Fix Our House

"You don’t fix a structural problem with better messaging. You fix a structural problem with a structural solution." (url in replies)

🧵@pkcapitol is a legendary Congress watcher, one of the best to ever do it. Honored for my @BPC_Bipartisan work on Congress's tipping point w/ J.D. Rackey to be cited in his final WaPo column. 🔗⬇️

This is not a sustainable number for a self governing republic such as ours.

The two-party doom loop doing its thing

"partisan politics appear to play a role." You think?

One country on here has a fully sorted two-party system

"Congress can reform itself. . . Lots of small, internal reforms have been enacted, but there is a lot more work to be done." @kevinrkosar nytimes.com/2026/02/27/opi…

What every 2028 presidential candidate needs to read, and then read again. @leedrutman in @voxdotcom vox.com/politics/48028…

If you want to look towards the future, not just the present crisis, this is for you. "Gridlock may look like stability; it is actually brittleness. Eventually, it will crack. In some places, it already has. A new generation will pick up the pieces and build something new."

This is like writing an article called "What to Know About How Other Countries Deal with Thanksgiving Traffic" and somehow not mentioning that only America celebrates Thanksgiving

It’s hard to see the water we’re swimming in, but it’s crucial if we’re ever going to get out of this cold civil war.

This is where the action is headed, folks.

"Things that become unsustainable," Drutman says, "*actually are* unsustainable." If we really think America is in a full-blown crisis, then our problems aren't going away on their own. An opportunity for change is coming.

Fix Our House founder @leedrutman is in the @washingtonpost's Next 50: the people shaping the future of our society. "The times they are a-changin" washingtonpost.com/post-next/inte…

Starting to feel like we are in the midst of a historic hinge moment here.

"Most members of Congress will never face a competitive general election. They know it. They govern accordingly. "But two moderate Democrats who actually win in Trump country wonder if the problem isn’t the people — it’s the system. Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Jared Golden, Blue Dog Dems who won R+5 and R+6 districts, respectively, have introduced a resolution to establish a Select Committee on Electoral Reform. "The committee would study alternatives to the electoral status quo: multimember districts with proportional representation, expanding the House beyond its 1929 cap of 435 seats, and repealing the 1967 federal law that prohibits states from experimenting with proportional systems." notus.org/perspectives/n…

Read more about the proposal here! notus.org/congress/blue-…

.@NOTUSreports asked for under-the-radar ideas that could have a big impact on the country. Our answer: @RepMGP and @RepGolden's Select Committee on Electoral Reform. It's a big step to break us out of the two-party doom loop. notus.org/perspectives/n…

America's electoral rules make us uniquely vulnerable to gerrymandering. But Congress has the power to *change those rules* and adopt proportional representation, giving everyone a voice no matter where they live. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

"Proportional representation isn't just a policy change. It's a chance to revive faith in democracy." @protctdemocracy youtube.com/watch?v=xN5V0a…