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Maine Democrats Called Out
May 31, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
“Those in glass houses should not throw stones.” That old saying is a warning against hypocrisy, something certain Mane Democrats should consider after forcing their state into the National Popular V…
Read More →Confucius Institutes: A case study in CCP influence operations
May 29, 2024 by Trent England in Foreign Threats
In 2019, law enforcement reported that “the Chinese government [poses] a particular threat to U.S. academia” and “does not play by the same rules of academic integrity that U.S. educational instituti…
Read More →Parnell in The Center Square
May 29, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
Our own Sean Parnell recently had a column warning of the threat of John Koza’s National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) in The Center Square, a new and rapidly growing provider of statehouse n…
Read More →Tara Ross and Michael Maibach explain the Electoral College
May 28, 2024 by Harry Roth in Electoral College
Save Our States distinguished fellow Michael Maibach and author Tara Ross joined the Independent Women's Network to discuss the Electoral College. With the 2024 presidential election less than six mo…
Read More →Unfinished Recounts and litigation could thwart the compact
May 10, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
One thing is clear from my years defending the Electoral College: the people at NPV, Inc. don’t understand the presidential election process or how the compact is supposed to work. For example, in a …
Read More →NPV compact losing electoral votes?
May 9, 2024 by Trent England in Electoral College
Yes, the NPV compact has lost electoral votes twice despite no state (yet) repealing it. How is that possible? The answer reveals one more way the compact is unstable—and poorly drafted. Every ten ye…
Read More →Bipartisan Election Reform: Hold local, state and federal elections together
May 7, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Elections
I’m happy that Save Our States is expanding to address other areas of election policy. As someone who’s worked for more than a decade and a half in this area, to paraphrase George Costanza’s father, …
Read More →Can states defend the nation?
April 30, 2024 by Trent England in Foreign Threats
National defense is the ultimate national issue. Yet just as the national government is obliged to defend the states (see Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution), the states also play key roles i…
Read More →“State Armor” helping states stand up to the Chinese Communist Party
April 30, 2024 by Trent England in Foreign Threats
A group that launched earlier this year is already active in the states, crafting policies that will protect Americans from the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign threats. Michael Lucci create…
Read More →One person… how many votes? (Part 3)
April 18, 2024 by Sean Parnell in Electoral College
In previous posts, I explained how the National Popular Vote interstate compact (NPV) falls well short of the “one person, one vote” standard it claims to embody. The first shows how an election syst…
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