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The Grassroots Institute
2025 Wyo. Legislature Grassroots Accountability Campaign
Check out Better Wyoming’s 2025 Grassroots Accountability Reports, which track how your own local lawmakers voted during the legislative session on important issues like healthcare, education, and taxes to find out.
Learn whether their votes represent your values on issues that impact us all.
What We’re Up To
Albany County Stands Up Against Wyoming’s Book Ban Bill
Better Wyoming showed up recently at the Revenue Committee’s meeting to tell legislators – and the Wyoming public – just how bad things would be for hardworking Wyomingites if these irresponsible cuts go through.
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History of Better Wyoming
Youth mental health issues are on the rise, but the Legislature does not allocate money to fully staff schools with counselors. A judge has ruled that the state must fund mental health professionals for schools, but the Freedom Caucus is looking for ways to defund public education instead.
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Better Wyoming Fights Irresponsible Tax Cuts
Better Wyoming showed up recently at the Revenue Committee’s meeting to tell legislators – and the Wyoming public – just how bad things would be for hardworking Wyomingites if these irresponsible cuts go through.
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House members evoke a sense of danger to argue against UW making its own decisions about guns on campus
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Anti-LGBT bill HB-135 was not an innocent “religious freedom” act
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House panel chooses to keep Wyoming’s working poor in poverty
The Wyoming State Legislature’s House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee could have voted to raise the state’s minimum wage to $9.50 an hour Friday, as proposed by Rep. James Byrd (D-Cheyenne). Its members didn’t. The panel could have also raised the state’s tipped wage to $5.50 an hour, Byrd’s […]
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