A reminder:
- In the early morning of January 7, 2021, 147 members of Congress opposed certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
- All 147 were Republicans.
- And all 147 had seen their own safety — not to mention our very democracy — at risk just hours earlier when a violent mob stormed the United States Capitol in an insurrection intended to keep Donald Trump in power illegally.
Nearly 250 corporations pledged to stop contributing to the representatives and senators that formed this Sedition Caucus.
But since then, much of Corporate America — including companies like American Express, AT&T, Home Depot, Lockheed Martin, Toyota, UPS, and Walgreens, just to name a few — has reneged on that pledge.
In fact, members of the Sedition Caucus have so far received over $16 million from companies that reneged on their pledge not to fund exactly those members of Congress.
Even as the risk to our democracy — from politicians and candidates animated by Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him — has only grown more severe.
To companies that reneged on the pledge to stop bankrolling congressional insurrectionists:
The threat to our democracy from adherents of Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the election was “stolen” from him has only grown more severe. Keep your pledge not to make campaign contributions to members of Congress who supported the January 6 insurrection.
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Thanks for taking action.
For democracy,
- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
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