As can be seen by the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2016, the current Electoral system can elect a candidate who receives a smaller portion of the popular vote. While this seems inherently unfair, there are those that feel that without the protection of the Electoral College, larger, more populous states would have the ability to dominate the smaller states and render their voices mute. This new proposal keeps the current protection of the smaller states. They receive the same number of votes, but it eliminates the inherent unfairness of the current winner-take-all system. This ensures that a conservative voter in a conservative district in an otherwise liberal state (or vice versa, a liberal in a conservative state) would actually have a voice in the presidential election, it would matter how they vote. Since every vote would matter, it would encourage more people to vote.

Because people are out here starving , no food to eat and children are under nourished and can't focus because they're hungry. Parents don't know whether to pay bills or feed families and we throwing food away by the tons on a daily basis like that's the right thing to do all because people worrying about being sued.

Help three Bellingham High School juniors raise awareness and bring about a change in the ineffective and unethical American prison system.

It's time to end the failed war on marijuana and allow safe access for suffering Iowans who could get relief from marijuana. It's also time to stop ruining lives over a harmless plant.

1/24/21 Senate Republicans know that Trump deserves to be convicted , but they are still frightened of crossing Trump and his base. Only 17 GOP senators are needed to convict, and the Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, has told his caucus to vote their conscience. A secret ballot would allow them to do this. The senators are not only witnesses to the insurrection, they are also victims, being forced to flee and hide for several hours. Trump's speech to the mob of his supporters is public, as is his subsequent message "We love you, you are special". His months of whipping up the alt-right to believe that he actually won the 2020 election is public, as is his encouragement of the motto, "Stop the Steal". “The mob was fed lies,” McConnell said on the Senate floor on the last full day of Trump’s presidency. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. More and more evidence is coming to light that he or his staff was in touch with the leaders of the crowd, and helped them to plan; also, that he was behind the slow response of law enforcement, especially of calling up the National Guard. The Senate will convict Trump, if they are allowed to vote by secret ballot. Please sign and disseminate the petition: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/senate-vote-on-trump And write to Senate Majority Leader Schumer asking him to introduce a motion for a secret ballot. Charles Schumer (D- NY) www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/email-chuck Dear Senator Schumer, Please introduce a motion to have the verdict on Trump’s guilt or innocence determined by secret ballot. This is customary in jury trials. It would give GOP senators the right to vote their conscience, rather than giving in to the pressure to vote the party line for acquittal. Our democracy is on the line.

Putin wakes up each day thrilled that House and Senate Republicans are regurgitating his disinformation talking points about Ukraine and the 2016 election and the Bidens. These complicit Putin Republicans are helping to sow discord within our democracy resulting in mistrust of our institutions and the electoral process. Until proven otherwise, it's time to re-brand each House and Senate member as a PUTIN REPUBLICAN - MAKING RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN! Perhaps rank and file Republicans will find their voices and courage to stand for the party of Reagan and Lincoln again. Let the restoration process begin with this step.

President Trump’s web of lies and corruption is continuing to grow -- and the latest to be implicated is California Representative Devin Nunes. Rep. Nunes -- ranking member of House Intelligence Committee and one of President Trump’s most aggressive supporters in Congress -- is under suspicion of meeting with former Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin in Vienna last year. The purpose of this alleged covert meeting? To obtain information on Trump’s political rival, Vice President Joe Biden. If true, these new accusations would implicate Rep. Nunes in the crime at the heart of Trump’s impeachment inquiry -- and raise new questions as to how deep the Trump administration’s corruption goes. Rep. Nunes is threatening and attempting to discredit news outlets like CNN that reported this story. Congress must thoroughly and expeditiously investigate these claims. Rep. Nunes, who has access to classified and top-secret information, has already lied and sought to derail the House’s impeachment investigation -- and we can’t let him cover up his own potential role in Trump’s scheme. Add your name to tell Congress: the American people deserve a democracy where elected officials are held to the highest ethical standards -- and those who fail to meet such standards are held accountable.

On Sunday, November 24th, an innocent woman was killed in a deadly car crash -- due to STREET RACING. Despite numerous calls to the Bakersfield Police Department, emails and pleas to elected officials as well as heightened media/stories on the issue over the last few months, STREET RACING still occurs NIGHTLY in SW Bakersfield. More than 1000 cars have been known to gather at Kohls on Gosford, where it seems to begin. Where is the response from our city leaders? Why can't city leaders work collaboratively with businesses and shopping center owners to put in preventive measures? Please sign this petition to indicate silence is not acceptable and this type of street racing has to be addressed and stopped. How many innocent people will be killed? Waiting for new police cadets via Measure N funds is not an acceptable answer. Street racing like this is not acceptable! For more on this issue, see the column by Robert Price https://www.bakersfield.com/columnists/robert-price/robert-price-deafening-street-racing-has-southwest-bakersfield-residents-fed/article_b695f4a2-0710-11ea-b992-abc180cfd4be.html PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION AND SHARE WITH OTHERS!

Parents demand immediate action to remove FLAVORed e-cigarets. Our children are not guinea pigs. We can not let them be the first generation who will suffer lifelong diseases related to vaping. We are the only one who can help them today to protect them from child targeting marketing including chocolate milk flavors with the same amount of nicotine in one package as is in a pack of cigarettes. Loudoun county community is known for its clean air, strong middle-class families and health-oriented lifestyle. “Seven states in America have gone all-in on e-cigarette bans. Massachusetts outdid earlier vape bans in New York and Michigan by banning the sale of all vape products—not just flavored ones. States from Rhode Island to Montana to Oregon are enacting their own bans as more consider similar regulation.” Let’s join this movement.

HB3888 will protect IL communities from cancer-causing ethylene oxide gas that is emitted in the air our children breathe.

Mitch McConnell MUST recuse from participation in the Trump Impeachment trial. It is inappropriate for him to be in a position to influence who testifies and how the proceedings of the trial would take place. He has publicly stated that he will not be fair in his Oath of Office duties. He also has a conflict of interest where his wife is directly employed by, and, owes her job in the President’s Cabinet directly to Trump. A U.S. Senator in this situation with any integrity would recuse oneself from participating in the trial of the President, as he cannot fairly speak for the people.

This petition requests for HB3888 to get out of the Executive Committee to be voted on the Senate.