The Nation has an extended post outlining what a "pro-democracy movement" looks like, featuring a discussion of Clean Elections, the recent activity at both the state and federal level in this regard, and how the various elements of campaign finance and electoral change can combine into a more empowered electorate.

Public Campaign President and CEO Nick Nyhart appeared on Your World with Neil Cavuto yesterday afternoon to talk about the Norman Hsu controversy--and the alternative to this kind of "raise money first, ask questions later" political process.

Happy New Year! This new year, with its new Congress brings a fresh opportunity for our representatives in Washington to listen to voters and pass full public financing of elections to make the scandals that marked 2006 a thing of the past. Our President and CEO Nick Nyhart writes in The Patriot News about the challenges ahead, and the growing support for public financing in Congress.

Our own Nick Nyhart, executive director of Public Campaign, and Chellie Pingree, president and chief executive officer of Common Cause, write in today's Oregonian about how the first elections under the City of Portland's Voter Owned Elections system were a great success--and how they give hope for national reform.

Our own executive director, Nick Nyhart, has an op-ed in Sunday's New London Day, a Connecticut newspaper, on the need to strengthen that state's public financing of elections law. Read it here (free registration required). Then read more about our Connecticut campaign and how you can get involved.