Going Deep on Fighting Corruption with Joshua Graham Lynn

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Though we dream of big overhauls, national change often comes after many states and cities sprinkled across the country come to the same conclusion about what’s best. I loved talking to Josh Graham Lynn, who co-founded the bi-partisan organization Represent.us to fight corruption and fix America. In the decade they’ve been up and running, their work has focused on matching public support for a given law and the passage of said law. Here’s Jennifer Lawrence explaining why government doesn’t represent us and what to do about it (e.g. ranked choice voting…). (Previously aired)To receive a short set of our weekly takeaways in your email, sign up here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering how progress
0:09.2	actually happens. What are the small moves, the incremental steps that will take us to a changed
0:16.2	society? My thought partner is Joshua Graham Lynn. He's the co-founder and CEO of a Represent Us, the leading right-left pro-democracy
0:26.3	organization in America.
0:28.4	He and his co-founder, a guy named Josh Silver, created Represent Us in the wake of the
0:33.5	Citizens United case, when they recognized that we needed an organization that wasn't focused
0:39.0	on Democrats or Republicans, but was entirely devoted to bridging the ideological divide.
0:46.3	As you can imagine, this was one timely conversation.
0:49.3	So join me for a great discussion with Josh Graham Lynn.
0:53.4	We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:05.4	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:07.6	Today, I'm Kelly Corrigan.
1:08.5	Today, I'm talking with Joshua Graham Lynn.
1:11.5	About a decade ago in the wake of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which had to do with campaign finance laws and free speech, Joshua Graham Lynn and a guy named Josh Silver co-founded, represent us.
1:24.5	They were focused on things that matter to every American, like voting rights,
1:29.6	gerrymandering, election integrity, and campaign finance. The goal was working city by city,
1:36.8	state by state, to fix our political system. Represent Us works with people like Jennifer
1:42.8	Lawrence and Ed Helms, Omar Epps, and Katie Perry to bring attention to the ways we could change the system to get better outcomes that are more representative of us, the people.
1:56.2	Here's my conversation with ChangeMaker, Uniter, and new friend Josh Graham Lynn.
2:06.1	So I want to start at the beginning. I want to start with like the dream of America.
2:11.9	Why did we think that we would be able to create a system of government that wouldn't be totally polluted by corruption eventually?
2:22.9	I love the question of what does a dream for America look like.
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