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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

“INTERIM” SPOTLIGHT: MATERNITY CARE DESERTS

June 19, 2025

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)?

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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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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Together, we can build a Better Wyoming

Reporting and Commentary

A bad rerun: 48-hour waiting period for abortions clears Wyoming House committee

February 19, 2020

The same bill, which would imprison doctors who violate the waiting period for up to ten years, passed the same committee last year with the same vote.

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Senate committee advances bill to cut $16.5 million from Wyoming school funding

February 19, 2020

A bill to cut transportation and discretionary funds would largely offset the “External cost adjustment” districts are set to receive to buoy teacher salaries.

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Wyoming House advances statewide lodging tax bill

February 17, 2020

The proposal would impose a 5 percent tax on hotel stays, generating an estimated $19 million per year mostly from out-of-state visitors.

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