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When Congress, the president and the media run roughshod over popular will and citizen action, small-d democracy pays the price.

Ballot

Looking toward 2012, ALEC is peddling “Voter ID” laws to disenfranchise voters least likely to support their right-wing candidates.

Voters

If Democrats follow Republicans in raising millions from undisclosed sources, they will undermine their moral argument for campaign finance reform.

Curbing Big Money

Momentum is growing to reform campaign finance and rebalance our election system.

Inside the right's campaign to hijack our country's founding text—and how to fight back.

Was the Supreme Court's infamous decision a desecration, or only what the Constitution requires? A First Amendment scholar and civil liberties advocate debate.

The former senator talks about money and politics, connecting with voters in the age of mass media and his future in public life.

Unchecked by campaign finance regulation, unchallenged by a journalism sufficient to expose abuses, a nearly unbeatable force opposed progressives in 2010.

Lawrence Lessig talks to Chris Hayes about what progressives can do to combat the destructive effects of corporate money in elections.

Blogs

Thirty Republican legislators join Democrats and independents to demand a constitutional amendment.

May 1, 2013

Swiss voters just empowered shareholders to restrict and restrain corporate abuses. The US should follow their lead, especially when it comes to corporate influence on campaigns. 

March 4, 2013

How committed is the president to kicking big money out of politics?

February 25, 2013

A new proposal from the SEC to require companies to disclose political spending is drawing a harsh rebuke from big business lobbyists. 

January 10, 2013

Publicly traded companies should have to disclose their political giving, for the good of investors and the campaign finance system.

January 8, 2013

“Social welfare groups” don’t have to disclose their donors, even though they’re giving millions to campaigns.

November 5, 2012

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