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Behind Open Doors


We want to know what our government is up to.If officials do bad things or just extremely clumsy money-wasting things, we need to know. Then we can try to do something about it. It’s called oversight.Oversight requires transparency. If officials hide their activities it gets difficult to learn what they’re up to. I don’t say we should be told secrets the public unveiling of which would compromise our national security. But almost everything else is fair game. [Read More]

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Our 2007 Sammie Awards were a huge success. Check out our winners, and stay tuned for how you can enter the upcoming 2008 Sammies!  [Read More]

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Rage Against the Voting Machine 

A brief history of electronic voting with Diebold
March 24, 2008


By Anastasia Ealey 

Voting can be a delicate, controversial matter. So the fact that Diebold electronic voting machines have attempted to bring relative ease to the process should be a welcome change, right? Not so fast. Unfortunately, these attempts have, in many cases, proven to be disastrous.

Eyman Takes the Initiative 

March 17, 2008


By John P. Krudy 

It’s not often that an activist group uses a government report to take on the government. But that’s exactly what Tim Eyman is doing right now.

Making the Government Fear the People 

March 10, 2008


By Brandon Holmes

Thomas Jefferson once said, "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Chris Kliesmet and Orville (Orv) Seymer of the Citizens for Responsible Government (CRG) Network are busy helping Wisconsinites achieve the latter in their state. Chris describes their “action tank” efforts as “getting involved in helping citizens engage their government.”

Action is certainly something they haven't been short on

Campton Hills: A Struggle for Limited Government 

March 3, 2008


By Drew Veeneman 

Last April, the area now known as Campton Hills, Illinois voted to incorporate as a village with the goals of preservation and “no new taxes”—now, however, concerned citizens fear the village itself may be the principal threat to both.