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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
The “Recalibration” saga continues as education advocates fight for adequate public education funding
Better Wyoming volunteers are mobilizing across the state to demand full funding for public schools as the recalibration process unfolds. From crowds packing interim meetings to dozens of letters and op-eds, Wyoming citizens are showing up, speaking out and holding the Legislature accountable to its constitutional duty to support teachers, counselors and safe schools.
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The plot to ‘DOGE’ our state Health Department
Freedom Caucus lawmakers are trying to “DOGE” the Wyoming Department of Health. Better Wyoming volunteers are calling them out in local papers, making sure Wyomingites know who’s behind the cuts and what’s at stake for our communities.
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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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Right-wing spies target Better Wyoming
Political spies with ties to the Wyoming Liberty Group, Project Veritas, and Blackwater founder Erik Prince targeted Better Wyoming as part of a yearlong operation to gather intel and make secret recordings to weaponize against the organization.
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Wyoming lawmakers eye funding options for Medicaid upgrade
The Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee will take up Medicaid expansion this week, with a focus on translating some of the $1.4 billion Wyoming will receive from the American Rescue Plan into sustainable healthcare funding for low-income residents.
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Public health cuts hit communities across Wyoming
The Legislature cut more than $100 million from the Wyoming Department of Health’s budget this session, including tens of millions from mental health and substance abuse programs while the state is experiencing a suicide crisis.
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