Protect Our Elections
-By Eric W. Dolan November 2, 2011- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday night slammed the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision and supported legislation to overturn it. Democratic…
-By Kristen Gwynne November 1, 2011- People for the American Way (PFAW) is officially commending Senators Tom Udall (D-NM) and Michael Bennet (D-CO), among others, for introducing and supporting a…
-By Ian Millhiser October 27, 2011- After the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in American elections, the decision’s defenders claimed this wasn’t such…
-By Paul Blumenthal October 27, 2011- Everyone is used to seeing a flood of political advertising, whether they are vicious attack ads or saccharine puff pieces, in the months before…
-By Paul Blumenthal October 26, 2011- The backlash against the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission continues to grow as a trio of progressive media icons…
-by Andrew Reinbach October 19, 2011- When is official Washington going to do more than talk about Clarence Thomas? After all the issues raised this year about the Associate Justice--including…
Cenk Uygur- of MSNBC, Current TV, and Young Turks fame- has just announced a new political action committee, the Wolf PAC whose objective is to pass a 28th Amendment to…
A conservative multimillionaire has taken control in North Carolina, one of 2012’s top battlegrounds -by Jane Mayer October 10, 2011- In the spring of 2010, the conservative political strategist Ed…
-by Evelyn Messinger October 3, 2011- In 2012, two tidal waves will reconfigure the American electoral system and the news media that cover it. A tsunami made of money will…
-by Dylan Ratigan September 27, 2011- Money has bought our politics. Only we the people can take it back. But, HOW? I have asked a professional lobbyist and a series…
-by Paul Blumenthal September 26, 2011- WASHINGTON -- In the span of a week in September, two independent political committees announced unheard-of fundraising plans for the coming campaign season. The…
-By Mike Lillis September 20, 2011- A pair of House Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling that freed corporations to spend unlimited money…
-by Michael R. Gideon September 22, 2011- Two House Democrats are pushing new legislation that would overturn the controversial Citizens United ruling. Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich), senior Democrat on the…