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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
Wyoming Says NO to Book Bans
Hundreds of people flooded lawmakers with emails and gave public testimony in resistance to a bill that aims to ban books and penalize libraries. The fight isn’t over, but together we’ve shown the legislature that Wyoming won’t accept censorship.
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Better Wyoming Leads the Charge for our Public Lands
For the first time in half a century the Wyoming Legislature, under Freedom Caucus leadership, failed their constitutional duty to pass a state budget. These are just some of the programs and agencies that will go unfunded as a result.
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Education advocates organize to fight for public schools at the Legislature’s “recalibration” kickoff
Better Wyoming volunteers, public educators and advocates packed the Legislature’s first ‘recalibration’ meeting on June 17th to testify in front of the committee and tell them to use the process to fully fund public education.
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Enter stage left: House representatives turn to dramatics to call for a Balanced Budget Amendment
[one_third last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””][fusion_text]January 20, 2017 The Wyoming State Legislature seems completely unable to deal with the state’s budget problems, but boy are some of its members excited to try to meddle […]
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Energy bills keep Wyoming blundering down the path of economic schizophrenia and ecological destruction
[two_fifth last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””][fusion_text]January 19, 2017 It’s a coal industry executive’s wet dream: At the same time some state lawmakers want to tax the wind energy industry out of existence, there’s also […]
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Wyoming lawmakers look to pass a new tax by claiming it’s not a new tax
[one_third last=”no” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ class=”” id=””][fusion_text]January 16, 2017 Wyoming lawmakers run away from new taxes like stampeding buffalo, out of fear of voter retribution. But supporters of a bill that would require state sales […]
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