Tag: Citizens United

An unprecedented surge of dark money casts a shadow over the 2024 elections, challenging the transparency and integrity of American democracy with over $162 million in undisclosed contributions.

"The Crows' influence-buying and political spending are emblematic of a larger problem: the ongoing attempt by billionaires to purchase our democracy."

"Billionaires shouldn't get to use their enormous wealth to pick and choose who they want in office."

After a candidate is elected, mega-donors look to influence public policy, which occurs fairly regularly in politics

Thanks to a class of reformers elected in 2018, we’ve already begun that process.

Why the past 10 years were the anti-democracy decade.

Today, Senate Democrats introduced the Democracy for All Amendment, a proposed Constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens...

"For nearly a decade, the SpeechNow ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has allowed big money donors to evade federal campaign contribution limits and corrupt even further our political process."

The dark money landscape is more than just direct spending, hundreds of millions more is being funneled through other kinds of groups that don’t fully disclose their donors.

"Citizens can't exercise their right to self-governance if we don't know who is funding our representatives."