Going Deep on Fighting Corruption with Joshua Graham Lynn

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 57 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 pubic 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…).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:06.0	I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering how progress actually happens.
0:11.0	What are the small moves, the incremental steps that will take us to a changed society?
0:17.8	My thought partner is Joshua Graham Lynn.
0:20.5	He's the co-founder and CEO of Represent Us, the leading right left pro-democracy
0:26.4	organization in America. He and his co-founder, a guy named Josh Silver,
0:30.8	created represent us in the wake of the Citizens United case when they
0:35.8	recognized that we needed an organization that wasn't focused on Democrats or
0:40.1	Republicans but was entirely devoted to bridging the ideological divide.
0:46.4	As you can imagine, this was one timely conversation, so join me for a great discussion
0:51.5	with Josh Graham Lynn.
0:53.0	We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
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1:37.0	I'm Kelly Corrigan.
1:40.0	I'm Kelly Corrigan.
1:41.0	Today I'm talking with Joshua Graham Lynn.
1:44.0	About a decade ago in the wake of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision which had to do
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