Dear John,

We are grateful for democracy champions like YOU. In January 2020, Free Speech For People will celebrate ten years of defending our democracy. With your support, we have achieved great progress in the past decade in our work to protect our democracy and our Constitution. From taking on super PACs, challenging foreign-corporate money in our elections, fighting corruption in the White House, launching a new program to secure our elections, and much more, Free Speech For People is helping to lead the movement to reclaim our democracy for we, the people.

Since our founding on the day of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, we have advocated for a democracy in which all people can participate equally and meaningfully in the political process. Through innovative and bold legal action, public education, and collective organizing in communities across the country, we have strived to ensure all people have an equal voice and an equal vote in our democracy. Thank you for standing with us in this fight.

Free Speech For People will continue the fight for our democracy in the next decade and beyond. Will you join us?

We serve at the forefront of the movement to reclaim our democracy. Thanks to your support, Free Speech For People is a recognized leader of the movement to challenge big money in politics, unchecked corporate power, and government corruption. We are proud to share the following progress we have achieved together in 2019: 

• Challenging super PACs and foreign corporate money in US elections: We are now advancing model legislation challenging foreign corporate money and super PAC spending in elections in Maryland, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Seattle’s legislation is scheduled for a vote next month, following Amazon’s $1.5 million effort to influence the recent City Council elections.
  

• Advancing the case to end super PACs: On November 15, 2019, we filed a petition for rehearing en banc to allow our case Lieu v. FEC to be heard by the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. A full panel of this federal appeals court, like the US Supreme Court, has the authority to overturn the SpeechNow ruling, which led to the explosion of super PAC spending in elections. 
  

• Defending state and local campaign finance reform laws: We continue to provide key legal support in the defense of state reform laws. In Seattle, we filed amicus briefs with Demos in May 2018 and March 2019 in defense of a newly enacted public campaign financing program for city elections. In July 2019, the Washington Supreme Court upheld Seattle’s new “Democracy Voucher Program.” And in Massachusetts, we participated in a successful defense of a state law banning corporate contributions to political candidates.
  

• Confronting the corruption of the presidency: In January 2017, we launched a new program to challenge the unprecedented corruption of the White House. The movement we have helped to build has led the US House of Representatives to impeach President Trump. 
  

• Protecting election security: We have launched a new project, with the National Election Defense Coalition (NEDC), to challenge the use of unreliable and insecure electronic voting systems in the United States. In June 2019, we filed a lawsuit in Indiana on behalf of NEDC to access election security communications regarding the reliability and security of voting machines. And, in December 2019, we filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania against the PA Secretary of State challenging the use of new voting machines with serious election security concerns.

Donate to help us continue our fight to reclaim our democracy in 2020 and beyond.

We have reached an inflection point for our democracy. Over the past several years, the core principles of our democracy have been tested like never before. With your past support, we have risen to the challenge of this moment with our bold and innovative leadership. Your support for Free Speech For People today will allow us to do more than ever before. We will continue to advance our legal challenges to get big money out of politics. We will expand our new program to secure our elections. We will continue our work to challenge corruption at the highest levels of government. And, we will ensure our democracy works for all people, not the wealthy few.

Thank you for all that you do for this fight. Together, we will save our democracy and defend our Constitution.

Sincerely,

John Bonifaz (President, Free Speech For People)