What types of businesses come to mind when you think about corporate money in
politics?

Big Oil?

Big Pharma?

Wall Street?

Big Tech?

All true.

But a newcomer is putting those veterans to shame when it comes to the obscene
amounts of money Corporate America spends corrupting our elections.

* As detailed in a recent Public Citizen report [[link removed]] , the cryptocurrency sector alone is responsible for essentially half (48%)
of ALL the disclosed corporate money lavished on political candidates so far
this year.

* In other words, the crypto kingpins are spending virtually as much to distort
our democracy as all other Big Businesses combined!

* Crypto is currency that exists only as digital (i.e. computer) files. It is
not backed up by any government and so far it is largely unregulated. Bitcoin
may be the most well known example.

* With the crypto “industry” spending so much so fast, those old-timers — Big
Oil, Big Pharma, Wall Street, Big Tech, and more — will surely ramp up their
spending beyond even the insane levels we’ve already seen from them.

* And we can only imagine the untold amounts they are spending in the shadows
using dark money conduits.

* So the absolute dumpster fire of corporate money in politics could very well
become a veritable supernova that burns everything to ash.

All of this, of course, was set off by the Supreme Court’s infamously
anti-democratic Citizens United ruling back in 2010.

Public Citizen called for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United within moments of the decision being handed down. We’ve also consistently
fought for disclosure of the secret spending that was unleashed by the ruling.
And we’ve been a leader in the fight against corporate money in politics ever
since.

Add your name today in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn
Citizens United and get corporate money out of politics.
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Because winning a constitutional amendment can take years or even decades, we
have to keep demanding it — over and over and over — until we get it.

So please add your name today even if you’ve taken action before in support of a
constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United .
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Thanks for taking action.

For democracy,

- Robert Weissman & Lisa Gilbert, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen


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