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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
Citizen lobbyists push for commonsense cannabis reform at the Wyoming Legislature
A dozen or so people braved the elements one snowy day during the 2019 session to support a hemp bill and educate legislators about the benefits of medical cannabis.
Read MoreBebout’s tax break for oil companies dies an 11th-hour quiet death
On an absurdly late final night of the 2019 session, Bebout went home before the House and Senate could hash out disagreements over his proposed oil tax break. In Bebout’s absence, the bill sputtered and died.
Read MoreFarmers, pain patients, and Wyoming’s economy will benefit from our new hemp law
A bill to legalize hemp survived a last-ditch attack from law enforcement lobbyists and a temporary threat to its funding before it passed its final hurdles in the Legislature this week.
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