John, One year from this week, voters will head to the polls to elect their leaders on the federal, state, and local levels, including the next president and several key Senate and House seats. Yet millions of Americans face a very real threat that their vote will not be properly coun…

John, Last week, we told you how Amazon has pumped over $1.5 million into Seattle’s city council elections in order to elect candidates sympathetic to its business practices. Not only does this massive corporate spending drown out the voices of ordinary Seattle voters, but because mor…

Dear John, Happy Halloween! Here at Free Speech For People, there’s nothing scarier than a democracy in crisis. Take Seattle, for example: As of last week, Amazon has poured over $1.5 million into Seattle’s upcoming city council election through the local Chamber of Commerce’s super …

John, A historic day is coming.  Since the day he took the oath of office, Donald Trump has engaged in repeated abuses of power and abuses of the public trust.  He refused to divest from his business interests around the world before assuming the presidency, setting himself on a coll…

John, Buried in the whistleblower complaint which exposed the Ukraine scandal is this alarming claim: the Trump White House has been abusing a computer system for highly classified intelligence information to cover up transcripts of presidential calls with foreign leaders which are “p…

John, With each passing election, we continue to witness the devastating effects that Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United have had on our democracy. Every day our voices are drowned out as wealthy interests and giant corporations pour money into the political process -- in an…

John, As he now faces a formal impeachment inquiry with a majority of the American public in support of it, President Trump is in full meltdown. He has engaged in reckless foreign policy actions, leading to a humanitarian crisis for tens of thousands of Kurds at the Turkish-Syrian bor…

John, In its Citizens United v. FEC ruling in 2010, the US Supreme Court swept away a century of precedent that barred corporate money in our elections and endorsed the dangerous fiction that corporations have the same constitutional rights as living, breathing people. The most direct…

John, During his July 24th testimony to Congress, Special Counsel Robert Mueller stressed the seriousness of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, warning that Russia is working to undermine the 2020 election “as we speak.” Senator Mitch McConnell later approved an additional $2…

Dear John, In an October 8th letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Committee Chairs Adam Schiff, Eliot Engel, and Elijah Cummings, White House counsel Pat Cipollone accused House Democrats of using their impeachment inquiry as part of a long-standing plot to unconstitutionally remo…

John, Following the explosive evidence that President Trump solicited the Ukrainian government for assistance in his re-election campaign, Congress is finally mounting a formal impeachment inquiry. But we must keep the pressure on and demand that this inquiry cover all of Trump’s impe…

John, We have reached a historic moment in the movement to hold Donald Trump accountable for his high crimes via the impeachment process. 224 Members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are now on record supporting an impeachment inquiry of the president. More than 80 M…

Welcome, John.  Thank you for signing on to our campaign to reclaim our democracy!  In the face of the most expensive elections in U.S. history and the rising threat of unchecked corporate power, Free Speech For People is fighting back in defense of the promise of political equality for all and the…

The Mueller investigation is only focused on whether the President or any of his associates committed violations of federal criminal law. But the impeachment process does not require a finding that the President has committed a federal criminal violation. It only requires a showing of …

As a grassroots-powered organization, we depend on you both for support and to guide our work. We’ve achieved a huge amount in the nine months since Trump took office (over a million supporters, 58 Members of Congress backing articles of impeachment, etc.), and now we’re strategizing o…

John, Thank you for adding your name to the Impeach Donald Trump Now petition. Since Trump was elected, more than 1.3 million people have signed on in favor of an impeachment investigation. Free Speech For People is fighting for impeachment through our Impeach Donald Trump Now campa…

Welcome, John.  Thank you for signing on to our campaign to reclaim our democracy!  In the face of the most expensive elections in U.S. history and the rising threat of unchecked corporate power, Free Speech For People is fighting back in defense of the promise of political equality for all and the…