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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Engaged citizens and a responsive government
Opportunities to build a brighter future
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.
Updates
“INTERIM” SPOTLIGHT: MATERNITY CARE DESERTS
The Legislature’s Joint Labor Health Committee has historically failed to find solutions to Wyoming’s inadequate maternal healthcare. They will try again this year.
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What the *%^# is “recalibration” (and why does it matter for Wyoming’s public schools)?
You’re going to be hearing a lot about this term, “recalibration.” It’s a process that the Legislature has to go through every five years to determine how much funding our public schools need to educate students.
It’s also the process the Freedom Caucus plans to use to defund our schools to complete their plan of tearing down public education.
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Unite to Protect Medicaid in Wyoming
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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DERAILED: The Wyo. Legislature’s 2022 trainwreck budget session (part 1)
The Wyoming Legislature’s 2022 budget session was a prime example of how our state lawmakers ignore the real problems of Wyoming and instead focus on emotional “hot button” national issues.
As home and healthcare prices go up, the struggling fossil fuel industries fail to pay for public schools, and Wyoming can’t keep young people living here to build a future, the Legislature is transfixed on issues they repeat from national media.
This is the kind of representation we get when only 30 percent of Wyoming residents vote in the elections that count: the primaries.
DERAILED: How Wyoming’s Legislature got off track, and how to steer it back (series intro)
The Wyoming Legislature has become more concerned with squabbling over hot-button national issues than addressing the real problems of our state. In a new series, Better Wyoming looks at how this happened, and what we need to do to get back on track.
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Wyoming lawmakers stand by as two more hospitals close their maternity wards
Wyomingites understand that we do not have the cutting-edge medical facilities that big cities offer. But that does not mean we should force small-town women to face stressful and even dangerous situations in order to safely give birth.
Our state can have a hospital system that serves us all. But that means we need legislators who are willing to help support it.
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