It's important not to let the wave of state bills trying to criminalize protests frighten us away from pushing back at every level.

Twenty-one states are now considering new laws to make it harder to vote.

Green groups hope to someday amend the Colorado constitution so communities can ban fracking. An industry-sponsored amendment on the state's Nov. 8 ballot could block that.

That’s why we’re hitting the road in the last days of this hate-filled election: to uncover the real American love story.  

Though some states' efforts to suppress voter turnout have been rampant, others are trying to make it easier for citizens to cast ballots on Election Day.

The watchdog group Public Citizen finds total corporate spending on just eight local measures has topped $139 million.

Or are they making too much of former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's overtures to oil and gas producers?

"Passion counts for a lot in politics," says an ex-state senator who has been on the receiving end.

We are killing ourselves with coal, with chemicals, with carelessness and with greed, writes William Rivers Pitt.

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...