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Democratism is shifting focus to stop the authoritarian takeover and restore constitutional government. You can make it happen.

Recent polling has found that American faith in democracy is worryingly low. Reforming our voting systems will help all people feel like their vote matters.

An anti-drag law in Tennessee was upheld, sending a signal to similar cases nationwide. A judge appointed by a president who lost the popular vote wrote the decision.

Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation and lengthening days, impacting technology and space travel.

The Electoral College allowed two presidents who lost the popular vote to pull out of international climate agreements. It could happen again in 2024.

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Department of State v. Muñoz threatens marital equality.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the bump stock ban underscores the urgent need for electoral reform to ensure legislation aligns with American values.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade, facilitated by an Electoral College system that misrepresents popular will, has led to increased social media censorship of essential reproductive health information.

As record-breaking high temperatures persist, the flawed Electoral College and lack of proportional representation in Congress stall essential climate action.

Recent Supreme Court decisions have upheld partisan and racial gerrymandering in states like South Carolina and Arkansas.

Louisiana’s controversial new law on abortion medication underscores the extreme effects of the Electoral College

A presidential candidate who loses the popular vote in 2016 nonetheless ascends to office via the Electoral College. As president, he then cements a far-right majority on the Supreme Court....

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Last year marked a moment of reckoning for racial equality in the United States. The murder of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, culminated in renewed demands for racial equity, consideration, and representation, which were echoed worldwide. Lesli Vinjamuri, Director of the US and Americas Program at Chattman House, observes, “The democratic partners of the United States will be hard-pressed to persuade their own people to stand alongside a nation that promotes universal human rights abroad while shortchanging these values at home.”

Studies in women’s political representation have shown that women bring to political office numerous benefits, including greater cooperation, women’s empowerment, and economic growth. Yet women remain severely underrepresented in political office in countries around the world. While democratic systems and institutions are a first step at ameliorating this problem, not all democracies are created equal. Structural considerations in democracies, like a nation’s electoral system, have an influence on who is being represented.

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years.

U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 3, clause 1.

Forged in fire and feather quills, this line of text, allocating two senators to each state…

After the pomp and circumstance—the celebratory confetti of the inaugural address, thousands of handshakes, hundreds of rallies, tens of debates, and one triumphant campaign—most presidents are eager to break in their oval office chair by scrawling their signature across the sweeping legislation they promised voters along the campaign trail.

President Donald Trump, however, is an exception.

All the talk about what the American people think about impeaching and removing the president is pretty misleading.

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The Trump administration’s move to curtail nutritional support for hungry Americans highlights the moral consequences of our undemocratic election system.

While everyone was focused on the final day of impeachment debate in the House, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled, in a split decision, that the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional—and also that its unconstitutionality might doom the entire Act.

Few modern “democracies” choose their leaders by an election system as hideously undemocratic as ours in the United States. One that does is the UK, from which we inherited our practice of filling seats in our legislature entirely through single-winner elections in geographic districts. So it’s worth taking a look at what that system wrought in yesterday’s election there.

The U.N. Climate Change Conference began yesterday in Madrid. As Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Sunday, the climate crisis could soon reach the “point of no return,” because “the world’s largest emitters are not pulling their weight. And without them, our goal is unreachable.”

Now that the 2020 presidential election is in full swing, the Democratic candidates are carefully positioning themselves on a variety of partisan issues. Immigration, healthcare, and the economy are among the most pressing issues that will come to define the winners in the coming months—but they aren’t the only ones. Perhaps the candidates should direct more focus toward the issue that may actually determine the next president: the Electoral College.

Although the man currently occupying the oval office believes the Fourth of July is about tanks, it’s really about the right of the people to government by our consent.

Check out democratism’s very first video. What would the Senate look like if our election system followed basic democratic principles? How different would that be from the Senate we have?

The new House is expected to consider a package of necessary democracy reforms within the first few weeks of the New Year, but nobody expects it to become law.

On this July 4th, look to the Declaration of Independence. It’s our instruction manual for freeing ourselves from tyranny. Here’s what it says: Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. The purpose of government is to secure the right of the people to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of that purpose, it is the right of the people to alter it.