$86 million.

A new Public Citizen report reveals that Corporate America has spent $86 million in just the past six years bankrolling the almost exclusively Republican state legislators around the country that are pushing some 361 voter suppression bills in all but three states.

• That includes the flagrantly anti-democratic and racist bills in Georgia and Texas we emailed you about last week.

• To put that big number in context: Before the Trump pandemic, a typical American made about $36,000 a year — at that rate, it would take 2,389 years to make $86 million.

• Some of the biggest corporate funders of vote-suppressing state legislators are Comcast, tobacco pushers Philip Morris, and Walmart.

• After the Trump insurrection on January 6, some companies made a show of “pausing” their political contributions.

• Well, 3 out of 4 of those companies are among the corporate giants that have funded vote-suppressing politicians in states all across America.

The anti-democratic state legislators benefitting from all this corporate cash may not even have been elected in the first place if it weren’t for millions and millions in campaign contributions from Big Business.

Tell Comcast, Walmart, and the rest of Corporate America:

Get the hell out of our elections. Stop propping up racist, anti-democratic political hacks. Stop ALL political contributions, right now and forever. Just stop.

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Thanks for taking action.

For democracy,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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