Wikler believes that local and state elections are fundamental to restoring democracy, but his book also addresses, in concrete steps, how to restore democracy in the House, Senate, presidency and Supreme Court, with a timeline for action.
Destroying Black civil rights destroys everyone’s rights. If one of us isn’t free, none of us is free. We all have a responsibility to each other to fight and to take back every freedom that has been taken from us.
The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision loosened campaign finance restrictions and allowed anonymous corporations, non-profits, labor unions, super PACs, anonymous “dark money” sources, and the ultra-rich to donate unlimited sums to politicians and campaigns.
Wareham almost opted out of mail-in voting for the upcoming municipal election. If not for the watchful eye of one resident, we might have lost the option for mail-in voting.
We’ve talked for years about the lack of transparency in the MA Statehouse, how it is ranked in the bottom fourth of the nation, how it often takes a decade for laws with popular support to get passed. Our Statehouse suffers from many of the problems that David Pepper outlines, it just has a veneer of blue.
