John,
I’m going to get straight to the point: our democracy is supposed to belong to all of us, but a handful of billionaires and corporate interests are trying to buy the whole damn thing.
They’re pouring unlimited money into our elections to protect their power and their profits — and everyday people, especially Black, brown, working-class, and marginalized communities, are the ones pushed out of the room.
This race comes down to a basic question: Do everyday people still get a seat at the table, or do billionaires get to buy the whole thing out from under us?
I’m running for re-election because I refuse to let the voices of real people be drowned out by billionaire checkbooks. In Congress, I’ve introduced legislation to take on the corrupting power of big money and the wealth hoarding that fuels it — from the Abolish Super PACs Act, which shuts down the loopholes that allow dark-money groups and mega-donors to overwhelm our elections, to the Citizens Over Corporations Amendment, which overturns Citizens United once and for all.
Because at the end of the day, I believe something simple: our democracy should answer to the people — not the powerful.
When big money controls our politics, everything we care about is on the line: housing, healthcare, climate action, gun safety, reproductive freedom, workers’ rights…and the list goes on. We cannot build a government that works for everyday people if a tiny group of ultra-wealthy donors gets to write the rules for all of us.
A real democracy means banning dark money. It means overturning Citizens United. It means building a political system that can’t be bought or sold, one where representation isn’t something you can purchase and where every community gets heard.
But here’s the truth: the same billionaires and corporate interests I’m fighting in Congress are the same ones who come for our people-powered movement. They think if they flood the airwaves with enough money, they can silence us for good.
They’re wrong — but only if we stand together.
This seat has always belonged to the people. And with your help, that’s exactly where it’ll stay… just like it has every single time they’ve tried to beat us.
Always with you in this fight,
— Summer
