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       Using, protecting, and rocking the vote.
       
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    <title>What the Oscars Can Teach Us About Elections That Work</title>        
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    <description>Academy Award-winners are selected by algorithms that allow voters to rank candidates in order of preference, selecting backups if their first choices lose. What if we elected our leaders that way?</description>        
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    <title>This Inauguration Is Brought to You By...</title>        
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    <description>Despite widespread petitions and concerns about money in politics, corporations will provide funding for the inauguration of President Barack Obama.</description>        
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    <description>Community organizers around the country worked overtime to hand the election to President Barack Obama. Now we need him to stand up for our values and vision.</description>        
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    <title>Making It Count: Next Steps for the Minority Majority</title>        
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    <description>Minorities around the country stood strong in the face of efforts to suppress their votes. Now that the election is over, what will happen to that energy and force?</description>        
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    <title>It’s Not All Suppression: What We’re Doing Right at the Polls</title>        
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    <description>In some places around the country, efforts to suppress the vote are being shot down. Read on to hear about the good news this election day, and check back later for updates.</description>        
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    <title>Watch Democracy Now’s Election Coverage Here</title>        
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    <description>Beginning at 7:00 eastern standard time and continuing until 1 a.m., Democracy Now! will cover the election results live. Watch it here at YES!</description>        
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    <title>12 Ways You Can Safeguard Your Vote </title>        
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    <description>Election Day is right around the corner. Here are a dozen tips to make sure your vote is counted.</description>        
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    <description>Larry King moderated the lively discussion between four alternative-party candidates, which focused on issues that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have avoided.</description>        
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    <title>Lawmakers Get Graded on Equality Record</title>        
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    <description>How do your representatives stack up when it comes to voting on policy that helps—or hinders—economic equality? Before you go to the polls, check out the Congressional Report Card for the 99%</description>        
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    <title>Obama Slams Citizens United</title>        
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    <description>Who’s the latest supporter for a constitutional amendment to overturn the controversial Supreme Court decision? Just the President of the United States. No big deal.</description>        
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    <description>Who’s lining the pocket of your representatives? Here’s a tool you can use to find out.</description>        
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