Busting Big Politics
@bustingbigpolitics.bsky.social
Advocate of electoral reform to create a more robust political system. Blogs at https://bustingbigpolitics.com/
"The state's approach to elections is a major factor in nurturing its tradition of bipartisan governance... In 2020, Alaska voters implemented a top-four, open-primary system, complemented by ranked-choice voting in general elections"
#rcv #rankedvoting
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#rcv #rankedvoting
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For a Model of Bipartisan Governance, Look to Alaska
Its electoral system, bolstered by strong economic and social institutions, enables lawmakers to vote their consciences in bipartisan coalitions.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"The state's approach to elections is a major factor in nurturing its tradition of bipartisan governance... In 2020, Alaska voters implemented a top-four, open-primary system, complemented by ranked-choice voting in general elections"
#rcv #rankedvoting
www.governing.com/politics/for...
#rcv #rankedvoting
www.governing.com/politics/for...
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A new bill in Congress brings #RankedChoiceVoting to all primary & general elections for the U.S. House & Senate. – giving voters more choice & more voice.
Ask Congress to support the #RankedChoiceVoting Act at the link below, & read on to learn more. #RCVAct 🧵
Ask Congress to support the #RankedChoiceVoting Act at the link below, & read on to learn more. #RCVAct 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A new bill in Congress brings #RankedChoiceVoting to all primary & general elections for the U.S. House & Senate. – giving voters more choice & more voice.
Ask Congress to support the #RankedChoiceVoting Act at the link below, & read on to learn more. #RCVAct 🧵
Ask Congress to support the #RankedChoiceVoting Act at the link below, & read on to learn more. #RCVAct 🧵
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The two-choice system isn't serving people, & Iowans know it. We deserve a new path forward where politicians have to solve problems to get reelected, not create them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn59...
We Can Win Iowa with Brian Tyler Cohen | Rob Sand for Iowa
Rob recently sat down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about his approach to winning in Iowa, how President Trump's tariff war has affected Iowa farmers, and why Rob doesn't believe either party should…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The two-choice system isn't serving people, & Iowans know it. We deserve a new path forward where politicians have to solve problems to get reelected, not create them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn59...
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🗞️ A lively forum explored the revival of “fusion voting” — a system where a candidate can be nominated by more than one party. Currently, United Wisconsin argues that Wisconsin’s ban on this system violates the association rights of voters and candidates. www.wisbar.org/NewsPublicat...
Fusion Voting: A Possible Future from the Past
A day-long University of Wisconsin-Madison forum drew scholars and political practitioners to evaluate the resuscitation of fusion voting – sought in lawsuits in Wisconsin and other states – to…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🗞️ A lively forum explored the revival of “fusion voting” — a system where a candidate can be nominated by more than one party. Currently, United Wisconsin argues that Wisconsin’s ban on this system violates the association rights of voters and candidates. www.wisbar.org/NewsPublicat...
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After 10 years of 1 party control, it's time for a new leader who's focused on lowering costs, growing our economy, and helping Iowans live better, healthier lives.
December 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
After 10 years of 1 party control, it's time for a new leader who's focused on lowering costs, growing our economy, and helping Iowans live better, healthier lives.
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"The best way to end gerrymandering—and the extremism and polarization that runs hand in hand—would be for the nation to adopt a more proportional House of Representatives." - @davedaley.bsky.social
Important read -> newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Important read -> newrepublic.com/article/2028...
MAGA’s State-by-State Plot to Butcher Democracy
Political insiders, GOP legislators and governors, the president, even the Supreme Court—they’re all in on the flagrantly unconstitutional conspiracy to destroy democracy by the way they draw lines on...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"The best way to end gerrymandering—and the extremism and polarization that runs hand in hand—would be for the nation to adopt a more proportional House of Representatives." - @davedaley.bsky.social
Important read -> newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Important read -> newrepublic.com/article/2028...
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“If you're confused about how one political party could endorse candidates from two other parties in a nonpartisan local election, then you’ve not heard much of the new Forward Party.”
That’s us. Check this out: jeoshea.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
That’s us. Check this out: jeoshea.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
The Quiet Rise of the Forward Party
If you're confused about how one political party could endorse candidates from two other parties in a nonpartisan local election, then you’ve not heard much of the new Forward Party.
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November 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“If you're confused about how one political party could endorse candidates from two other parties in a nonpartisan local election, then you’ve not heard much of the new Forward Party.”
That’s us. Check this out: jeoshea.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
That’s us. Check this out: jeoshea.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
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Episode 4 of This Old Democracy: Host Micah Sifry talks with Bill Kristol about the rise of authoritarianism, the dangers of polarization, and how civic engagement and reforms like fusion voting can help renew American democracy.
🎧 Listen: centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
🎧 Listen: centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Episode 4 of This Old Democracy: Host Micah Sifry talks with Bill Kristol about the rise of authoritarianism, the dangers of polarization, and how civic engagement and reforms like fusion voting can help renew American democracy.
🎧 Listen: centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
🎧 Listen: centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
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Majorities of Americans want more political parties -- and less executive power!
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November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Majorities of Americans want more political parties -- and less executive power!
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Episode 2 of This Old Democracy: @msifry.bsky.social talks with political scientist @leedrutman.bsky.social of @newamerica.org about breaking the two-party doom loop and why the U.S. needs a multi-party democracy. @politicalreform.newamerica.org
🎧 Listen: centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
🎧 Listen: centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Episode 2 of This Old Democracy: @msifry.bsky.social talks with political scientist @leedrutman.bsky.social of @newamerica.org about breaking the two-party doom loop and why the U.S. needs a multi-party democracy. @politicalreform.newamerica.org
🎧 Listen: centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
🎧 Listen: centerforballotfreedom.org/this-old-dem...
Exactly!
Plenty of politicians want you to think the government shutdown is entirely the fault of the other party.
I think it’s the fault of a system that gives too much of an incentive to fight each other rather than to serve all of us.
I think it’s the fault of a system that gives too much of an incentive to fight each other rather than to serve all of us.
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Exactly!
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Big win last night in Greenbelt! Thank you @rcvmd.org for all of your hard work!
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Big win last night in Greenbelt! Thank you @rcvmd.org for all of your hard work!
Independents for America (hosted by Mike Cantwell) has an excellent interview out with Farmville, VA Mayor Brian Vincent. "Decency, fortitude, and community." We need more elected leaders like him at all levels.
www.independentsforamerica.com/p/15-brian-v...
www.independentsforamerica.com/p/15-brian-v...
15. Brian Vincent
Mayor, Farmville, Virginia
www.independentsforamerica.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Independents for America (hosted by Mike Cantwell) has an excellent interview out with Farmville, VA Mayor Brian Vincent. "Decency, fortitude, and community." We need more elected leaders like him at all levels.
www.independentsforamerica.com/p/15-brian-v...
www.independentsforamerica.com/p/15-brian-v...
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This is the sound of candidates losing the struggle against the crushing weight of partisan gravity.
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is the sound of candidates losing the struggle against the crushing weight of partisan gravity.
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else.
This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
October 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"But unfortunately right-left paradigm is the only way our narcissistic media ecosystems sees anything anymore. That's the system they built."
Such an insightful perspective from Jon Stewart. Jon, come check out the election reform movement that is breaking that polarized, broken system!
Such an insightful perspective from Jon Stewart. Jon, come check out the election reform movement that is breaking that polarized, broken system!
Jon Stewart on the media's inability to analyze shootings beyond a simplistic left-right political paradigm
October 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
"But unfortunately right-left paradigm is the only way our narcissistic media ecosystems sees anything anymore. That's the system they built."
Such an insightful perspective from Jon Stewart. Jon, come check out the election reform movement that is breaking that polarized, broken system!
Such an insightful perspective from Jon Stewart. Jon, come check out the election reform movement that is breaking that polarized, broken system!
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Ranked Choice Voting 101 at Detroit Public Library this Wednesday
#RankMIVote #RCV #RankedChoiceVoting #FairElections #GrassrootsPower #Michigan #VoteYourHopesNotYourFears #Democracy
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#RankMIVote #RCV #RankedChoiceVoting #FairElections #GrassrootsPower #Michigan #VoteYourHopesNotYourFears #Democracy
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September 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Ranked Choice Voting 101 at Detroit Public Library this Wednesday
#RankMIVote #RCV #RankedChoiceVoting #FairElections #GrassrootsPower #Michigan #VoteYourHopesNotYourFears #Democracy
detroitgreens.org?p=761
#RankMIVote #RCV #RankedChoiceVoting #FairElections #GrassrootsPower #Michigan #VoteYourHopesNotYourFears #Democracy
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Hear Liz White from @upvoteva.bsky.social give an overview of #RankedChoiceVoting. What it is, how it works, and what it can do to make our elections better!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW6v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW6v...
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September 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Hear Liz White from @upvoteva.bsky.social give an overview of #RankedChoiceVoting. What it is, how it works, and what it can do to make our elections better!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW6v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW6v...
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🚨 Expand Democracy 3 Weekly Newsletter is Out! 🚨
Check out our:
🔍 Deep dive on ranked choice voting
💡 Think piece on the impact of AI on democracy
⏰ Timely links on all things democracy reform
Read here 👉 expanddem.substack.com/p/the-feasib...
Check out our:
🔍 Deep dive on ranked choice voting
💡 Think piece on the impact of AI on democracy
⏰ Timely links on all things democracy reform
Read here 👉 expanddem.substack.com/p/the-feasib...
The Feasibility of Ranked Choice, AI’s Implications for Democracy, and this week’s timely links
The Expand Democracy 3 Weekly Newsletter
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September 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🚨 Expand Democracy 3 Weekly Newsletter is Out! 🚨
Check out our:
🔍 Deep dive on ranked choice voting
💡 Think piece on the impact of AI on democracy
⏰ Timely links on all things democracy reform
Read here 👉 expanddem.substack.com/p/the-feasib...
Check out our:
🔍 Deep dive on ranked choice voting
💡 Think piece on the impact of AI on democracy
⏰ Timely links on all things democracy reform
Read here 👉 expanddem.substack.com/p/the-feasib...
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Mitigating backlash to election reform #rcv #rankedchoicevoting #electionreform bustingbigpolitics.com/mitigating-b...
Mitigating backlash to election reform – Busting Big Politics
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September 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Mitigating backlash to election reform #rcv #rankedchoicevoting #electionreform bustingbigpolitics.com/mitigating-b...
Mitigating backlash to election reform #rcv #rankedchoicevoting #electionreform bustingbigpolitics.com/mitigating-b...
Mitigating backlash to election reform – Busting Big Politics
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September 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Mitigating backlash to election reform #rcv #rankedchoicevoting #electionreform bustingbigpolitics.com/mitigating-b...
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Michigan House Republicans want to ban Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).
While 5 localities already approve the use of RCV in their local elections.
Shouldn’t we honor the decision of voters and local governments who’ve adopted ordinances to run their elections?
#rankedchoicevoting #elections #voting
While 5 localities already approve the use of RCV in their local elections.
Shouldn’t we honor the decision of voters and local governments who’ve adopted ordinances to run their elections?
#rankedchoicevoting #elections #voting
August 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Michigan House Republicans want to ban Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).
While 5 localities already approve the use of RCV in their local elections.
Shouldn’t we honor the decision of voters and local governments who’ve adopted ordinances to run their elections?
#rankedchoicevoting #elections #voting
While 5 localities already approve the use of RCV in their local elections.
Shouldn’t we honor the decision of voters and local governments who’ve adopted ordinances to run their elections?
#rankedchoicevoting #elections #voting
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Did you know the electoral system discouraged people from running?
Did you know we are working to fix that?
#RCV #RankedChoiceVoting
Did you know we are working to fix that?
#RCV #RankedChoiceVoting
August 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Did you know the electoral system discouraged people from running?
Did you know we are working to fix that?
#RCV #RankedChoiceVoting
Did you know we are working to fix that?
#RCV #RankedChoiceVoting
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August 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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