John, An “attack on American free enterprise”: that’s how future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell described the consumer, labor, and environmental movements seeking accountability in the early 1970s. In a famous memo on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Powell argued that corporations and big business could only survive this “onslaught” by approaching it with a long-range, multifaceted campaign to funnel corporate money into lobbying, dominating our political system, and creating a fabricated doctrine of corporate constitutional rights. Today, the relationship between corporations and politicians is deep-rooted in every decision our representatives make. Big money spending in our elections shatters records year after year, fueled in large part by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United that corporations are people with political speech rights. | 
