On Nov. 3, Missourians will get the chance to protect the purest form of self-government: direct democracy.

At the national level, petitioning Congress peaked in the 19th century but has declined since then. In the 19th century disenfranchised citizens, including women before suffrage, free blacks, and ...

A historic vote that legalized abortion rights. The expansion of legal marijuana and sports betting. Increases to the state’s minimum wage and limits on tax increases. For more than a century, voters ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

Since 1906, Montana has been able to make laws two ways — through our elected representatives and through direct democracy (or the peoples’ vote — ballot issues). Initially, ballot issues were ...