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Hardworking Wyomingites are tired of politicians hell-bent on creating conflict.

We want solutions to our state’s real problems and opportunities to build a future for our families and communities — That’s why we’re working to educate, organize, and mobilize folks on behalf of statewide change.

It’s up to us to build a better Wyoming.

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2025 Wyo. Legislature Grassroots Accountability Campaign

Help Better Wyoming educate your local community and hold lawmakers accountable during the 2025 legislative session. Our semi-weekly Accountability Reports will contain votes, quotes, and notes about how your local legislators approach our state’s most pressing issues. But we need folks like YOU to help share the information with your networks and neighbors so your local community can decide if your lawmakers’ actions align with their values.

Updates

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Statewide Accountability Report #2: Jan. 27 – Feb. 7

February 3, 2025

In the second two weeks of the 2025 legislative session, the Freedom Caucus kept pounding away at its highest priorities in the House, including abortion restrictions, voter restrictions, and multiple bills to tear down public education.

Both chambers advanced even more property tax cut proposals, and in the Senate a resolution advanced in support of Wyoming seizing and selling federal public lands.

The House and Senate each worked on their own versions of the supplemental budget, but debates were still raging at our deadline. We will focus on the budget in Report 3.

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Statewide Accountability Report #1: Jan. 14 – 24

January 27, 2025

In the first two weeks of the Wyoming Legislature’s 2025 session, the House prioritized Freedom Caucus bills over the normal functions of government, advancing do-nothing policies on hot-button social issues instead of addressing actual problems that impact our lives and communities.

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Three ways YOU can get involved for the 2025 legislative session

December 19, 2024

The 2025 legislative session is just around the corner. Here are three concrete things you can do to get involved with Better Wyoming for the session.

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Reporting and Commentary

Right-to-life advocates pack a House hearing on proposed abortion laws, as a committee passes three on to the floor

February 2, 2017

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House members evoke a sense of danger to argue against UW making its own decisions about guns on campus

January 31, 2017

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Anti-LGBT bill HB-135 was not an innocent “religious freedom” act

January 30, 2017

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