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Advocating for more functional and representative government through multi-member districts and proportional representation. Join us! ⚙️ 🏛 fixourhouse.org Co-founders: @leedrutman.bsky.social & @ezup.bsky.social Executive Director: @dustinwahl.bsky.social
Proportional representation is "an opportunity to kind of reset and kind of reimagine." marylandmatters.org/2026/09/17/v...
Voting rights advocates regroup as Callais decision threatens Black representation - Maryland Matters
With “the crown jewel” of civil rights legislation gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and possibly the seats of 20 Black members of Congress at stake in November, voting rights advocates on Wednesday c...
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Britain may be on the brink of adopting proportional representation 👀 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation
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We're proud to sign in support of the hugely important congressional modernization effort. bpcaction.org/appetite-for...
Appetite for Modernization Stronger than Ever: Recommendations for Congress - BPC Action
BPC Action, along with members of the Fix Congress Cohort, sent a letter to the Subcommittee on Modernization and Innovation expressing their gratitude for the work the subcommittee has done throughou...
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Working class Americans deserve proportional representation www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
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🚨 1 in 10 Americans were used as political pawns in the gerrymandering wars between the two parties, according to a new report from @protectdemocracy.org. Proportional representation is the only ultimate solution. protectdemocracy.org/work/what-ge...
What gerrymandering costs voters
Our new report quantifies the practical costs of the forever redistricting wars on American voters.
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"Replacing winner-take-all is necessary not only for fairness but also for restoring democratic legitimacy." @americanbar.org www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/...
Democratic Legitimacy: Voting Rights and Proportional Representation
After Callais v. Louisiana, winner-take-all districts make racial and partisan gerrymandering inevitable, and proportional representation through the Fair Representation Act would better protect votin...
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The only ultimate solution to gerrymandering is proportional representation
The solution to gerrymandering is proportional representation. Pass it on!
Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 5mo agoThe solution to gerrymandering has been known for nearly two hundred years at this point. When we take back power we should do a new VRA that requires proportional representation (after we deal with the Court, of course, to ensure the law sticks) youtu.be/T7_LmqR0a04?...
@gluesenkampperez.house.gov is calling on the Rules Committee to adopt the Select Committee on Electoral Reform www.youtube.com/live/dpyRrbt...
Rules Committee Member Day Hearing for Proposed Rules Changes for the 120th Congress
YouTube video by HouseRules
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"Adopting proportional representation would restore competitive elections to the House and end the scourge of gerrymandering forever." @mford.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2139...
Make Congress Great Again
Much of what ails us can be blamed on the steady degradation of the legislature as the other branches of government grabbed power for themselves. It’s time to start undoing the damage.
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"The verdict on the two-party system is in. The case for what comes after it remains to be made." www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/...
Americans hate the two-party system but don’t know what should replace it
Voters overwhelmingly want something different, but don’t know or understand the reform options on the table.
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"The problem goes deeper than the recent gerrymandering and cannot be solved without reforming our electoral system." @ajc.com www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...
Georgia Republicans reined in the gerrymandering war. Now change the system.
The current congressional map for Georgia gives nine of 14 House seats to Republicans and five to Democrats, but Georgia is divided politically 50-50. The system must change.
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"Until the game changes, gerrymandering will only escalate. . . proportional representation is something Americans can, and are, warming to." @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social in the @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/13/o...
Gerrymandering won. It’s time to change the rules. - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation.
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I've spent my career fighting gerrymandering through litigation, advocacy, and public education. I even lost huge in the Supreme Court. After Callais, I'm convinced the tools are nearly gone. The problem is structural. My case for proportional representation, in @GlobeOpinion: protdem.org/45XQYuL
Gerrymandering won. It’s time to change the rules. - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court has closed off nearly every legal avenue for challenging partisan gerrymandering. The answer isn’t better maps. It’s proportional representation.
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New polling from @newamerica.org and @fixourhouse.bsky.social shows significant voter support for moving away from winner-take-all elections in the U.S.—and openness to new systems like proportional representation: www.npr.org/2026/08/10/n...
Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they're open to big changes
A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.
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"A new poll suggests many Americans may be more open to major changes in the U.S. electoral system than previously thought, including expanding the House of Representatives by 150 seats and adopting a form of proportional representation." @newsweek.com www.newsweek.com/voters-back-...
Voters back adding 150 new lawmakers to Congress
A poll has found majority support for adding 150 House seats, though major electoral reforms remain unlikely in Congress.
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Our new poll with @newamerica.org and @verasight.io shows majority support for proportional representation. These strong numbers "mark a starting point for a national conversation about how to break out of the country's two-party system." www.npr.org/2026/08/10/n...
Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they're open to big changes
A new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share.
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"The country has decided that two parties are not enough -- one finding where popular opinion remarkably tracks expert consensus." @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/americans-...
Americans Hate the Two-Party System But Don’t Know What Should Replace It, ISMA Populism Survey Finds
Voters overwhelmingly want something different, but don’t know or understand the reform options on the table
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"500 of the nation's top democracy, voting rights, and legal experts, have signed an open letter to Congress, urging lawmakers to consider one solution: proportional representation." www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_1d...
Group urges Congress to adopt proportional representation to end redistricting battles
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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"The two-party system’s chokehold on our politics threatens the very ideals this country was founded on." @osbornforne.bsky.social in @owhnews.bsky.social t.co/v6KsuJPDV7
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"Proportional representation is unique among reforms because it sits upstream of all the others." @farbodnagra.bsky.social and Cyrena Kokolis in @npquarterly.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org nonprofitquarterly.org/what-is-civi...
What Is Civil Society’s Transformative Vision for Democracy? | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Civil society is playing defense against authoritarianism—but defense alone won’t be enough. Two Protect Democracy advocates make the case for proportional representation as the structural reform that...
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Part of the reason our politicians are so old is that our elections are so uncompetitive. Another problem that proportional representation can help us solve!
Dustin Wahl@dustinwahl.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe American Revolution was partially a generational revolution -- children growing up and making a new home for themselves. We need something similar today. t.co/lOevRCYjhZ
We need to bring Congress up to speed in the 21st century www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4618...
Congress is struggling to get its work done
Today’s legislators should summon the courage to reform Congress to meet the needs of 21st-century Americans.
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Nonpartisan redistricting is not enough. We need true reform to stop gerrymandering. @spenceroverton.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/camp...
Why nonpartisan redistricting is not enough
Today, we are facing a watershed moment. If a political window for democracy reform opens, we should not settle for half-measures. We may not have another opportunity for decades.
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John Adams said Congress should be a "portrait in miniature" of the American people. That's proportional representation, and it's the solution to the gerrymandering wars. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/12/o...
What would John Adams have said about today’s redistricting frenzy? - The Boston Globe
Adams did not say election rules might be twisted so that one party could rule above all or might be manipulated to squeeze out large demographic or political voting blocs.
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There's a lot of diversity underneath the surface of the two-party system. America is too big for two parties! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Study splits Americans into nine political groups. Where do you belong?
Polling 10,000 Americans, the Pew Research Center found divisions on the political left and right, plus the Tuned-Out Middle.
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Cato Institute on the benefits of proportional representation: "How to Fix the Gerrymandering Problem" www.cato.org/blog/multi-m...
Multimember Districts: How to Fix the Gerrymandering Problem
Multimember districts might offer a solution to the gerrymandering of congressional districts.
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Conservative EPPC writer Henry Olsen: "A system employing proportional representation could halt gerrymandering — and the damage it does to representative democracy — in its tracks." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | How to escape the gerrymandering trap
Gerrymandering is breaking American democracy. Here's how other countries solved it.
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Proportional representation has long had the overwhelming support of people whose job is to study elections. We wrote this letter with @protectdemocracy.org in 2022, signed by 200 political scientists and historians. www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/u...
Scholars Ask Congress to Scrap Winner-Take-All Political System (Published 2022)
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Republican Congressman Michael Baumgartner expressing support for the idea of proportional representation: "Washington State is 40% Republican but Rs hold only 2 out of 10 House seats. For representative Democracy to work, people need to feel like they have a fair chance to participate in it."