"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

"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 · last mo.

The 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."

"There is one reform that is adequate to the task [of stopping gerrymandering] and is suddenly relevant and realistic." @edkilgore.bsky.social @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

This Big Idea Could Fix America’s Gerrymandering Madness

The Callais decision put us in a redistricting doom loop. Embracing proportional representation may be the only way out.

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Finally, the research shows what I've been saying for years. The Two-Party Doom Loop is driving us all crazy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Thanks @albertsonb2.bsky.social for confirming it scientifically.

"For now, the two-party system is likely to continue dominating. But with discontent among voters in both the Republican and Democratic bases, a mainstream push to get away from the system could be in the near future." @wshu.org @mollyi.bsky.social www.wshu.org/news/2026-04...

Why the U.S. remains a two-party system

Why does the U.S. have only two major parties? A look at how the election system, voting rules and political incentives keep Democrats and Republicans in power.

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"Congress can reform itself. . . Lots of small, internal reforms have been enacted, but there is a lot more work to be done."@kevinrkosar.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

Opinion | The Best-Kept Secret in Washington

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Fix Our House founder @leedrutman.bsky.social is in the @washingtonpost.com's Next 50: the people shaping the future of our society. "The times they are a-changin" www.washingtonpost.com/post-next/in...

Growing support for proportional representation on the right

Proportional representation systems can't be gerrymandered. Don't believe me? Give it a try! I made a gerrymandering simulator with an imaginary state under either single-member districts or multi-member proportional districts. How much can YOU gerrymander? claude.ai/public/artif...

Gerrymander Game: Interactive Electoral Districts Tool

Learn how gerrymandering affects elections. Interactive game comparing single-member vs multi-member districts with real-time seat allocation results.

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@notus.com asked for under-the-radar ideas that could have a big impact on the country. Our answer: MGP and Jared Golden's Select Committee on Electoral Reform. It's a big step to break us out of the two-party doom loop. www.notus.org/perspectives...

Name an under-the-radar idea that could pass Congress this year and have a big impact on the country.

Loren DeJonge Schulman, Lee Drutman, Joseph Dunne, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), Maya MacGuineas, Daniel Cochrane, Nicol Turner Lee, Vivek Chilukuri

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America's electoral rules make us uniquely vulnerable to gerrymandering. But Congress has the power to *change those rules* and adopt proportional representation, giving everyone a voice no matter where they live. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

U.S. stands out globally in how it draws legislative districts

Among 107 democracies, we found that only one other country uses the same redistricting approach as the U.S.

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"Proportional representation isn't just a policy change. It's a chance to revive faith in democracy." @protectdemocracy.org

How Proportional Representation Could End Gerrymandering

YouTube video by Protect Democracy

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"The winner-take-all system is at the heart of the problem." @sun-sentinel.com www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/12/02/h...

How proportional representation overcomes gerrymandering | Opinion

“Democracies that use proportional systems consistently show higher turnout, more accurate representation, more competitive elections, and less polarized partisan animosity,” writes a s…

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Imagine if Congress actually worked like the founders and Schoolhouse Rock said it should work. Here are some common sense proposals from Alex Tausanovich and Cyrena Kokolis to let Congress be Congress. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-the-pa...

The counterintuitive way to fix Congress

Internal divisions are good, actually

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"The extreme division in our country is extraordinarily alarming and sad. It's embedded in the in the two party system... Everyday Americans are so sick of it." @repmtgreene.bsky.social is right -- our toxic division is embedded in our two-party system. We need to break out of it.

For those of yall finding your political tribes, take the next step -- imagine how a few changes in the law could make our politics reflect the diversity hiding right under the surface. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

DC elites need to catch up with voters' understanding of how broken our government actually is. Minor tweaks won't solve our problems. We need major reform. @rorytruex.bsky.social @leedrutman.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

We Need Political Reform

Here's What It Might Look Like

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A fix to our disproportionate and gerrymandered election districts is within Congress's power to change. Protect Democracy organized a major turnout of political scientists with expertise on the matter to explain how: protectdemocracy.org/work/democra...

Over 200 Democracy Scholars Call on Congress to End Single-Member Congressional District

More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.

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Conservatives make up about 40% of New England, and yet all of New England's representatives are Democrats. That's how broken our political system is: 40% of the vote would mean about 40% of the seats, not zero! @jacksantucci.bsky.social on why Republicans should consider electoral reform

Republicans Should Consider Electoral Reform

Proportional representation is a smart way to ensure that conservatives in blue states are heard.

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