endorsed the 21st Century Democracy Agenda, a comprehensive policy platform to reduce the influence of money in politics and ensure that everyone has a...
View ArticleTim Roemer in Newsweek: “Are You Feeling the Pain?”
Tim Roemer, former Indiana congressman and ambassador to India, has a simple question: are you feeling the pain? Even if you think you aren’t, the situation on Capitol Hill ensures we’re all feeling...
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ReFormers Caucus Puts 2016 Candidates on Notice
This week, the ReFormers are issuing a challenge to the 2016 presidential candidates: Discuss specific solutions they would support to end the dominance of money in politics. In a letter to the...
View ArticleVictory in Connecticut – Proposed Cuts to Clean Elections Program Defeated
In a major reform victory, concerted pressure has led Democrats in the Connecticut legislature to eliminate a proposed suspension of the state’s landmark public financing system. The proposal, which...
View ArticleReFormers Caucus One Year Recap
In an exciting first year of work the ReFormers have helped move money in politics to the front of the political debate. One year ago former members of Congress on Issue One’s Advisory Board invited...
View ArticleFormer Democratic Chief Fundraiser: “Millennials, not Money!”
Issue One advisory board member Alan Solomont is out with an op-ed in Roll Call with a simple call to action: to get millennial participation in politics up, we’ve got to reduce the influence of money...
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Lights, Camera, Campaign Finance!: Issue One on C-SPAN
Meredith McGehee on C-SPAN Washington Journal Why is national security a money in politics issue? Did the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision really allow for more speech by more people in the...
View ArticleNation on the Take Now in Paperback!
When Nation on the Take was released last year, we couldn’t have imagined how much more salient its exposés of corruption and congressional inaction would become in 2017. Since the book was first...
View ArticleNineteen House lawmakers launch first-of-its-kind bipartisan congressional...
Today, 19 bipartisan lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives launched the Congressional Reformers Caucus, the first organization of its kind on Capitol Hill to focus exclusively on discussing...
View ArticleNew bipartisan poll confirms urgency to fix our democracy
Poll after poll confirms: Americans think our democracy is broken. And they are right. But this new, bipartisan poll, called the “Democracy Project Report,” should really turn heads because it shows...
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