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If you want to change the game, changing the rules and incentives of the game is a powerful approach. Few people who watch the news - or those folks who avoid watching the news! - would say the political system in the United States is going according to plan. The founding fathers, if they were alive today, would be aghast at the unbridgeable chasm that seems to have developed in our political culture, making dialogue, compromise and progress nearly impossible on some of our most pressing issues.  In fact, our founding fathers warned against the rise of what they called factions in their time, and what we today call political parties.  All of this is happening at a time when the majority of Americans agree that common-sense laws for guns, healthcare and other issues are badly needed. If you look at the numbers, we're closer together on more issues than you'd think. Research shows that our leaders are often much more polarized than we as a people are. Meanwhile, the US and local governments get less done, eroding our confidence in our democracy. What can we do to change the game? Some people say “let's get rid of the electoral college!” but such large scale changes are hard. My guest today has a simple solution that starts at the local level to change the political conversation. Nick Troiano is a civic entrepreneur based in Denver, Colorado, and is the Executive Director of Unite America –– a non-partisan organization that seeks to foster a more functional and representative government.  Nick has been a leader in the political reform movement over the last decade, beginning as a founding staff member of Americans Elect in 2010. Nick ran for Congress in Pennsylvania's 10th District in 2014 and drew national attention as both the youngest candidate that cycle and the most competitive independent U.S. House candidate in nearly two decades. He subsequently worked for Change.org to launch a mobile application to help voters cast informed ballots.  In 2016, Nick was named to the "Forbes 30 Under 30" for Law & Policy. He earned a Master's degree in American Government from Georgetown University. He has spoken on the topics of political and fiscal reform to dozens of groups across the country, including along three national bus tours that collectively visited over 40 states. Nick is the author of The Primary Solution an *excellent* book that explains the challenge and a viable set of solutions to political division in America, and a producer on the 2024 film Majority Rules which lets you watch political change unfold in real-time. I highly recommend watching Majority Rules - you can rent it on Youtube now! You will see partisan politicians learn to navigate a different political game as the rules are changed - and become more issues-focused instead of attacking personalities, and more inclusive than divisive. I also highly recommend supporting primary reform in your region - it's a non-partisan issue that can help us become less partisan! Listen to the end where Nick and I discuss how he leads his organization and builds coalitions while living his leadership and political values. Head over to theconversationfactory.com/listen for full episode transcripts, links, show notes  and more key quotes and ideas. You can also head over there and become a monthly supporter of the show for as little as $8 a month. You'll get complimentary access to exclusive workshops and resources that I only share with this circle of facilitators and leaders. Links The Primary Solution https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Primary-Solution/Nick-Troiano/9781668028254 Majority Rules.  https://majorityrulesfilm.com/ David Mayhew's Book “Congress: The Electoral Connection”

We discuss race in the presidential campaign and the fallout from the debate with Terri Givens, Professor of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of British Columbia. Professor Terri Givens joins Dr Emma Shortis on this episode of After America to discuss race in American politics and whether the country is ready to elect a Black female president. This discussion was recorded on Friday 13 September 2024 and things may have changed since recording. australiainstitute.org.au // @theausinstitute Guest: Terri Givens, Professor of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, University of British Columbia Host: Emma Shortis, Senior Research for International & Security Affairs, the Australia Institute // @EmmaShortis Show notes: ‘Race, gender and politics: Is the United States ready for a Black woman president?' by Terri Givens, The Conversation (July 2024) ‘Is America ready to elect a Black woman president?' by Emma Shortis, The Conversation (September 2024) The Roots of Racism: The politics of white supremacy in the US and Europe by Terri Givens (January 2022) Radical Empathy: Finding a path to bridging racial divides by Terri Givens (February 2022) ‘With Democrats "fired up" by Harris' candidacy, young people are now registering to vote in droves' by Nandika Chatterjee, Salon (August 2024) Theme music: Blue Dot Sessions We'd love to hear your feedback on this series, so send in your questions, comments or suggestions for future episodes to podcasts@australiainstitute.org.au.Support After America: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of features a conversation with Nick Troiano, the founding executive director of Unite America. Nick discusses the organization's mission to foster a more functional and representative government through nonpartisan election reform. He highlights the importance of changing the election process to break the cycle of polarization and dysfunction in politics, emphasizing that the current system rewards divisiveness and is not representative of the majority of Americans.The discussion delves into the specifics of election reform, such as the adoption of nonpartisan primaries and ranked-choice voting, as exemplified by Alaska's election system. Nick argues that these reforms can lead to more broadly representative candidates and allow voters to hold elected officials accountable. The episode underscores the critical role of citizen engagement in initiating change and challenges the notion that the current state of politics is unchangeable.To learn more about Unite America visit their website: https://www.uniteamerica.org/Buy Nick's book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Primary-Solution/Nick-Troiano/9781668028254Guest Bio:Nick Troiano is a civic entrepreneur based in Denver, CO. He is the Executive Director of Unite America, a national organization that works to bridge the growing partisan divide by enacting political reforms and electing candidates who put people over party.Nick is active in leading efforts and supporting organizations that are aimed at strengthening American democracy and tackling our country's most pressing challenges. Previously, Nick worked for Change.org on Change Politics – a non-partisan platform that empowers citizens to make informed decisions on Election Day. In 2016, he was named to the "Forbes 30 Under 30" for Law & Policy.Nick ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014 from Pennsylvania's 10th District and drew national attention as both the youngest candidate and the most successful independent of the cycle, garnering over 22,000 votes. In 2012, Nick co-founded The Can Kicks Back campaign to advocate for bipartisan policies to reduce the national debt and was instrumental in the introduction of the INFORM Act to increase transparency in the federal budget. Previously, he served as National Campus Director for Americans Elect where he organized and supported student groups at over 300 colleges nationwide.We have an upcoming documentary about Christian Nationalism We're thrilled to announce an upcoming special audio narrative documentary of Faithful Politics that's been in the works for quite some time – titled "Heavenly Homeland." This groundbreaking project delves into the intricate world of Christian nationalism, exploring its historical roots, contemporary impact, and the nuanced intersection with American politics and faith communities. Support the showTo learn more about the show, contact our hosts, or recommend future guests, click on the links below: Website: https://www.faithfulpoliticspodcast.com/ Faithful Host: Josh@faithfulpoliticspodcast.com Political Host: Will@faithfulpoliticspodcast.com Twitter: @FaithfulPolitik Instagram: faithful_politics Facebook: FaithfulPoliticsPodcast LinkedIn: faithfulpolitics

Today, I interview Michaelene Cristini Risley who grew up in the midwest in an Italian Catholic family. From the start, she tells us that the pedestal men are put on in this culture makes women a little more hesitant to speak in their power. That, coupled with the typical idea that men leave the house but women must be married off, made Michealene want to rebel and live in her own way from a young age. After a couple of situations that occurred in her childhood, she distinctly remembers the voice inside her saying, "I'm going away now". She felt like she swallowed her voice and it was gone. She was afraid and intimidated, and she didn't feel safe. Michealene has worked in the field of human trafficking.  She learned about the people involved in this process and has made it her life's mission to be a force for good regarding this cause, among others. She hopes to educate people, build communication, and simply let people know that the issues we face don't have to continue – that there are solutions out there. Michealene has learned that a key to understanding her voice is in her ability to discern where, when, and how to use it. In her work advocating for abused and trafficked individuals, she has honed those skills, realizing that in some situations, speaking more than the bare minimum can put her or others in danger or compromise a situation. But there is also such beauty in the work she does, as she's able to powerfully speak up on behalf of others, often becoming the agent who leads to their rescue. The takeaway she wants to leave us with is gratitude. She is grateful for her life and the opportunities she's had to make a difference in this world.___________ Michealene Cristini Risley is an American writer, director, and human rights activist. She ran for the Americans Elect nomination for President of the United States in 2012 and is currently creating a new primetime live-action series based on her activism, called Warriors of the Light. Find Michealene here: http://www.michealene.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michealene_Risley ___________I'm your podcast host, Dr. Doreen Downing, and I help people find their voice so they can overcome anxiety, be confident, and speak without fear. Get started now on your journey to your authentic voice by downloading my Free 7 Step Guide to Fearless Speaking: https://www.doreen7steps.com. 

Hey, y'all! This week we are diving into somewhat of a fad movement on the late aughts and early 10s: online voting. While no one has yet to perfect voting in federal elections via an app, there were a pair of centrist movements that sought nominate a ticket for president though an online primary & convention. 

Alexandra Shapiro, J.D., and Peter Ackerman, Ph.D. join T. J. O'Hara, the host of Deconstructed, to discuss the incredible imbalance in our Nation's presidential election that makes it almost impossible for independent and Third-Party candidates to gain any traction with their campaigns. Ms. Shapiro is a partner and co-founder of Shapiro Arato Bach and has the distinction of being one of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first clerks. She has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and has represented Dr. Ackerman's interests in a variety of lawsuits against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on behalf of organizations he has founded to combat the major Parties' stranglehold on the presidency. Dr. Ackerman's pursuit of fairness within presidential and other elections is legendary. He served on the Board of Unity08 to fund independent candidates and then founded and chaired Americans Elect, whose mission was to stage a national online convention to select a nonpartisan ticket for the 2012 presidential election that would be on the ballot in all 50 states. The rules of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), run by Democrat and Republican operatives, effectively destroyed Americans Elect effort to provide a viable alternative by preventing that organization's ultimate ticket from being included in the presidential debates. Dr. Ackerman and Ms. Shapiro discuss a number of lawsuits they have pursued against the FEC on behalf of Unity08 and Level the Playing Field (an organization that Dr. Ackerman formed after the demise of Americans Elect) and the uphill battle they have encountered when taking on that agency. The FEC has authorized the CPD to establish the rules of the presidential debates, but the CPD has created rules that essentially bar competition. Listen to learn just how unfair those rules have become and how they are protected to maintain the dominance of the Democrat and Republican Parties. Dr. Ackerman also discusses Ranked Choice Voting as a critical element to overcoming the duopoly that maintains the status quo in favor of itself. He founded the Chamberlain Project with Cara McCormick, who helped lead the successful Ranked Choice Voting campaign in Maine. Dr. Ackerman discusses why he thinks Ranked Choice Voting may be the key to creating elections that may begin to change the hyper-partisan nature of our government. The discussion is enlightening and presents a ray of hope for a better political future. Listen to learn how the system has been engineered to provide a limited choice to the people but a consistent source of power for the two major Parties. You will also learn how hard people like Ms. Shapiro and Dr. Ackerman are fighting on your behalf.

Can Ideology Define How Culture Comports Itself? © 2021 Vol.1 ISBN978-976-96579-8-4 is the posited the question which must be asked in view of the fact that ideology is a part of culture “which has a number of functions in literature, such as determines what literature is allowed to say, as when an official ideology leads to censorship of literature that doesn't conform to officially sanctioned ideas.” this statement is attributed to Robert C. Evans. William Anderson Gittens Author, Cinematographer Dip.Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher,CEO Devgro Media Arts Services®2015,Editor in Chief of Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing®2015WORKS CITED"20% Share of women in parliament". Our World in Data. Retrieved 15 February 2020. "How the Westminster Parliamentary System was exported around the World". University of Cambridge. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013"Parthians' Achievements". Retrieved 1 January 2019. "The Shura Principle in Islam – by Sadek Sulaiman". alhewar.com. "مهستان". Retrieved 1 January 2019. Bongard-Levin, G.M. (1986). A complex study of Ancient India. South Asia Books. ISBN 81-202-0141-8. Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake, May 18, 2012, The Washington Post, Americans Elect and the death of the third party movementArchived 2020-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed August 11, 2013 History Learning Site, Why America is a two-party stateArchived 2015-06-08 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed August 12, 2013, "...The American electoral system – winner-takes-all – guarantees that any third, fourth party etc has no chance of winning...." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party#:~:text=The%20party%20system%20that%20emerged,of%20the%20late%2017th%20century. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228945565_The_Validity_and_Accuracy_of_Commonly_Used_Ideology_Measures_A_Consumer's_Guide/fulltext/0004895b0cf2ed98fb43b5c7/The-Validity-and-Accuracy-of-Commonly-Used-Ideology-Measures-A-Consumers-Guide.pdf Jack Schofield (June 8, 2009). "Sweden's Pirate Party wins EU seat (updated)". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 13, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2011. “The Pirate Party ... wants to legalise internet file-sharing and protect people's privacy on the net ... There *IS* a UK Pirate Party ... and there's a US ... one, and one in a few dozen others."” Jacobsen, T. (July 1943). "Primitive Democracy in Ancient Mesopotamia". Journal of Near Eastern Studies 2 (3): 159–172. doi:10.1086/370672. JSTOR 542482. John Dunn:Democracy: A History, p.24 Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Wig, Tore (2017). "Autocratic elections: Stabilizing tool or force for change?". World Politics. 69 (1): 98–143. doi:10.1017/S0043887116000149 Kopstein, Jeffrey; Lichbach, Mark; Hanson, Stephen E., eds. (2014). Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order (4, revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 37–9. ISBN 978-1139991384. "Britain pioneered the system of liberal democracy that has now spread in one form or another to most of the world's countries" Larsen, J.A.O. (Jan. 1973). "Demokratia". Classical Philology 68 (1): 45–46. doi:10.1086/365921. JSTOR 268788. Political System Encyclopædia Britannica Online Ryan Lizza (April 16, 2006). "But Is a Third Party Possible?". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2010. “In the nineteenth century, third parties were single-issue creatures that grew up around great causes that the major parties were ignoring. Abolition, women’s suffrage, and the direct electiSupport the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

I am proud to witness the election of Joe Biden as the 46th President and Kamala Harris the 46th Vice President of the United States. People all over the world are celebrated this historic election. Kamala Harris, a black woman and HBCU graduate, has made history! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tripofchangepodcast/message

The United States will elect its next President today. While four candidates are on the ballot in most states only two have a viable chance of winning enough electoral college votes to replace President Barack Obama in the White House. National polls have Democratic Hillary Clinton maintaining a three to six point advantage over Republican nominee Donald Trump. Sherwin Bryce Pease filled this report.

Sarah and John discuss the demise of Americans Elect, public cartooning, challenging society's unwritten rules, the pitfalls of relating to independent voters as a consumer category, and the success and limitations of Aristotelian logic. Plus, what is the logic of childhood? Tune in to find out...or at least find out that its something we are grappling to understand? Email your questions/comments/ideas to twoindependents@gmail.com. We need questions!

Sam talks about: * Obama on Gay Marriage * Candidate Ancient History * Ron Paul Out? / PCO / Americans Elect / Third Parties * Regulations / Too Big to Fail

Sam and Ivan talk about: * Slow Days * Google / Information Silos / Privacy * Post Cash World * Election 2012 / Third Parties / Veeps

Romney reviled recidivist reviser-flip flop offender/contender. Romney's Bain Capital decimates local radio markets! Americans Elect is planning to nominate a centrist third-party candidate for 2012. Dangers of Monopoly Capitalism...World Central Bank...Global Gov't.

Mike talks with Jim Jonas, a founding director of the [National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers](https://nonpartisanreformers.org/) and co-founder of Colorado Independent Voters. Jim is an experienced political, public affairs and corporate communication consultant based in Denver, Colorado. For the last decade he's helped create and manage a wide variety of entrepreneurial, disruptive political organizations and campaigns to promote independent/nonpartisan causes and candidates. He was a co-founder of Unity '08, a consultant to Americans Elect, and the campaign manager to Greg Orman's independent campaign for the US Senate in Kansas in 2014. Jim got his start in politics writing and producing political media for consulting legend Roger Ailes in New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC. He also served as Senator Lamar Alexander's communications director for his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in 1996. Mike and Jim discuss whether political elites have too much power, the barriers both major parties have set up to reform, how reform can happen, and what listeners can do to help the cause of nonpartisan reform. **[Jim Jonas on Twitter](https://twitter.com/jimjonas)** **Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible**. If you're interested in supporting the show, go to [politicsguys.com/support](http://www.politicsguys.com/support). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy