Sign Now: Stop House and Senate leadership from gutting campaign finance laws
All Members of Congress
Ever since the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, our political campaigns have been flooded with dark money, hidden from the public eye. This has allowed for-profit and nonprofit corporations and wealthy individuals to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in support of or in opposition to candidates.
Now, House and Senate leadership are attempting to further weaken campaign finance laws by allowing nonprofits to get involved in political campaigns, and by allowing political parties to spend unlimited sums of money coordinated with candidates.
These proposed bills would increase dark money spending by up to $2 billion and would allow big donors to get around candidate contribution limits by letting candidates and parties coordinate how to spend donations as large as half-a-million dollars.
Stand with Issue One and demand that House and Senate leadership abandon its attempts to hand even more political power over to the wealthy special interests―further undermining the American people’s own influence in our democratic process.
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Recent proposals by House and Senate leadership to attach campaign finance riders to the must-pass omnibus spending bill is both an abuse of the appropriations process, and a further undermining of our democracy. We demand that Congress immediately abandon these proposals that would allow nonprofits to get involved in political campaigns, and allow political parties to launder unlimited amounts of money from wealthy interests to benefit the candidates that these powerful interests support. If passed, these proposals would take even more power away from the American people while handing it over to wealthy individuals and powerful special interests.