Ever heard this joke? “American politics is like a highway of progress. Republicans stand on the right saying turn right, Democrats stand on the left saying turn left, and Independents stand in the middle, hopelessly waiting to be ran over.”

If you haven’t heard it, you have now, and you probably understand why people think it’s humorous.

Kansas independent Greg Orman is officially running for governor in Kansas. His campaign made the announcement Wednesday with the release of a new ad that outlines his vision for the state.

In 2016, Donald Trump ignited the imaginations of a vocal and politically-potent-in-Republican-primaries minority of American voters with a promise to build a big beautiful Wall across our border with Mexico.

Publicly and privately, current and former border state officials — like me — scoffed at the idea and dismissed it as a simplistic political ploy. And that part about making Mexico pay for it? Well…that was met with a great deal of amused head-scratching.

The Alabama legislature will consider a bill that would change the state's primary election process to a nonpartisan, top-two open primary similar to the systems in California and Washington state.

This week on A Civil Assessment we welcome back both the award-winning election journalist and election fraud expert Lulu Friesdat and Florida Congressional candidate Tim Canova.

These two discuss election fraud in state and local elections, and their experiences in Florida and Alabama.

In an order issued on Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the district lines “clearly, plainly and palpably” violate the state Constitution and gave the Republican legislature until February 9 to draw new ones.

Happy Monday fellow independent voters! Hope you had a great weekend and are anticipating a good, worthwhile, productive, and imminently enjoyable next week of your life, and if you're not, that you're dead set on making it even just slightly more that way to whatever degree it's in your power to do so.

Nobody wants to be mean to a Muppet.

Congress has been systematically spending the United States government into oblivion since 2001.

Vermont is the first state to legalize adults’ possession and limited cultivation of marijuana legislatively

Marijuana will be legal in nine states and the nation’s capital when Vermont law takes effect