Nick Troiano

Well, what we're up against is the two party duopoly that wants to protect actually working with each other on this one.

It was Democrats that spent over 15 million dollars against this in Alaska and Republicans who spent over seven million in Montana to try and fight it.

And they would sort of weaponize the issue and say like, actually these reforms are about the stocking horse for the other party.

Well, they both can't be right when they're saying that.

And so we have work to do to build more early and durable support among voters for these policies.

We don't need to convince anyone that our political system is broken.

What we do need to do is educate voters about

the benefits of these systems and why it is worth a change.

And as you know, the threshold of getting a voter to vote yes on an initiative is much harder than getting them to vote no, because you have to kind of prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt.

And I think that's the task that we've signed up for and we're gonna continue to work on because the status quo is unacceptable and it's leading us in a direction in which we're seeing our politics unravel even further.

There is a lot of activity happening in the movement to reform our politics.

There is litigation happening to open closed primaries in states like Maryland or Pennsylvania.

It's certainly not, in our belief, under many state constitutions that have even more protection for voter rights than maybe the federal constitution.

And so there's work happening on that.

There's work happening in legislatures to at least open the primaries to all voters.

We saw earlier this year, New Mexico, after a multi-year campaign, there was a bipartisan bill that passed to allow unaffiliated voters to start to participate in party primaries starting next year, over 330,000 of them.

And then, of course, there is the ballot initiative pathway.

And there's at least two states where local groups are pursuing the top two all candidate primary initiative.

And that's in both Massachusetts and Oklahoma, two very different states politically.

But what they have in common is that all of their congressional seats are decided in the party primaries.