Support Fair Elections Now

On March 31, at a press-only event at the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.) talked about one of the reasons why he and other members of Congress are introducing the Fair Elections Now Act. After watching the video, please take a minute to sign the petition below urging members of Congress to support the Fair Elections Now Act.

Petition Text:

I urge you to co-sponsor the Fair Elections Now Act, introduced by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), and Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.), and Todd Platts (R-PA).

Under the Fair Elections Now Act, Congressional candidates who raise enough small dollar donations qualify for the fair elections system and receive a competitive grant coupled with a 4 to 1 match on additional contributions between $5-$100.

If you agree with me that this is a better way to run elections, please help make sure this bill moves quickly through Congress.

Join the Donor Strike

Using the form below, pledge not to donate to any federal candidate unless they support legislation making congressional elections citizen-funded, not special-interest funded.

Just select the name of the candidate and tell us how much you plan to withhold. We'll compile the results and, along with our coalition partners, let the media and Congress know that our dollars are off the table until they support the Fair Elections Now Act to reform our campaign finance system.

Corporations Are Not People

Don't Let Their Money Drown Out My Voice!

The Supreme Court is considering setting aside 100 years of precedent with a ruling that would dramatically INCREASE the amount of corporate money in politics and elections.

Please write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper (sample below), before our justices get too far down the wrong path.

Comments / Questions? Corporations Are Not People, So Don't Let Their Money Drown Out My Voice! As someone who believes strongly in civic participation, the idea that a corporation — which the Supreme Court has called an "artificial entity," and that is made up of individual shareholders and employees with different political beliefs — could be allowed to spend directly from its massive corporate treasury on ads for or against a candidate is truly frightening. A corporation is not, nor has it ever been, a person with voting rights. Corporations are not our neighbors, they cannot get married, they cannot die, and a corporation has never been a constituent member of "We the People." However, a decision in favor of the plaintiff in Citizen's United vs. the Federal Election Commission — the controversial case that was reheard in Washington on September 9th — would allow corporations to use their immense wealth to loudly promote or attack candidates through unlimited expenditures on ads. Barack Obama sailed into Washington on a wave of change, buoyed by small donations he received from millions of American citizens. To suddenly decide that those voices should be drowned out by the massive accumulated money of a single "corporate person," runs counter to the very ideals of a representative democracy.

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