Our democratic republic is in grave peril. The national debt, well more than $37 trillion, is now growing by one trillion in debt every five months, according the Peterson Foundation. A 2023 Pew Research Center poll, shows that 87 percent of U.S. adults favor term limits. And as many as 62 percent supports limits on presidential power, according to a September Reuters-Ipsos Poll. To compound matters further, the federal government is now in its 22nd shutdown since 1976.

It is past time for us to admit what many of us suspect: Washington is broken.

Democracy 21’s Fred Wertheimer, whom NPR praised as “one of the progressive movement’s leading strategists on ethics and campaign finance laws since the 1980s,” took the time out of his political advocacy work to attack the convention of states

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