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Dear John,
From small towns to suburbs to big cities, communities all across the country have organized for decades to win powerful local solutions that address shared needs. Whether it’s good paying jobs, safe and affordable homes, clean air and water — people have worked together to look after each other and stand up to corporate greed.
But corporations and billionaire CEOs have honed a strategy to block our efforts to check their power. While everyday people fight for solutions that make their lives better, corporations in turn buy, bully, and bamboozle state lawmakers into banning the local policies that protect and strengthen our communities.
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The Hidden Heist: How Corporations Push State Bans to Keep us Broke and Hijack our Democracy [[link removed]] reveals and traces how corporations in different states, industries, and eras have used the same playbook to ban a wide range of community-driven solutions. In it we explore the tactics, the repeat villains, the two-century history of corporations and wealthy elites hijacking our democracy, and five state-specific case studies.
The state bans corporations push today are part of a longer two-century effort by corporations and wealthy elites to hijack democracy and suppress efforts to rein in their abuses.
[link removed] [[link removed]] From Southern plantation owners pushing for “state’s rights” to defend slavery, to business leaders paying fundamentalist Christian leaders like Jerry Falwell to preach the free market gospel, corporations and wealthy elites have repeatedly bought, bullied, and bamboozled lawmakers — and the American public — to reshape politics in service of their interests and a white supremacist vision of who belongs in American society.
Dig into the history [[link removed]] of corporations and wealthy elites hijacking our democracy, and how they created the conditions that have fueled the rise of authoritarians today.
In their fervent quest to resist any checks on their power and profitmaking, corporations have created the political structures, the playbook, and the social and economic conditions that have fueled the rise of authoritarians today.
To fight back and win, we need to expose the tactics that corporations and the wealthy elite try to use to keep us broke and divided. And we need to make it clear to our elected leaders that they have a choice: help us build thriving, healthy communities or help line the pockets of greedy billionaires.
Explore the full report [[link removed]] , dig into the Missouri case study [[link removed]] , and keep an eye out for the remaining four case studies focused on Tennessee, Texas, California, and Colorado!
In solidarity,
Jessie Vollmer
Campaign Director
PowerSwitch Action
1305 Franklin St.
Suite 501
Oakland, CA 94612
United States
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