Steven Hill

Great piece from @PostOpinions calling for full funding of DC’s Initiative 83: “#RankedChoiceVoting is much fairer… than letting anyone who can win a narrow plurality of the vote hold office. It’s also popular in places where it has been implemented.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

"Democrats are their own worst enemy" Dems criticize Trump as anti-democracy, but Dems often oppose political reforms that would both empower voters AND help Democrats. Dumb! Dems don't walk their talk on being pro-democracy democracysos.substack.com/p/democrats-ar…

Another nail in Democracy’s coffin: “crafted talk” and “simulated responsiveness,” used to fool We the People. Digital and AI communication technologies are sinisterly suited for manipulating voters. #DemocracySOS democracysos.substack.com/p/another-nail…

There is a movement in the City of San Diego that is working to bring proportional ranked choice voting to elect San Diego city council. 9 members are elected from single member district & the other 6 are elected from a citywide district through STV. Under this system, residents…

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill used hidden cuts, legislative tricks, to hide who really benefited. thefulcrum.us/governance-leg… Tax cuts (mostly for the rich) will kick in BEFORE Nov 2026 midterms. Cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, student loans, clean energy programs kick in AFTER…

In NYC’s primaries, candidates took a more collaborative approach to campaigning than we typically see in elections. Former NYC mayoral candidate @BradLander told @AnandWrites that was thanks to #RankedChoiceVoting, and the response from voters “was really quite extraordinary.”

Wow. The DC Council just voted 8-4 to implement Ranked Choice Voting in DC elections as proposed by Initiative 83.

Thank you Joseph for remembering Patricia. She passed away at 98 yo, and so fitting that she passed on July 4 since Patricia was an American original. As a woman, she started in the 1940s blazing her own path in a "man's world", pursuing her life and career from Indiana to New…

Patricia Hetter Kelso was the current leading theoretical figure on worker equity shares & citizen ownership stakes when she died last week and a signal female economic intellectual of the last century. Irreplaceable! .@ESOPAssociation .@EmployeeOwnedUS .@theNCEO .@AspenEOP

BREAKING NEWS: Let’s honor Patricia Kelso who passed July 4th— a leading thought leader/author on ESOPs and employee share ownership. Here is the video of her Rutgers Institute for the Study of #EmployeeOwnership talk . .⁦⁦⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ youtu.be/M1BrXUF6yJQ

"Democracy done right in NYC mayor’s race using RCV" democracysos.substack.com/p/democracy-do… #RankedChoiceVoting freed up New Yorkers to pick the candidates they really like. It allowed an upstart candidate to build coalitions and prevail. An exit poll shows all demographics liked and understood…

152 yrs ago this month: "United States vs. Susan B. Anthony" When Taliban America arrested and tried women for voting. In June 1873, one courageous women took on the patriarchy and won--with lessons for today as we see US democracy eroding before our eyes democracysos.substack.com/p/when-taliban…

As New Yorkers head to the polls today for the #nyprimary to cast ballots for candidates like @andrewcuomo and @ZohranKMamdani in the high profile #NYCMayoral race, one in five New Yorkers won’t be able to vote at all. Why? Because they’re registered as independent voters, and…

Historically, America’s soft power has been its greatest asset, fostering global admiration and cooperation. That’s what made the United States the “indispensable nation.” But, now, that’s apparently being replaced by a Trump World posture of “Me First” that is turning allies…

"Trump’s Erosion of America’s “Soft Power” Will Have Economic Impacts" Loss of soft power = decreased exports, reduced foreign investment, diminished tourism,fewer international students & more My latest on @fulcrum_us @DavidLNevins @HugoBalta @bel_montt thefulcrum.us/business-democ…

Now on #DemocracySOS: Political scientist Thor Hogan's provocative plan for how to fix the disenfranchisement of America’s urban majority: partition the largest states to restore majority rule to the Senate and Electoral College democracysos.substack.com/p/americas-urb…

"Reformers' dilemma: which Pro Rep method for US democracy?" As electoral reformers plot out “next steps,” the devil is in the details. #DemocracySOS offers some thoughts about which electoral system would allow for a robust & representative democracy democracysos.substack.com/p/reformers-di…

"The coming political realignment of the Democrats and Republicans" Who are the real advocates for the working- and middle-classes? Is it a new generation of populist GOP leaders? Or the Democratic Party? Now on #DemocracySOS democracysos.substack.com/p/the-coming-p…

The Green Party has supported elections by proportional representation & ranked-choice voting since our founding in 1984 Here is a practical/pragmatic approach from @StevenHill1776 - tactical & strategic - to achieve these needed reforms for a more fully representative…