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  • STAR Voting Oregon Chapter Meeting

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    Let’s improve local elections with a voting method that doesn’t split the vote! Join our monthly meeting for STAR Voting and Represent.Us! We will talk about: –Efforts to bring STAR Voting to Portland and Multnomah County –Updates and outreach in Lane County –Outreach ideas for other cities –Statewide reform! –Working on our talking points and…

  • The Role of Big Money In U.S. Elections

    Rhoda Schermer

    Join this informative discussion with a group of campaign finance law experts from the nonpartisan, nonprofit Campaign Legal Center to learn how big money special interest spending—often from secret sources—is affecting our elections and the solutions. Topics will include the evolving and increasingly powerful role of super PACs and other ostensibly “independent” groups that influence…

  • Trust in Elections Conversation

    Becca Kearl

    Trust is a critical component of building and maintaining healthy families, communities, institutions and countries. What happens when it starts to dwindle or is lost entirely? Trust is built over time. It can be challenged by people with different views or backgrounds as well as events that call into question the intent of our institutions…

  • Democracy Happy Hour

    Cindy Black

    Grab a drink and come hear about the latest democracy news, topic of the week, ongoing efforts to fix democracy, and actions you can take at our weekly Democracy Happy Hour, Wednesdays @ 5 pm PT.

  • True False, Hot Cold Screening

    Kamy Akhavan

    Registration COMING SOON.    The USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future invites you to join a screening of True False, Hot Cold on Wednesday, April 24 at 6 p.m. in the Stark Cinema Theatre. This award-winning documentary is centered around climate change, belief, and civil discourse. It was filmed in Utah over the course of one…

  • Levan Book Chat: Righting the American Dream

    Kamy Akhavan

    Levan Institute Book Chat—Diane Winston, Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision   A discussion of Diane Winston’s new book, Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision (University of Chicago Press, 2023). The author will be joined in conversation by Darren Dochuk (University of Notre Dame) and Lerone…