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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us .
Dear Senator / Representative -
I want an absolute end to PACs, super PACs, and untraceable money in politics.
I recently read that the senate races in Texas are likely to involve more than $200 million in campaign contributions.
The ability of rich people to donate unlimited and often untraceable funds is shattering our democracy, and for the sake of all of us, please do something serious about completely reforming how campaigns are financed.
If you can't end these back-room, ultra-wealthy influence peddlers completely, I want you to support the two bills in Congress now that can help take the voluminous darkmoney out of politics and help make sure that our government is truly a representative democracy.
They are H.R. 2352 and S.4602. Both would limit contributions to PACs to $5000.
I want full transparency. I want every political donation to come with the name of the person who signed the check or made the bank transfer. I want all of it public.
I want you to cosponsor and enact these bills and restore our democracy to the American people.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Greed #Inequality #CitizensUnited -
#CitizensUnited is just the beginning. All of the #Signature gathering and #Financing to pay to be able to run in a state for #United #States #President and other offices has to be the same as the big parties, and it has to be accessible cuz money can no longer define who can run. 🔦🎤💃 #MissKitty2028
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A Public Service Announcement. #publicservice #publicserviceannouncement #citizensunited #overturncitizensunited #endcitizensunited #corruption #corruptmoney #corruptpolitics #republicansareevil #democratsareincompetent #reTHUGlicans #demoPRATS #evilpoliticalsystem #changethesystem #getdirtymoneyoutofpolitics #thesystemisbroken #vote #votenow
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#Mainers in kayaks protest Chief Justice #JohnRoberts near his island home
by Stephen Betts, Midcoast Villager
July 19, 2025"#Kayakers who say they oppose the direction the U.S. Supreme Court has taken the country took to the water Saturday morning to protest near the seasonal home of Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.
"The flotilla launched its kayaks from the new public landing in Port Clyde and paddled a few hundred yards to Roberts’ home on Hupper Island.
"The chief justice and his wife Jane Roberts purchased the home in June 2006. He typically spends time at the seasonal home after the high court recesses for the summer. Their chief residence is in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Signs voicing opposition to the #SupremeCourt’s rulings were brought in the kayaks, and others lined the waterfront."Signs referred to rulings that they said harm the #LBTQ community, the overturning of campaign spending limits for #corporations in the #CitizensUnited case in 2010, the overturning of a woman’s right to #abortion in 2022, and more recent rulings that grant the president immunity from actions taken while president.
"Organizer Susan MacNeil-Densmore said earlier this week she is affiliated with the organization #AudacityCAT (#CreativeActionTogether) which has been active locally working to resist #authoritarianism, but said the event was not really part of any specific organization."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/LQqrV#SCOTUS #ProtectTransKids
#reproductiverights #Maine #GBLTQRights #CorruptSCOTUS #Corporatocracy #NoVacationsDuringDeportations -
The movement’s triumphs are now visible but its engine remains hidden:
A billion-dollar network of groups, most of which are registered as tax-exempt charities or social welfare organizations.Taking advantage of gaps in disclosure laws, they shield the identities of most of their donors and some of the recipients of the funds.
Among those who’ve been paid by the groups are leading thinkers and individuals with close personal ties to #Leonard #Leo — including a whopping $7 million to a group run by a close friend and his wife.
They also include a for-profit business for which Leo himself is chairman and which received tens of millions of dollars from his nonprofit network.
Leo’s role as the central figure in this movement has long been known, culminating in his acquisition last year of what many believe to be the largest political donation in history.
Few are aware of the extent to which the movement’s baby steps were taken in concert with #Ginni #Thomas.
Two months before the #CitizensUnited decision, but after the justices had signaled their intentions by requesting new arguments, attorney #Cleta #Mitchell — later to play a role in Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 elections — filed papers for Ginni Thomas to create a nonprofit group of a type that ultimately benefited from the decision.
Leo was one of two directors listed on a separate application to conduct business in the state of Virginia.
Thomas was president. She signed it on New Year’s Eve of 2009, and Crow provided much of the initial cash. A key Leo aide, #SarahField, would come aboard to help Thomas manage the group, which they called #LibertyCentral.
#darkmoney #clarencethomas #samuelalito #abortionban #scotus #MoneyIsNotSpeech #CorporationsAreNotPeople
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082
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