For many years, Americans have been losing their trust in our government and feeling unheard by the people who are supposed to represent them.

In a Pew Research poll, more than 8 in 10 U.S. adults agreed that “special interest groups and lobbyists have too much say in what happens in politics” and “the cost of political campaigns makes it hard for good people to run for office.”

These costs keep going up.

In the 2024 election, just 100 billionaire families spent a record $2.6 billion to influence our elections.

Also last year, AIPAC spent more than $100 million in 2024, including more than $25 million to defeat Reps. Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, making their primary elections the two most expensive in U.S. history. This was the biggest source of Republican money interfering in Democratic primaries.

This influx of right-wing billionaire spending drowns out the voices of everyday voters and makes it virtually impossible for working-class candidates to run for office and win.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a proud co-sponsor of legislation to expand campaign finance reforms—including the Protecting Our Democracy Act to hold elected officials accountable and get dark money out of politics, the DISCLOSE Act to require additional transparency in elections, and the Democracy for All Amendment to overturn Citizens United and limit corporate campaign spending while encouraging public campaign financing.

Public trust in our government has dwindled due to corruption. It’s shameful that some members of Congress are profiting financially when they vote to support wars and weapons manufacturing. That’s why Rashida introduced legislation to ban members of Congress from profiting off of war.

Please add your name to demand Congress pass anti-corruption policies and campaign finance reform to get Big Money out of politics, such as the DISCLOSE Act, the Democracy for All Amendment, the Protecting Our Democracy Act, and the Stop Politicians Profiting from War Act.