45% of Americans now call themselves independent — more than either party. So why does Congress look nothing like the country?

Today Grant talks with Chad Peace of the Independent Voter Project about the hidden math behind our elections: how closed primaries, gerrymandering, and plurality voting let roughly 1–2% of the electorate pick your representative before most people even show up to vote.

→ Why independent voters aren't "closet partisans" — they're structurally locked out
→ The New Jersey primary that half the state can't vote in
→ Why Alaska now has the gold standard of elections (and why Trump hates it)
→ The one-sentence law Congress could pass tomorrow
→ Why voter ID is 84% popular but never passes
→ How we get from here to real reform

LINKS:

Independent Voter Project

Make It Make Sense Substack

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