'He's a role model. Most rich guys are on a yacht. They're not doing anything for humanity.'
, a “philanthropic venture fund” dedicated to radically reshaping the way we elect our public officials. The walls are splashed with slogans in red and blue reading things like"Country Over Party.” Depictions of the Statue of Liberty are omnipresent. A bubbly employee repeatedly offers me a bagel., Unite America’s executive director, walks in looking abundantly boyish in khakis and a neat haircut.
Thiry and Unite America’s current pressing concern is their joint home base, Colorado, where they are pushing a constitutional measure for the November ballot that would bring open primaries and ranked-choice voting to elections statewide beginning in 2026, from the state legislature and governor to the U.S. Senate.
“The changes, taken together, would make it easier for powerful, wealthy people to control elections,” Dumm says. “And Unite America, obviously, has boatloads and boatloads of money.”Born and raised in Milford, Pennsylvania, Troiano says he’s always had an “affinity towards civic engagement,” to “leaving a community better than how you found it.” Smiling, he adds, “I joined student council in second grade, and it’s been a snowball rolling downhill ever since.
“The largest and fastest-growing segment in the electorate are people who don’t belong to either political party,” he says. “You wouldn’t necessarily know that by the constant maps of red and blue — but this is a country of purple.”that shows that a disproportionate number of independents who don’t participate in partisan primaries are young people and military veterans.
In November 2024, Troiano points out, “half a dozen states might take” Alaska-style initiatives “to the ballot to reform primaries.” In Arizona, Montana, South Dakota and Idaho, measures are moving forward through the process of getting on the ballot. In Nevada, an Alaska-style measure is already on the ballot.
Many of Dumm’s allies in the cabal first met while pushing a suite of reforms in 2013 aimed at making voting in Colorado as accessible as possible. A little over a decade later, they reconnected to push back against Thiry. The group jokes that it’s kind of like getting the band back together.Shad Murib is one of Dumm’s allies in the push against Thiry’s ballot measure.
“You can flood the ballot process and eventually get your title,” Wasserman says, “if you have $5 million and a dream.” Dumm has actually worked directly with Thiry before, during a 2018 redistricting process. When I ask what he’s like in person, she says she never wanted to “crawl inside that brain.”
In 2014, via the Department of Justice: “DaVita paid $350m to resolve allegations…it gave illegal kickbacks to physicians who referred patients to DaVita” including “non-disparagement agreements that would have prevented the physicians from referring their patients to other dialysis providers.” A blandly handsome native Wisconsinite, Thiry cultivates a milquetoast outward persona. His Twitter bio partially reads “Love being a father of two.” When speaking to the press, Thiry sticks to mild Unite America-style talking points. He declined my repeated requests for an interview, instead sharing a statement: “Elections belong to voters — not political parties.
“Given that our North Star is building governing power for the multiracial working class, we tend to look at any kind of shift in the rules around elections with a pretty hard eye,” Howell says. Underpinning Colorado’s electoral system’s “gold standard” reputation are its well-respected county clerks. They’re the ones who actually count the votes. And they don’t usually like to make a fuss. But soon after Unite America and Thiry began pushing their election reform measure, Colorado’s clerks began speaking up.
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