In an age when democracy feels more like a battleground than a meeting of minds, something remarkable happened in my small ...

With only 562 days until the 2026 midterm elections, pundits have begun making predictions, and the Democrats' progressive ...

In a dramatic shift following the April 15 special mayoral election in Oakland, former U.S. Representative Barbara Lee has ...

As California’s legal cannabis industry heads into the second half of 2025, store owners are facing a combination of rising ...

Cortez wrapped up their Fighting Oligarchy Tour on April 16, after a five-day, seven-stop sweep through the West that drew ...

Oakland, CA used ranked choice voting (RCV) in special elections for mayor and City Council District 2 – marking Oakland’s ...

The latest polling data from Gallup shows that the number one problem facing the US for most voters now is not the economy, ...

A new party launched Tuesday in New Mexico following the passage of open primaries legislation in the state. The Forward ...

It’s a bipartisan effort. Independent voters are tired of division and Congress’s inability to achieve results. We rarely see a bipartisan effort in Congress today because, in many respects, we are ...

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The Independent Voter Project (IVP) and its sister organization the Foundation for Independent Voter Education (FIVE) published IVN, to be a new kind of news network and provide unfiltered political ...