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2 months ago | 
myheraldreview.com | Nick Troiano
The year was 1989, and the nominee was John Tower – a four-term senator from Texas and former chair of the Armed Services Committee picked by President George H. W. Bush.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
usnews.com | Meredith Sumpter |Pat McCrory |Nick Troiano
Tomorrow, Americans who haven’t already done so will cast ballots in what has been a highly contentious presidential election, one that seems to reinforce we are a nation starkly divided and stuck in partisan gridlock. Nearly 3 in 4 Americans say that the U.S. is no longer a good example of a democracy, according to the Pew Research Center, while a whopping 85% of people across all demographic groups say they don’t believe elected officials care what people like them think.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
usnews.com | Pamela Shifman |Nick Troiano |Albert Hunt
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign raised a record-setting $1 billion in the third quarter of this year – but it’s not just donations to the presidential candidate that will decide the future of our democracy after Nov. 5. Our network of major progressive donors at the Democracy Alliance is working day and night to ensure that Harris defeats the dangerous former president, Donald Trump, and we’re not just on the ground in swing states.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Nick Troiano
With a historic number of open all-candidate primary initiatives on the ballot, 2024 is poised to be remembered as the year voters demanded a better way to conduct elections. This type of electoral innovation is exactly what the founders intended. Most people agree that immigration, the national debt, and education are urgent problems, yet year after year these issues go unaddressed.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Josh Kraushaar |Nick Troiano
REVIEW: ‘The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes’ by Nick Troiano By: Josh KraushaarOf all the maladies that afflict present-day politics, the increasingly irresponsible role that partisans have played is surely at the top of the list. Partisanship, in reasonable doses, was once a healthy part of our body politic.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
highlandcountypress.com | Nick Troiano
By Nick TroianoReal Clear WireThe 2024 presidential election has been a slow-motion trainwreck that we’ve seen coming for more than a year. A 2023 Economist/YouGov poll found that 59% of voters did not want President Biden to run for reelection, and 56% of voters said the same of former President Trump – yet here we are again, with both battling it out on the debate stage. One might think this leaves significant room for a third-party contender.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
fairfieldsuntimes.com | Nick Troiano
The 2024 presidential election has been a slow-motion trainwreck that we’ve seen coming for more than a year. A 2023Economist/YouGov pollfound that 59% of voters did not want President Biden to run for reelection, and 56% of voters said the same of former President Trump – yet here we are again, with both battling it out on the debate stage. One might think this leaves significant room for a third-party contender.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Nick Troiano
Troiano is the executive director ofUnite America, a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government. He’s also the author of “The Primary Solution.”Last month, Americans were treated to an embarrassing spectacle: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) tradingpersonal insults related to “fake eyelashes” and a “bleach blonde bad built butch body” during a late-night committee hearing.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
gjsentinel.com | Nick Troiano
As the most polarized state Legislature in the country, gridlock in the Colorado capitol tends to be the norm. Yet in the twilight hours of the 2024 legislative session, an amendment to an elections bill was “introduced, explained and passed within a minute.” What could have possibly sailed through the Colorado Legislature with such ease? Sadly, the answer may not shock you: The amendment was the latest brazen maneuver by politicians to thwart the will of the voters.
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May 20, 2024 | 
sightline.org | Nick Troiano
Republican state senate president Cathy Giessel was not a supporter of Ballot Measure 2 in 2020. “I was totally against it. I spoke to community groups about how this would be awful,” she told me when we met for coffee in Anchorage. “I was worried that conservative voices would be drowned out.”At the same time, Giessel regularly worked across the aisle to make progress on issues important to Alaska. She was a strong fiscal conservative.
