This September in Washington, leaders from across independent politics and democracy reform will gather alongside independent candidates from across the country. The significance is what becomes possible when an increasingly large but fragmented political ecosystem begins to coordinate.
As more Americans identify outside the two major parties, independent voters are challenging primary rules that can leave them out of the elections that shape their communities.
Independent candidates are multiplying, independent voters are organizing, and the two-party system is facing a challenge it thought it had buried decades ago.
A new poll shows 51% of Massachusetts voters support replacing the state's partisan primary system with a nonpartisan open primary where all candidates appear on one ballot, a change that will appear on the November ballot.
After another setback for open primaries, reformers say the real breakthrough may be the growing civic power of New York City’s 1.2 million independent voters.
A coalition of California Democrats wants to put independent voters’ right to participate in publicly funded elections into the state Constitution — but getting it before voters will require Republican support.
Chad, Ethan, and Cara sit down with political strategist Mike Madrid, author of The Latino Century, to unpack why Latino voters have become the fastest-growing bloc of independent voters in America.
New polling finds most registered Democrats support letting independents vote in Democratic primaries — and nearly 4 in 10 say they only registered Democratic because New York City gives them no other meaningful choice.
Chad Peace of the Independent Voter Project sat down this week with Crystal Newton and Scott Gavorsky on their podcast 775 Alive, a Nevada-based show that takes the kind of local civic questions most political media glosses over and really digs into them.
The Independent Voter Project (IVP) released a new poll this week that shows a seismic shift in the California governor’s race. But on Reddit, it also hit a nerve for many voters calling for ranked choice elections.
