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Expand Democracy
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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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d
🚨 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · 12d
🚨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
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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · 19d
🚨 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · 26d
🚨 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Sep 11
🚨 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Sep 4
✨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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Aug 21
📚✏️ 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Aug 14
‼️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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Aug 7
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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jul 31
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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jul 24
🚨 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jul 18
🗳️ 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

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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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jul 10
📬 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

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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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jul 3
🚨 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jun 26
📬 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jun 19
🚨 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jun 12
🚨 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jun 6
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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · May 29
🚨 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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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · May 22
🚨 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

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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · May 15
🚨 The latest Expand Democracy 5 is out!

🗳️ @robrichie.bsky.social on how better elections can revive legislatures
📰 RSF’s 2025 Index: Economic fragility threatens press freedom
📊 Getting RCV polling right in NYC

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The Expand Democracy 5 - May 15: Empowering legislatures, better RCV polling, challenges to Democratic health & timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s assistance, we delve into: (1) how better elections could empower legislatures; (2) the 2025 World Press Freedom on dist...
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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · May 1
🚨 New issue of Expand Democracy 5 is out! We cover:
- Mayor Pete on Flagrant
- VRA under threat
- Cross-ideological dialogue
- Expand the House?
- What Pope elections can teach us
- Plus recs from @icivics.bsky.social, @fairvote.bsky.social, and more.
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The Expand Democracy 5: Bridging across ideology, public opinion on the press, House size, electing a new Pope, and timely links
May 1st, 2025
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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 24
This week's The Expand Democracy 5 dives into how the Campaign Finance Board makes public financing work in New York City, D.C. statehood, ballot access fairness, and more! Read on using the link below ⬇️
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The Expand Democracy 5: Public financing, judicial reform, good government, ballot access and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s assistance, we delve into the following links.
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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 24
This week's The Expand Democracy 5 dives into how the Campaign Finance Board makes public financing work in New York City, D.C. statehood, ballot access fairness, and more! Read on using the link below ⬇️
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The Expand Democracy 5: Public financing, judicial reform, good government, ballot access and timely links
Welcome to the latest edition of The Expand Democracy 5. With Eveline Dowling’s assistance, we delve into the following links.
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Expand Democracy @expanddemocracy.bsky.social · Apr 17
Check out the latest issue of The Expand Democracy 5! This week, we discuss voter turnout in off-calendar elections, RCV at college campuses, and updates on electoral college reform. Read more here:

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The Expand Democracy 5: Turnout in off-cycle elections, RCV on campus, and Electoral College reform
April 17th, 2025
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