"Proportional representation would make gerrymandering irrelevant. But it would do a lot more than that. Most importantly, proportional representation would make it far easier for small parties to win representation in the House." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

#ProportionalRepresentation would, quite literally, save lives.

"Proportional representation offers more stable, representative government than these winner-take-all methods..." #ProportionalRepresentation #ProRep #EndTheDuopoly #EndPolarization www.sightline.org/2025/09/23/f...

It's true. With our current system, everybody gets divided into two camps that loathe each other and fight for majority power to steamroll the other. In a multi-party system, we'd better respect each other's unique perspectives and come up with compromise solutions.

Want climate action? Racial justice? Housing reform? Then we need a legislature that actually reflects who lives here. #ProportionalRepresentation isn’t a side issue—it’s *the* issue that unlocks true progress on *all* issues.

Minorities still deserve to have a say. #ProportionalRepresentation #ProRep #EndTheDuopoly

"I think we need big structural reform. And I think the very best way to fix the US House and state legislatures would be through some form of #ProportionalRepresentation.’” That's @davedaley.bsky.social at about 1:06:34. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

As you know, the GOP plans to gerrymander Texas to squeeze out 5 more seats and Dems will do the same to California. But did you know that gerrymandering works by gaming the disproportionality of our winner-take-all system? #ProRep is the obvious fix. www.slowboring.com/p/proportion...

#ProportionalRepresentation is simply a better way for people to get the policies that *actually* help them.

It's really the most important direction for both parties. With the rise of the populist wing, the Republican coalition is also breaking up.

“The fight for equality cannot stop at the ballot box, nor can it end at the workplace. It requires systemic reforms — including... #ProportionalRepresentation... — to ensure women can run, win, serve and lead.” msmagazine.com/2025/08/29/w...

Yes, we *can* do better. #ProportionalRepresentation

The top 10 countries in the 2025 Global Social Progress Index all use proportional representation. When every vote counts, societies thrive.

Our political system was state-of-the-art at the time, but it's high time we get a system update to #ProportionalRepresentation.

Welcome to the coalition, @fairvote.bsky.social! We're thrilled to be working with one of the oldest and largest electoral reform advocacy organizations in the US. Their work has paved the road that ProRep is traveling, and we look forward to working together towards state-level PR in CA!

"I think [the gerrymandering war] is really going to require a big national conversation about... what representation means in a democracy.... I think the very best model would be a more proportional House...” In other words, #ProportionalRepresentation! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

"Congress can’t get anything done. Not even stuff 70% to 80% of Americans support. We’ve seen politicians torpedo a good idea rather than risk the other side receiving credit for it." How to fix this? "Proportional representation may be the way forward." www.bakersfield.com/opinion/comm...

On the need to bring the message of proportional representation to the masses disillusioned with the 2 party system

"In most U.S. elections, one candidate wins everything... [which] invites parties in power to manipulate district lines to guarantee control.... There’s a better way... used by many of the world’s strongest democracies: #ProportionalRepresentation." dcjournal.com/how-proporti...

@mattyglesias.bsky.social is right on the money here. #ProportionalRepresentation IS the best solution to gerrymandering. www.slowboring.com/p/proportion... #ProRep #EndGerrymandering

Our latest newsletter dropped today -- check it out! prorepcoalition.org/so/7bPY6Pmta...

“Republican House candidates in 2024 won 48% of the House votes in Illinois. Democrats won 52. The Republicans only hold three seats. If it were #ProportionalRepresentation, the Republicans would have something like maybe eight to nine… But it's gerrymandered...” www.wsj.com/podcasts/opi...

proportional representation. Let's do it.

"If we had a more proportional system, a more proportional House, larger multi-member districts... you could really try to wipe gerrymandering off the board.’” velshi.simplecast.com/episodes/the... (about 35 minutes in)

Yes! We see #ProportionalRepresentation as the best way to address gerrymandering by far. The game of maximizing narrow wins and minimizing blowouts doesn't work well under PR, where narrow wins result in *fewer seats* than blowout wins. District lines matter much less! bsky.app/profile/adam...

ICYMI: With Congress increasingly polarized, there are calls to replace the winner-take-all approach for House elections with a "proportional representation" system. Advocates say it could eliminate gerrymandering's threat and ensure fair representation of voters of color

Checks and balances between branches don't work well in a two-party system where one party is guaranteed to have control of most of the branches. A multi-party system via #ProportionalRepresentation does a much better job of decentralizing power as the Founders really intended.

Yes, #ProportionalRepresentation is the way.

Democracy isn’t just about voting. It’s about representation. If your vote doesn’t help shape the legislature, it’s just decoration. #ProportionalRepresentation makes your vote count for real. #ProRep #EndTheDuopoly #FairSeats #MultipartyAmerica

"Well, #ProportionalRepresentation is the most common system of voting, and it basically... means that parties get shares of seats in proportion to what percent of the vote they get. So if a party gets 30 percent of the vote, it gets 30 percent of the seats..." www.vox.com/today-explai...

If you want your vote to have a real say, what you want is #ProportionalRepresentation.

According to the latest PPIC statewide survey, 74% of all California adults believe more parties are needed. Mayes ya think… maybe we need ProRep in CA… www.ppic.org/publication/...

We agree. The two-party system really needs to die before it kills us all. #ProportionalRepresentation #ProRep #EndTheDuopoly #EndPolarization

Yes, we do, and #ProportionalRepresentation is the way forward away from the two-party deathtrap (or two-party doom loop, as @leedrutman.bsky.social calls it).

#ProportionalRepresentation decentralizes power so that everybody has a say. Authoritarians prefer centralizing power and thus predictably oppose it.

#ProportionalRepresentation is fair. Yes, some groups that many might consider extreme, fringe, or crazy would get representation that they might not have now. BUT! The only policies that pass will be ones that have broad support, and that's in stark contrast to what we have right now.

If 40% of voters support a party, that party should get 40% of seats. That’s not radical. That’s math. And it’s how #ProportionalRepresentation works.

Yes, finishing 1st in an election is too high a bar for smaller parties. We need to move away from winner-take-all elections so that 2nd, 3rd, 4th-place finishes also win seats. Then we'd *all* get fair representation. #ProportionalRepresentation #ProRep #EndTheDuopoly

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It's very true that we need #ProportionalRepresentation now. We're doing our best to make it happen now, but realistically, it may take a while.

Based on the "If California [or Any US State] Had 6 Political Parties" quiz (available from link below), I'd be a member of and/or vote Green New Deal Party. Wish it existed! How about you?

Hey I helped @prorepcoalition.bsky.social put together this quiz, to illustrate what kinds of political parties we might have in #California if we used #ProportionalRepresentation. It's meant to be a fun thought experiment, not academic. But I think these are plausible parties!

Very cool. www.prorepcoalition.org/multiparty-q...

Take our new quiz! If California had six parties, which would you belong to? www.prorepcoalition.org/multiparty-q...

#ProportionalRepresentation gives minorities a fair voice. Not just ethnic and religious minorities, but ideological minorities, such as conservatives in blue states and liberals in red states. (plus it also fixes gerrymandering) #ProRep #FairSeats #MultipartyAmerica #EndGerrymandering

Winning a large *minority* of the votes shouldn't be rewarded with a *majority* of the power. #ProportionalRepresentation is fair representation. #ProRep #FairSeats

Voting in California shouldn’t feel like yelling into a canyon. With #ProportionalRepresentation, your vote echoes back as power.