CALIFORNIA -- It is hard to believe that the first state in the country's history to have two women serving as U.S. senators at the same time might have a problem attracting women to run for public office, but that's the situation in California.

Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were the first women ever to be U.S. senators from the same state at the same time. New Hampshire and Washington now can also make that claim.

In the first week since its launch, the petition to gather support for a town hall featuring Sens. Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul has exploded.

In addition to the thousands of signatures collected, Senator Paul confirmed with Truth In Media that he would in fact participate in a town hall with Senator Sanders.

“We need an insurgency of the rational: a generation of Americans who are fed up with the current political system, who believe we can do better, and most important, who are ready to do something about it.”. — Charles Wheelan - Founder of The Centrist Project and author of “The Centrist Manifesto”

Millions of people intuitively understand the four simple words Mr.

The cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. became an issue of concern after the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, Martin Shkreli, increased the per-pill price of Daraprim – used to treat patients suffering from toxoplasmosis – from $13.50 to $750.

In the U.S., the BDS movement has become a proxy battlefield for the conflict between Israel and Palestine, putting pressure on Muslim, pro-Palestinian, and Jewish Americans to defend themselves as surrogate representatives of foreign players.

From the inception of his campaign, Larry Lessig has run on the promise to deliver the most clear and unambiguous mandate possible from citizens of the U.S. to the 2017 Congress, demanding that the first act be a fix to democracy in the form of a single statute titled, the Citizen Equality Act (CEA). But, what is the CEA?

Whether you support political parties or not, one thing we should all agree on is that the public election process should serve voters.

Over the course of our history, voter discrimination has taken many forms. Today, both parties have engaged in a "voting rights" debate related to "voter access" and "voter fraud." But rarely do we ask fundamental questions about the process itself, like why do our representatives seem to serve their party more than the voters in the first place?

CNBC confirmed Wednesday that there will be two events for the next Republican debate, an undercard debate and then the main stage of top-tier candidates. The announcement comes after some candidates expressed concern that CNBC would not follow a similar format as CNN and Fox News.

The CNBC criteria reads:

On Monday, Donald Trump released his tax plan during a press conference at Trump Tower in New York. Trump cited the need to simplify the complex tax code to make America strong again.

On August 17, Air Force veteran Chris Keniston was formally declared the first official presidential candidate of the Veterans Party of America. However, few people have likely heard of Keniston or the Veterans Party, founded in 2013, since not a single major news outlet covered the event.

Yet for Keniston, this wasn't unexpected.