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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
Better Wyoming Fights Irresponsible Tax Cuts
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.
Read MoreWyoming Says NO to Book Bans
Hundreds of people flooded lawmakers with emails and gave public testimony in resistance to a bill that aims to ban books and penalize libraries. The fight isn’t over, but together we’ve shown the legislature that Wyoming won’t accept censorship.
Read MoreBetter Wyoming Leads the Charge for our Public Lands
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.
Read MoreReporting and Commentary
Wyoming Legislature does nothing to address the “State of Insecurity” low-income folks face — 2019 Legislative recap
Efforts to raise Wyoming’s minimum wage, provide tax relief to very poor elderly and disabled people, and help fund food pantries all died this session.
Read MoreFoster Friess’ Magic School Bill rides into the law books — 2019 Legislative recap
Gov. Mark Gordon allowed the bill to become law today without signing it. The debate over what Gordon called “flawed” legislation pitted “school choice” advocates against defenders of local control.
Read MoreWyoming’s new abortion reporting law will help anti-choice activists harass doctors and women — 2019 Legislative recap
It was the third law passed in three years in Wyoming to attack women’s reproductive rights. Prior to 2017, an anti-abortion law had not passed here in nearly 30 years. Three other anti-choice bills proposed in 2019 were defeated.
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