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Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fighting Back Against ‘Citizens United’

What can you do to help overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision?

Francis Reynolds

January 18, 2012

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  Two years ago, in an “unprecedented assault on our democracy,” the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can spend unlimited amounts on electoral campaigns. Today, 80 percent of Americans want to overturn the court’s Citizens United vs. FEC decision. The Nation’s editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel shares ways you can help take back government so it remains one of the people, by the people and for the people, and not for corporations and their money.

For more information, visit united4thepeople.org and fairelectionsnow.org. Click here to embed this video.

—Elizabeth Whitman

You can access all of The Nation‘s coverage of Citizens United by clicking here.

Francis ReynoldsTwitterFrancis Reynolds is The Nation’s multimedia editor.


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