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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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Strong Communities

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Engaged citizens and a responsive government

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Opportunities to build a brighter future

BUILD STRONG WYOMING COMMUNITIES

Learn how our Strong Wyoming Communities campaign engages people in the civic processes that shape our lives and the future of our state. Join us in building stronger Wyoming communities!

Updates

Three ways YOU can get involved for the 2025 legislative session

December 19, 2024

The 2025 legislative session is just around the corner. Here are three concrete things you can do to get involved with Better Wyoming for the session.

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We’re Hiring!

December 13, 2024

Join our team as a field organizer in Casper where you will work to
empower residents to shape the future of your community, while connecting
with similar efforts across Wyoming.

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Make your voting plan

October 7, 2024

Better Wyoming wants YOU to vote in both elections, all the way “down the ballot” in local races. Making a vote plan helps ensure that voting isn’t a task you forget until it’s too late.

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Together, we can build a Better Wyoming

Reporting and Commentary

Back-door Bebout reassigns public school defunding bill to a friendlier committee

February 20, 2018

Senate President Eli Bebout (R-Riverton) on Monday reassigned a proposed Wyoming State Constitutional amendment that would defund public education after he realized the committee to which he initially assigned it might not pass the measure. Bebout is a co-sponsor of Senate Joint Resolution 4, which would amend the state constitution […]

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Two criminal justice reform bills sail through the House, as they have in years past. Will they die in the Senate, as they have in years past?

February 17, 2018

A pair of positive, commonsense criminal justice reform proposals passed House Judiciary Committee this week. But “tough on crime” lawmakers are lurking in the senate, ready to kill any bill that doesn’t keep our prisons overflowing with inmates.

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Senate introduces bill to give birth certificates to miscarried fetuses

February 16, 2018

The Wyoming State Legislature just can’t resist the urge to barge into doctors’ offices and tell physicians and their female patients what to do during the most private and vulnerable scenarios imaginable. A proposed bill that would force medical professionals to offer a “nonviable birth certificate” to women who miscarry […]

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