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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.

What makes a better Wyoming

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Engaged citizens and a responsive government

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Opportunities to build a brighter future

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.

Updates

 Unite to Protect Medicaid in Wyoming

May 21, 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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68th Legislative Session

Overall Statewide Accountability Report

April 16, 2025

The 2025 General Session marked a shift for the Wyoming Legislature with the so-called “Freedom Caucus” taking on leadership positions for the first time.

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Statewide Accountability Report 4: Feb. 24 – Mar. 7

March 4, 2025

The final two weeks of a legislative session usually involves intense negotiations between the House and Senate over the budget. But this year, in an unprecedented event, the two chambers simply decided to not pass a budget, leaving millions of dollars of state programs unfunded.

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Reporting and Commentary

Wyoming House advances last surviving abortion bill of the budget session

March 10, 2020

The bill would criminalize doctors who fail to perform life-saving measures for infants meant to be aborted but that are accidentally “born alive”—a law that would rarely, if ever, be applied in Wyoming, since abortions after 12 weeks are illegal here and fetuses are not viable until at least 20 – 23 weeks. Two other anti-abortion bills have been defeated.

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Wyoming Senate President singlehandedly kills two antipoverty bills

March 7, 2020

A tax rebate program for elderly and disabled poor people and a cost-of-living increase for retired state workers both passed the House. But the bills died in the desk of Senate President Drew Perkins, who refused to introduce them for consideration.

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Cranky old guy coalition kills childcare reimbursements for Wyoming legislators

March 6, 2020

Wyoming’s Legislature is overwhelmingly made up of rich old men who have the time and money to serve as “citizen” lawmakers. The budget measure they defeated would have made the Legislature more accessible to younger working people.

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