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Dollarocracy

Special interests dominate Washington and undermine our democracy.

The good news is that things have gotten so bad, almost everyone agrees we need to make big changes.

MoneyOut/Voters In Day

We all know the damage done by corporate money in politics. On January 19, we have the opportunity to do something about it.

Voting

From Senate races to state and city referendums, Americans made clear they wanted to limit the corrupting power of corporate money.

Barack Obama

In the next four years—and beyond—progressives must create the political space for the president to represent the majority of Americans.

The Wisconsin senate candidate rejects the idea of corporate personhood.

'Citizens United' and the Corporate Court

Giving corporations the inalienable right to buy elections.

Since Citizens United, corporations and foreign entities can spend unlimited undisclosed funds on elections. Here's what it looks like.

Never Mind Super PACs: How Big Business Is Buying the Election

Thanks to Citizens United, US and foreign corporations can secretly spend millions on political campaigns under the cover of trade associations.

The depressing defeat of the recall suggests that “money power” cannot be easily thwarted, even by determined “people power.”

Blogs

Unfettered corporate spending in elections is silencing citizen voices. 

October 26, 2012

STUDENT FINALIST: When one candidate can raise over seven time the funds of the other, it becomes nearly impossible to get a nonbiased view of the election.

October 25, 2012

STUDENT FINALIST: The threat of an even further-right-wing Supreme Court is the forgotten issue of this election. 

October 23, 2012

STUDENT FINALIST: What is really at stake this November is nothing less than the existence of an American republic.

October 23, 2012

From the founding of the republic, inequality has been built into our country’s DNA.

October 19, 2012

One thousand San Francisco activists are standing up (by lying down) against the hugely unpopular Supreme Court ruling. 

October 16, 2012

Right-wing blogs are buzzing about a bunk report on Obama’s receiving foreign donations. Citizens United opens up a far more dangerous loophole for foreign cash. 

October 11, 2012

A US court of appeals reversed a lower-court decision that would have potentially forced some outside groups to open their books and reveal dark-money donors. 

September 19, 2012

The Citizens United decision of the “most powerful branch in government” demonstrates that it’s a Court for the 1 percent.

September 17, 2012
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