[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: We are people. Corporations are NOT!

Dear MoveOn member, 

Yesterday marked the 14th anniversary of the disastrous Citizens United v.
Federal Election Commission ruling that paved the way for corporations to
flood dark money into our elections and further drown out the voices of
everyday Americans. Our elections should be determined by we, the
people—NOT corporate entities and special-interest groups.

Since its passage, we’ve seen spikes in campaign spending year after year.
In 2020, election spending was more than $14 billion—almost three times
what it was in 2018.^1 [ [link removed] ]And with a high-stakes election just around the
corner, concerns about dark money influencing our elections are even more
urgent.

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[ [link removed] ]We can't allow corporations to buy our elections, run our government,
and erode our democracy. Tell Congress to pass the We the People Amendment
and make it explicit: Corporations ARE NOT people.

It's time to amend our Constitution and firmly establish that money is not
speech and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to
constitutional rights.

[5]Sign the petition

Citizens United rolled back a century-worth of guardrails protecting
against corporate interests' influencing our elections.^2 And despite the
assurance by the Supreme Court that there would be transparency in
spending, the reality has been anything but transparent. A decade after
its passage, undisclosed groups flooded political campaigns with more than
$960 million—compared to $129 million over the previous decade. And
candidate spending was exceeded by outside spending in 126
races.^3 [ [link removed] ]Citizens United has completely undermined our democracy,
further allowing corporate interests to buy our elections and undermine
the votes and will of everyday Americans. Enough is enough! 

The We the People Amendment will make right what Citizens United upended,
writing into the Constitution that "the rights and privileges protected
and extended by the Constitution of the United States are the rights and
privileges of natural persons only" and that "the judiciary shall not
construe the spending of money to influence elections to be speech under
the First Amendment."^4 [ [link removed] ]It's time to abolish "corporate constitutional
rights" once and for all and assert the inalienable human rights of "We
the People."

The majority of Americans, when asked if they believe corporations should
have the same rights as people, believe the Constitution should be amended
to state that corporations do not have constitutional rights.^5 [ [link removed] ]We must
take the future of our democracy into our own hands. Add your name to
demand that Congress pass the We the People Amendment NOW! 

Thanks for all you do.

–Jennie Spanos, Move to Amend

Sources:

1. "How Does the Citizens United Decision Still Affect Us in 2024?"
Campaign Legal Center, January 15, 2024
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2. "The case that could wipe out 100 years of campaign finance laws,"
Brennan Center for Justice, October 7, 2009
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3. "More money, less transparency: A decade under 'Citizens United,'" Open
Secrets, January 14, 2020
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4. "Not All Responses to Citizens United Are the Same," Move to Amend,
accessed January 19, 2024
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5. "Study: Most Americans want to kill ‘Citizens United’ with
constitutional amendment," The Center for Public Integrity, May 10, 2018
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