Want a better Congress? Change the incentives. Term limits, stock trading bans, and a balanced budget amendment would shift focus from re-election to real results.
Most people agree no one should spend 30 years in Congress. William Upham is running for Florida's 5th Congressional District on exactly that idea — serve, then step aside. Thank you William for signing the U.S. Term Limits pledge.
"This February, a bipartisan bill was introduced in the Wyoming Legislature that would have led to the state electing representatives to its lower chamber via #ProportionalRepresentation (PR)."
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So many people will be forced to vote in November in an election in which only one party really has a chance at winning. This can be solved with Proportional Representation
I look forward to a future America when we have proportional representation and wonder what was so special about single-member districts that we kept them around even as they failed at their only purpose: enabling voters to choice their representatives.
"Multi-member districts based on ranked choice voting can help voters get the fair districting & fair representation they deserve in Washington."
– @Cornell's David B. Shmoys in @sfchronicle on ending gerrymandering w/ proportional representation https://t.co/GycS61SDsT
"This week, Eveline sits down with Colin Cole and Heather Villanueva of @EquitableDemo.... They have spent years building the case and the coalitions for proportional representation at the local level."
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Ranked choice voting will be used in primaries this month in Maine & DC.
In other states, crowded primaries or primary runoffs will deliver unrepresentative results – problems that would be solved w/ RCV.
Learn more about RCV & June primaries ⬇️
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When reelection is the priority, fundraising replaces governing. Every time.
Term limits change what politicians are incentivized to do. That changes everything.
Term limit Congress.
"A system employing #ProportionalRepresentation could halt gerrymandering — and the damage it does to representative democracy — in its tracks."
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If you aren’t getting the results you expect, you don't double down on the same old strategy. You bring in fresh minds to look at the problem differently.
Washington doesn't need the same system and politicians that haven't improved results in decades.
Term limit Congress. Fix the system.
#FixTheSystem #TermLimits #FreshPerspectives #GoodGovernance #CommonSense
In this podcast:
-The show reveals how recent GOP primary winners are candidates who also signed the term limits pledge.
-Anthony Scaramucci appears in a featured clip comparing Congress to a terrible restaurant that never closes despite terrible public approval ratings.
-The episode highlights growing pressure on Congress as 14 states now officially support an Article V convention focused on congressional term limits, with Arizona and Kansas joining in 2026.
-Former New Mexico State Senator Saih Correa Hemphill joins the show to argue that congressional term limits restore trust, create accountability, and open opportunities for new leadership across party lines.
-USTL President Philip Blumel warns listeners about a San Diego ballot measure that would weaken existing county term limits by extending them from eight years to twelve, accusing local politicians of trying to protect their own power.
When an institution is this fundamentally broken, it doesn't just stall it plunges. We shouldn’t have to watch public trust hit absolute zero before the system changes.
The problem isn't the American voter. The problem is a rigged structure that completely insulates career politicians from their own bad performance reviews. When incumbents are at a 95% re-election rate regardless of how poorly the institution performs, accountability disappears.
Fix the system. Sign the petition to establish congressional term limits today: https://t.co/GgndhRef82
"In a single member district..., 51 percent of voters can elect one candidate and the other 49 percent get nothing. ...[In] one broader district that elects four winners... 25 percent... can elect one of the candidates."
#ProportionalRepresentation
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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 @protctdemocracy in 2022, signed by 200 political scientists and historians.
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