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Dustin Wahl

@dustinwahl.bsky.social
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electoral reform, Fix Our House ⚙️🏛️ | fmr comms director, Dan Osborn for Senate | Omaha / Sioux Falls / DC

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Fix Our House @fixourhouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🚨 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...
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What gerrymandering costs voters
Our new report quantifies the practical costs of the forever redistricting wars on American voters.
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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine @btlradionews.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Democracy Advocates Push for Proportional Representation in U.S. House: Interview with @dustinwahl.bsky.social, executive director of @fixourhouse.bsky.social, conducted by Scott Harris. Listen Here > btlonline.org/democracy-ad...
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Democracy Advocates Push for Proportional Representation in U.S. House
Dustin Wahl, executive director of Fix Our House, discusses how democracy advocates are pushing for proportional representation in U.S. House to end the doom loop of polarization and dysfunction, and ...
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Fix Our House @fixourhouse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Strong numbers like these are "not something we would have expected to see necessarily four years ago, for instance. But as the problems grow, the desire for solutions grows, as well." @dustinwahl.bsky.social
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Kash Patel celebrating with the boys
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“You do not save democracy by running around yelling about saving democracy. You do it by demonstrating that democracy and Democratic values deliver better quality of life for normal people.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
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Opinion | This Rural Congresswoman Thinks Democrats Have Lost Their Minds. She Has a Point.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Of 107 democracies studied by @pewresearch.org, only one other country uses the same redistricting approach as the US, that is, single-member districts drawn mainly by state legislatures: the Federated States of Micronesia, with a population of around 100,000. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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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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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/10/2025
Here is a wide-ranging podcast between myself and Lee Drutman about polling, moderation, spatial voting, electoral reform, and general all things politics and numbers right now: www.politicsinquestion.com/episodes/pol...
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What Can the Data Tell Us? — Politics In Question
In this week’s episode of Politics in Question , Lee talks with G. Elliot Morris about all things polling. Morris is data-driven journalist and author of Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and…
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Political Reform and Civic Engagement @politicalreform.newamerica.org · 22/10/2025
Most elections in America aren’t competitive, but Omaha was an exception. @leedrutman.bsky.social and @dustinwahl.bsky.social explain why the real issue is our broken electoral system: riponsociety.org/article/is-t...
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Is There Room in American Politics for the Don Bacons of the World? | The Ripon Society
Bacon’s success is thanks to strong relationships in his district and his brand as a centrist, opposing his party line just often enough to win over voters ...
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This is why I took the under on "NBA coach gets arrested in illegal gambling investigation by 2026." The gambling industry's takeover of sports advertising (to the point of announcers touting betting lines during broadcasts) made this inevitable. The corruption unfolded right in front of our eyes.
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Portland Trail Blazers' Billups and Miami Heat’s Rozier arrested in gambling probe, sources say
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier have been arrested in connection with a federal investigation into illegal sports betting.
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The 20th century's mass death events were intentional and hateful. In the digital age, our mass death event is arbitrary and apathetic. If it's true that 14 million die by 2030 without USAID, what do we call that? Neglecticide? Whatever it is, very few of us seem to give a shit
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Mills would be 79 when she takes office, 85 when she retires. Says she'll only serve one term, which shows how useless term limits are to bring down the age of Congress. To bridge the age gap, we need serious reform, as @oscarp.bsky.social and I recently wrote: protectdemocracy.org/work/age-div...
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Proportional representation will bring young people into politics - Protect Democracy
In our new report, we argue that the winner-take-all system suppresses participation among young people and limits their opportunities to influence policy.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Tom Homan took a $50k bribe. Trump killed the investigation. Vance shrugged it off as business as usual. Polls show corruption is THE issue voters care about. The electoral opportunity for Dems to become the anti-corruption party is massive. But first, they must clean their own house to gain trust.
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The Democrats' Path Forward: Become the Anti-Corruption Party
But to reform the system they first need to reform the Democratic Party.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
"Why Support for Political Violence Is Not as High as It May Seem" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express 'the thought that we hate.'" -- noted leftist Justice Alito
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“He’s not an autocrat because he won an election” is a world historically stupid take. Read a book!
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It's true as a matter of perspective, political violence can be much worse than current levels in the US. But neither is it an irrational panic, it's grounded in the less visible but much more widespread reality that getting bombarded with death threats is much more common now than it used to be.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2025
supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney
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Fix Our House @fixourhouse.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"What made Omaha a weird city in 2024 was that its diversity was visible. To fix our failing politics, America needs an electoral system that makes our diversity visible everywhere."
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I spent last summer in the weirdest city in politics. Omaha voted Democrat for President, Independent for Senate, Republican for House. @leedrutman.bsky.social and I explain why places like that are going away, and what we can do about it, in the latest Ripon Forum. riponsociety.org/article/is-t...
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Is There Room in American Politics for the Don Bacons of the World? | The Ripon Society
Bacon’s success is thanks to strong relationships in his district and his brand as a centrist, opposing his party line just often enough to win over voters ...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/08/2025
it won't happen automatically. but there is very obviously an opportunity for ambitious types who want to quite literally save the American republic to have their names written in history. crowns are in the gutter waiting to be picked up
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Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I’d be really interested in seeing recruitment and retention data for the National Guard over the next couple of years.
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Congress is too old! It's not a mystery why that is! Here is my new report about it!
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The whole confederacy is getting in on it.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 18/08/2025
“American leadership is older today than at any other time in history.” Oscar Pocasangre and @dustinwahl.bsky.social explore the depth of the age divide in a NEW REPORT co-published by @protectdemocracy.org and @newamerica.org protectdemocracy.org/age-divide
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Proportional representation will bring young people into politics - Protect Democracy
In our new report, we argue that the winner-take-all system suppresses participation among young people and limits their opportunities to influence policy.
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
bat signal for @fixourhouse.bsky.social
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
what this makes me think about - with regard to right now - is how so much of the information about Trump and Epstein that’s resonated in recent weeks is old stuff, widely and publicly reported. but a lot of it didn’t break through to lots of ppl in their information environments
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 18/07/2025
With Colton's conviction, that makes FOUR pardoned January 6th insurrectionists who have faced charges for solicitation of a minor or child sex abuse of some kind.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it" 👀 Can we take a moment to appreciate how THAT RIGHT THERE is what, in any other age, would have been a presidency-destroying scandal???
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/07/2025
straightforward Trump appeasement. a bribe from a company wanting regulatory approval variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’
CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night
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Project on Ethics in Political Communication @policommethics.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Earlier today I talked to Andrew Doty and @dustinwahl.bsky.social about the communication ethics of advocating for political reform. A very interesting conversation and a lot of food for thought. Check it out. www.ethicsinpoliticalcommunication.org/video-conver...
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Services 3 — Project on Ethics in Political Communication
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Scoop: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics chief, Joseph Tirrell. Without explanation, she removes DOJ's career ethics office director who advised the most senior political appointees (such as Todd Blanche, Kash Patel) on conflicts. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Bondi Fires Her Personal Ethics Chief as DOJ Purge Continues
Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, removing the Justice Department’s top official responsible for counseling the most senior political appointees, according to two peopl...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
We’re releasing the Epstein Files day one. There are no Epstein Files. Here’s video proof nothing happened. Ok we had to edit it. There are no Epstein Files. There are Epstein Files, but the Democrats made them. Why do you care so much about this Epstein guy? What are “Files”?
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Project on Ethics in Political Communication @policommethics.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The Project on Ethics in Political Communication's occasional conversation series is back - on July 15 we're talking about ethics and political reform with Andrew Doty and @dustinwahl.bsky.social. Details and registration here: www.ethicsinpoliticalcommunication.org/blog/ethical...
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Ethical Communications as a Political Reform Practitioner — Project on Ethics in Political Communication
On July 15th at 1pm ET, join the Project on Ethics in Political Communication for a Zoom conversation about ethical communications as a political reform practitioner with political reform consultant ...
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hard to overstate how much I respect MGP www.compactmag.com/article/mari...
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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s Quiet Radicalism
WelcomeFest, held at DC’s Hamilton Hotel on June 4, was the largest post-2024 election gathering to date of self-described centrist Democrats seeking to revive their party’s fortunes.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Politico @politico.com · 06/06/2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in U.S. custody after being illegally deported and will now face federal human trafficking charges in Tennessee.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in U.S. custody after being illegally deported and will now face criminal charges
The courts ordered the administration to facilitate his return after he was deported to El Salvador in violation of a court order.
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Exciting new project for “technoprogressives” from @ezup.bsky.social technoprogressives.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to the Technoprogressive
A newsletter from the new Technoprogressive Hub
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The process of inoculation in the 1700’s was scraping smallpox pus out of open lesions from infected patients, making an incision in the person being inoculated, and stuffing the infected pus into the incision. Yet even this was preferable to smallpox. Our vaccines are a million times safer.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New from @protectdemocracy.org: Donald Trump is governing by emergency, pushing both national security and the military to dangerous new levels of politicization. This leads to a dark and scary place. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/55-years-a...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NYT Page One: “.. a blitz of moneymaking ventures capitalizing on their father’s name and power, each seemingly trying to outdo the other.” @nytimes.com
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Dustin Wahl @dustinwahl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Lots of talk about America going in the direction of Hungary. Ironically, one of Orbán’s first big steps toward authoritarianism was making Hungary’s election system *more like America’s.* www.chicagotribune.com/2022/08/03/f...
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Farbod Faraji and Lee Drutman: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán can thank the US for facilitating his rise to power
On Thursday, Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is scheduled to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, “the largest and most influential gather…
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
These guys are about to kick millions of people off their health insurance and they don't have the faintest idea of how these programs work, just throwing out numbers in an incoherent jumble. It's like a football coach saying "We've got a 10-yard redzone in our offside flea flicker so we'll be good"
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Fix Our House @fixourhouse.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If you really want to fight for democracy in America, you need to acknowledge that winner-take-all elections are really poor instruments of democracy. @fairvote.bsky.social is out with its Monopoly Politics report, and it's a must read. fairvote.org/report/monop...
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Monopoly Politics 2026: How 81% of 2026 elections have already been decided - FairVote
We project that 81% of House seats will be safe for one party, with another 9% leaning strongly to one party – 18 months before the election.
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