Activists in Portland, Maine are pushing for public financing for local elections in their city. Representatives from the Fair Elections Portland campaign have begun the process to get an initiative…
In the race for Denver clerk and recorder, all three candidates in the running say that, if elected, their top priorities include implementing the public financing system Denver voters approved…
On her podcast “Sunday Civics,” Brooklyn NAACP President L. Joy Williams speaks with Lawrence Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice about the role of money in politics. The two…
New York took a step toward comprehensive campaign finance reform in this year’s budget by establishing a binding commission to design a small donor public financing system for state elections. …
Following the April 2 election in Wisconsin, the Capital Times editorial board urges the state’s elected officials to consider passing public financing to resolve the state’s big donor problem. The…
After months of campaigning for small donor public financing, legislators made a step toward enacting the reform in the budget approved on April 1, 2019. The budget included legislation establishing…