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Non-profit launched by @robrichie.bsky.social and Eveline Dowling that measures success by catalyzing conversations and actions that advance pro-democracy ideas and strategies.
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🔔 New newsletter alert!

How do we eliminate biased election governance? And what can the NFL teach us about enhancing public trust? 🏈 Read the latest issue of the Expand Democracy 3 now!

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The Expand Democracy 3: Strengthening impartial election governance, civic action in the NFL, and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 3, written this week by Eveline and Nivea.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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🎉We're excited to officially launch our podcast, The Democracy Lab!🎉

Every two weeks, our team will explore the ideas and reforms that can reinvigorate democracy, alongside experts in the field.

Check out our first ep⬇️
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Building a Better Democracy Across Generations
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November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Democracy is not self-executing.

If you can vote today, please do.
If your state votes another day, help someone else.
Participation is power, and sustaining it takes us all.

Democracy grows when everyone gets a say 🗳️
#ElectionDay #Civicparticipation
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🗳️ New this week from the Expand Democracy 3:

• How fusion voting + RCV can strengthen multiparty democracy
• Why states across the spectrum still use RCV for military & overseas voters

Next week: 🎙️ launching our podcast The Democracy Lab!

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Fusion voting, RCV for overseas/military voters, and timely links: The Expand Democracy 3
Happy Halloween - and happy Election Day on November 4th for many Americans.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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🚨The Expand Democracy 3 Newsletter is out! 🚨

This week's issue covers:
📱 The prospect of mobile voting,
🗳️ Arizona's creative election fellows program, and
⏰ Timely links!

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Mobile voting as the new frontier, AZ election administration fellows, and timely links
The Expand Democracy 3
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October 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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🚨 The Expand Democracy 3 Newsletter is out! 🚨

This week's issue covers:
📚 The role of liberal arts education in a democracy
💸 Seattle's successful democracy vouchers program
⏰ Timely links!

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Critical thinking and civic education, Seattle’s democracy voucher program, and this week’s timely links
The Expand Democracy Three
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October 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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🚨Expand Democracy 3 Newsletter is out! 🚨

Check out our:

🏛️ Take on the U.S. government shutdown

📰 Analysis of a Pew Research Center study on the prospect of political change

⏰Timely reads on election reform and executive power

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Government shutdowns reveal gaps in US democracy, international desire for political change, and this week’s timely links
The Expand Democracy 3 Weekly Newsletter
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October 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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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

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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
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🚨 Expand Democracy 3 Alert: Newsletter is out! 🚨

Check out our:
📜 Deep dive on a 2037 Constitutional Convention
🏆 Endorsement of comebacks over sore losers
⏰ Timely links on all things democracy reform!

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Imagining a 2037 constitutional convention, opening ballots to primary losers, and this week's timely links
The Expand Democracy 3 Weekly Newsletter
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September 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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🚨 Now presenting… the Expand Democracy 3! 3️⃣

Our weekly newsletter is sharper + more focused:
📰 Pro-democracy toplines
🔎 Deep dives on urgent issues
💡 Democracy empowering innovations

This week: confronting political violence + democracy-affirming tech

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Introducing the Expand Democracy 3: The urgency of confronting political violence and spotlighting the value of democracy-affirming technologies
September 11, 2025
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September 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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✨Best of the Expand Democracy 5: Deep Dives✨

Our top essays from the past year:
🗽 RCV & its critics in NYC
🚀 Musk’s “America Party”
🏛️ Restoring balance to SCOTUS
🗳️ The “Primary Problem”
🌍 Balancing global governance

New content starts next week!
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Best of the Expand Democracy 5: Our Favorite Deep Dives – Week 5
September 4th, 2025
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September 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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📚✏️ Back-to-school, back to democracy! This week’s Expand Democracy 5 is all about young people reshaping politics:

🗳️ 17-year-olds voting
🎓 Campus reforms & RCV
🔢 RCV on college campuses
🌍 Gen Z’s gender divide
🇯🇵 Youth & Japan’s right

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Best of the Expand Democracy 5: Young People – Week 3
August 21st, 2025
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August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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‼️Just in! Best of the Expand Democracy 5 – Week 2: Electoral Reform

How can changing election rules make democracy fair & inclusive?

🗳️ Open Primaries
📣 Freedom to Associate
🏛️ Rethinking House Size
🔓 Restoring Voting Rights
💰 Money in NYC’s Mayoral Race

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Best of the Expand Democracy 5: Electoral Reform – Week 2
August 14th, 2025
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August 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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In August, we’re revisiting some favorite #ExpandDemocracy5 stories.

This week’s theme: Innovations in State Legislatures
🖥️ CA's Digital Democracy
💸 NYC's Public Financing
🔄 Voting reform in AK & OR
🗳️ Ballot access in WY
📉 VA cuts voter data costs

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Best of the Expand Democracy 5: Innovations in State Legislatures – Week 1
August 7th, 2025
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August 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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This week’s Expand Democracy 5 is live!
🗳️ RCV and its critics
💰 Re-gerrymandering explained
💪 Expanding citizen initiatives @newamerica.org
🎬 Deliberative democracy in action
🕙 Timely links
We’re taking a break in August—so don’t miss this one!
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The Expand Democracy 5: RCV and its critics, the root of the “re-gerrymander”, expanding citizen initiatives, deliberative democracy, and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. In August, we’ll be taking a break from new content, but we look forward to sharing grouped posts from this year’s editions that we believe are...
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July 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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🚨 New Expand Democracy 5 is live! 🚨

🕳️ Why conspiracy theories thrive in a two-party system
🌊 The rise of Japan’s “Japanese First” party
⚡ Michigan’s new push for RCV @rankmivote.bsky.social
🎓 College reform stacking
🕙 Timely links

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July 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🗳️ New from the Expand Democracy 5:

🚀 Rebalancing global, national & local governance
🏳️ How to lose without breaking democracy
💡 Ways to protect candidates from violence
⚡ Independents take on PA’s closed primaries
🔗 Timely links

Read it here 👉 expanddem.substack.com/p/the-expand...
The Expand Democracy Five - Rebalancing governance, "sore losers", political violence, closed primaries, and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With the assistance of Juniper Shelley and Eveline Dowling, we highlight timely links and stories about democracy at the local, national, and g...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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📬 The Expand Democracy 5 is out! 📬

🚀 Elon’s third party reflects issues in the two-party system
🏆 RCV and voter turnout in NYC
⚡ Preserving rights for incarcerated citizens
❌ Cancelled Miami election sparks outrage
🕓 Timely links

🔗 Read and subscribe here: expanddem.substack.com/p/the-expand...
The Expand Democracy 5: Elon’s push for a third party, turnout and RCV in NYC, preserving voting rights for the incarcerated, cancelled Miami elections, and timely links
July 10th, 2025
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July 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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🚨 The latest Expand Democracy 5 is here! 🚨

This week:

🔁 Restoring balance to the Supreme Court
💡 Better legislative rules
🔓 A “Public Primary” for independents
🧭 A faster way to tally ranked choice voting elections
🕓 Timely links

Subscribe and read here!

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The Expand Democracy 5: A Supreme Court out of balance, collaborative legislative rules, a public primary, faster way to tally ranked choice voting elections, and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With the assistance of Eveline Dowling and Juniper Shelley, we highlight timely links and stories about democracy at the local, national, and g...
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July 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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📬 The Expand Democracy 5 is out now!

🏆 How RCV reshaped Zohran Mamdani’s NYC primary win
⚡ Defense of citizen-initiated ballot measures
💸 Virginia slashes voter data costs
🚧 Persistent barriers to voting in Native American communities
🕓 Timely links

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The Expand Democracy 5: Mamdani’s win under RCV, bipartisan union for citizen-initiated ballot measures, VA cuts voter data costs, voting barriers in Native American communities, and timely links
June 26th, 2025
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June 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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🚨 Expand Democracy 5 is out! 🚨

🔁 Lack of competition in general elections
💡 A constitutional right to vote
🔓 Voting rights for those with past felony convictions
🧭 @ballotpedia.org's role as a national voter guide
🕓 Links on reform, advocacy, and civic action

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The Expand Democracy 5: Competitive elections, constitutional right to vote, voting rights restoration, Ballotpedia as a national voter guide, timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling and Juniper Shelley’s assistance, we highlight timely links and stories about democracy at the local, national, and global...
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June 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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🚨 New Expand Democracy 5 just dropped! 🚨

🧨 The psychology of political violence in America
💡 Reimagining the voter guide
📖 Creating citizens’ initiative assemblies
⚡ Allowing 17-year-olds to vote
🕓 This week’s timely links

Read more and subscribe here: 👉

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The Expand Democracy 5: Psychological roots of political violence, reimagining the voter guide, Citizens’ Initiative Assemblies, allowing 17-year-olds to vote, and timely links
June 12th, 2025
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June 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Better late than never! 🚨 @robrichie.bsky.social covers in the new Expand Democracy 5:

🗳️ Fixing prez primaries
💰 Independent $ in NYC’s mayoral race
🌍 Global election norms
➗ Gen Z’s gender divide
+ more!

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The Expand Democracy 5: Improving presidential primaries, independent expenditures in NYC, global presidential elections, the political gender divide, and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s assistance, we lift up timely links and stories about democracy locally, nationally, and on a global scale. Today's stor...
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June 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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🚨 New Expand Democracy 5 is out!
This week we explore:

🌟 RCV momentum
🧒 Youth civic engagement @icivics.bsky.social @citizenuniversity.bsky.social
💡 Smarter leadership selection
⚡ Faster runoff elections
🕓 Timely links on media & judicial races
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The Expand Democracy 5: The future of RCV, engaging young people, internal election rules, faster runoff elections, and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s help, we explore five ways democracy is evolving—locally, nationally, and globally. Today's stories include:
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May 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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🚨 This week's Expand Democracy 5 is out! We explore:

🌍 UK & Australia elections
🗳️ Open primaries via @openprimaries.bsky.social
🌱 Bipartisan climate views (@moreincommonus.bsky.social)
🎖️ Voting access for military families

Read more and subscribe here: expanddem.substack.com/p/the-expand...
May 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM