Tag: Citizens United
Study: Most Americans want to kill ‘Citizens United’ with constitutional amendment
Both Republican and Democratic voters want to amend the Constitution to limit big money’s role in politics.
You get what you pay for: If money is speech, can...
This is not the sort of democracy the Framers had in mind, but if there is no distinction between private wealth and political influence, it’s the sort we’d better get used to.
Overturn Citizens United
Sign the petition to tell Congress to create a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
NY Times publishes article written by Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats...
“I am saddened, but not surprised, by the outcome.”
Who won in 2016? Big money.
Neither Clinton nor Trump took on the role of corporate mega-donors this election.
The Long Path to Reversing Citizens United
Campaign finance lawyers are pursuing two legal strategies to try and push back against the 2010 ruling, and other court decisions, that deregulated our campaign finance system.
It’s Citizens Who Will Save Us From Citizens United
Constitutional amendment organizers are confident of an eventual victory. “The push toward justice has always started at the grassroots.”
Doing What the Feds Won’t on Corporate Political Disclosure
A tiny Washington nonprofit is trying to do what Congress and the SEC won't.
In New York, Republicans and Democrats Join Forces to Overturn Citizens...
Seventeen states have called for a constitutional amendment to reduce the influence of money in politics. So who’s next?
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
The environmental and social impacts of fish farming and industrial aquaculture
Often promoted as sustainable, fish farming can increase pressure on wild fisheries, deepen global food inequities, and damage marine ecosystems.