Elections
Pennsylvania Needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to Ensure Fair Representation
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
Colin Kohlhaas
August 25, 2025
Colin Kohlhaas
News
Here’s Why Pennsylvanians Are Seeing Their Electricity Bills Soar
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania and PennFuture explain the price hike that hit many Pennsylvania consumers at the beginning of June.
Colin Kohlhaas
August 13, 2025
News
Looking for Clean Energy Projects in Pennsylvania? Check Out This New Map by PennEnvironment and Evergreen Action
The map tracks renewable energy projects across the state that utilize federal funds from the Inflation Reduction Act. “Pennsylvanians deserve an affordable, clean energy future, and these funds are making that future a reality,” said Evergreen Action’s Julia Kortrey.
Colin Kohlhaas
May 31, 2025
News
Pennsylvania House Democrats Want to Prohibit Cooperation with Out-of-state Criminal Abortion Investigations
The goal of the proposed legislation is to protect women who receive abortions and the doctors and nurses who provide this reproductive health care.
Colin Kohlhaas
April 18, 2025
News
Democrat-Sponsored Bill in Harrisburg Seeks Transparency at PJM to Ensure Clean Energy Projects Get Fair Shake
Providing public oversight of the regional electric grid operator and utility companies’ decision-making will help ensure lower energy rates for consumers and that Pennsylvania is meeting its clean energy needs.
Colin Kohlhaas
March 25, 2025
News
While Over Half of Republicans Embrace Christian Nationalism, New Survey Shows Most Americans Reject the Ideology
The Public Religion Research Institute released its 2024 American Values Atlas this week and outside of the GOP it’s not all bad news.
Colin Kohlhaas
February 6, 2025
News
State Lawmakers Want to Strengthen Election Integrity in Pennsylvania by Ending Gerrymandering and Ensuring Fair Redistricting
“In a strong and healthy democracy, voters choose our representatives, but today we see too many power hungry politicians draw gerrymandered maps to silence voters,” said Common Cause Pennsylvania’s Philip Hensley-Robin.
Colin Kohlhaas
January 31, 2025
Opinion
Young Men Who Embrace the Online ‘Manosphere’ and Backed Trump Are Part of a Long History of Anti-Feminist Hostility
Shifts in male voting as a result of anti-feminist backlash are not a new phenomenon in the United States, writes historian Colin Kohlhaas.
Colin Kohlhaas
December 31, 2024
Could Pennsylvania’s Budget Impasse End Up in Court?
August 28, 2025
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
OPINION: Trump’s Troop Deployments in Cities Across the US Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote
August 27, 2025
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
‘Victory for Pennsylvania Voters and Our Democracy’: Court Rules State Must Stop Throwing out Mail Ballots Over Date Errors
August 26, 2025
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
5 Takeaways From DC’s Organized Resistance to Trump’s Military Occupation
August 26, 2025
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Pennsylvania Needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to Ensure Fair Representation
August 25, 2025
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
