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We believe everyday Wyomingites should have a say in the decisions that shape our lives.

Through civic education, leadership development and taking collective actions, we coach folks on how to speak up, get involved, and work together to improve our communities.

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

How We Build a Better Wyoming

68th Legislative Session

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Leadership Development

2025 Wyo. Legislature Grassroots Accountability Campaign

How well do your local Wyoming state legislators represent you? How do you know? 

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

Somone holds up a Public Lands = Wyoming Heritage sign at a rally in Cheyenne

Better Wyoming Leads the Charge for our Public Lands

July 23, 2025

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

July 11, 2025

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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What the *%^# is “recalibration” (and why does it matter for Wyoming’s public schools)?

June 4, 2025

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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Together, we can build a Better Wyoming

Reporting and Commentary

Wyoming school districts clap back at proposed education budget cuts

January 28, 2021

School districts across Wyoming told lawmakers that proposed budget cuts would eliminate hundreds of jobs and prevent them from delivering quality, equitable education as required by law. The Legislature is going forward with the cuts anyway.

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A user’s guide to the bizarre, online 2021 Wyoming legislative session

January 15, 2021

This year’s online legislative session provides unprecedented access for Wyoming residents to watch and participate. Find out what’s going on next week and how you can take part (virtually!) in the legislative process.

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NIMBY landowner campaign inflames anti-renewables attitudes to block Wyoming wind development

January 13, 2021

A proposed wind farm would bring tens of millions of dollars in revenue for Albany County and Wyoming schools, along with good jobs. But hilltop landowners worried about their backyard views have launched a campaign to stop it, trafficking in Wyomingites’ anxieties about the global transition to carbon-free energy.

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