What Is Gerrymandering?
The practice of drawing electoral district boundaries to give one party an unfair advantage in elections. Politicians pick their voters instead of voters picking their representatives, producing lopsided results that don't reflect how people actually voted.
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Voting Rights
Democracy only works when every citizen can participate. Gerrymandering, voter ID laws, and polling place closures are making it harder — deliberately.
Campaign Finance
Just 1.05% of Americans provided 78% of 2024 campaign contributions. Economic elites have substantial policy influence; average citizens have near-zero. Money out. People in.
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Ranked-Choice Voting
An electoral system where voters rank candidates by preference instead of choosing just one. If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their voters' second choices are redistributed — repeating until someone wins a true majority.
Dark Money
Political spending by nonprofit organizations that are not required to disclose their donors. Dark money groups — organized as 501(c)(4) 'social welfare' organizations — can spend unlimited amounts on elections while keeping their funders completely anonymous from the public.