Our Mission

To promote representative democracy by ensuring open, ethical, accountable, effective government processes at local, state and national levels by educating and mobilizing the citizens of Rhode Island.

  • Campaigns & Elections

    Ensuring that voters, not special interests, own their elections process: We support Fair Elections, a voluntary system of public matching funds for campaign financing, and mandatory electronic campaign finance reporting. More>>

  • Ethics

    Ensuring that Rhode Island government is open, honest, and accountable: We support the powers of the RI Ethics Commission to investigate ethics complaints and prohibitions on nepotism, conflicts of interest, and gifts to public officials.More>>

  • Freedom of Information

    Ensuring that the public has timely and protected access to official documents: We support a “balancing test” for the Access to Public Records Act, mandatory training for custodians of public records, and shorter release time for public records. More>>

  • Judicial Reform

    Ensuring that judicial officials are selected in a fair manner: We support maintaining the independent merit selection process for the selection of judges, as established by voters, and extending it to cover the selection of magistrates.More>>

  • Separation of Powers

    Ensuring that each of the three branches of state government stays within its constitutional boundaries: We support the Separation of Powers amendment, which was supported by 78% of the voters, and the protection of Separation of Powers.More>>
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