Dear friend of OpenSecrets,

Ten years after the Citizens United ruling the impact is clear: there is more money flowing through the campaign finance system and less transparency.

Just 10 uber-wealthy donors and their spouses accounted for more than $1.2 billion of election spending over the last decade and non-party groups payed out an additional $4.5 billion. And even though corporations did not emerge as the dominant political force as predicted, voters are under siege by ads from secretive groups that hide their funding sources.

This level of secrecy is unacceptable. To make sense of it all, OpenSecrets has just released
More money, less transparency: A decade under Citizens United ([link removed]) , a report that illuminates the dramatic ways America’s campaign finance system has changed in the decade since Citizens United. With your help ([link removed]) we will continue to investigate and produce original reporting that looks comprehensively at the long-term impact of money’s influence and this profoundly important decision in particular.

We have a decade of evidence suggesting that the Supreme Court got it wrong when they said political spending from independent groups would be coupled with necessary disclosure. Nearly a billion "dark money" dollars were spent since the decision. We must stand for transparency and count it all.
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OpenSecrets will continue to fight back against the shift toward less accountability in government and do all we can to expose the vast sums freed of limits by Citizens United that influence our political system. Especially in this critical 2020 election cycle, we need your support to follow the money. ([link removed])

Thank you,

Sheila Krumholz
Executive Director
Center for Responsive Politics

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