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TCAN, as a member of Clean Elections Texas, a collaborative effort of several statewide and national organizations, is launching an effort to bring the issue of Publicly Financed Elections before the Texas State Democratic Party Convention by initiating the presentation of Clean Election resolutions at the precinct convention level statewide in the upcoming March […]

USA Today’s editorial touts clean elections citing pretty much the same reasons we do. The key point from their editorial:
Clean election systems cost from $2 to $6 per year for each voting-age resident, a bargain for trimming costly special-interest influence. In North Carolina, for example, the clean-election option has virtually ended an outrageous […]

Join with other Texans interested in Clean Elections. Meet-up groups help people get involved and plan local activities to meet the goal of publicly financed campaigns. If you want to change the way democracy is controlled by “Big Money” private interests and special interests, then sign up for one of these meet-up groups. […]

We love this new web-doc we found on Quantum Shift TV, and we think you will too. In just under nine minutes, renowned author Frances Moore Lappé examines campaign finance reform through the eyes of Deborah Simpson, a smart, civic-minded former waitress and single mother who ran for a seat in Maine’s legislature under […]

Imagine a Texas that surprises the nation by becoming a leader in electoral reform. Where activists (who have witnessed first-hand what happens when special interests control state government) have stepped up and created opportunities for average Texans to run for office and WIN. Where enthusiasts have restored democracy by talking about Clean Elections at […]

The ‘pay to play’ game where you and your dollars decide which Presidential candidates stay on the island, um, errr, ballot, and who gets kicked off!

Here’s how it works.

Cultivate the feeling of a powerful mega-donor by deciding which presidential candidates you would like to ‘take out’ of the running.

Then, kinda like mega-donors do […]

Our good friends at Public Campaign, the national umbrella group that promotes public financing of campaigns in every state, have made this excellent video available through YouTube. Now you can watch it right here. Narrated by Bill Moyers and featuring testimonials from both Republicans and Democrats who’ve run under the system, it makes a […]

Would it surprise you to hear that there’s a single legislative reform that will set us on course to solve our health care, school funding, energy, and environmental problems?
If so, you haven’t heard about Clean Elections.
Clean Elections, an opt-in system of publicly funded campaigns, is a way for average citizens to run for […]

We recently met with CE enthusiasts from Dallas who have spoken with a number of CE advocates across the country. Along with the contacts TCAN has made, we should soon have a pretty good idea of what has worked and what hasn’t worked.
We’ll be working with this group and others as we build our […]

Watch the Senate debate here.
This will be a great place to learn the sound bites we can expect in Texas as our own Clean Elections campaign gets traction.
Clean Elections is a way to run without having to court corporate interests. Candidates qualify by getting a reasonable number of small donations. Once qualified, they get […]