Understand the System. Change the System.
The corruption destroying American democracy is not random, it is structural. These topics explain how the system works, who benefits, and what citizens can do to take it back.
Money in Politics
How unlimited campaign spending and political donations undermine democracy and give wealthy donors outsized influence over elected officials.
Learn moreDark Money Networks
How anonymous political spending through shell organizations and nonprofit networks hides who is really buying influence in Washington.
Learn moreLobbying and Corruption
How the revolving door between government and industry creates a system where lobbyists write the laws and politicians cash in after office.
Learn moreCitizens United: The Case That Changed Everything
How the 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC unleashed unlimited corporate spending in elections and reshaped American democracy.
Learn moreJudicial Capture
How special interests have systematically influenced the selection and decisions of judges to shape American law for decades.
Learn moreTerm Limits for Congress
Why career politicians undermine democracy, and how constitutional term limits could restore citizen government.
Learn moreInsider Trading in Congress
How members of Congress use nonpublic information to make profitable stock trades while writing the laws that affect those same markets.
Learn moreRegulatory Capture
How the industries meant to be regulated end up controlling the agencies that oversee them, and why it costs Americans trillions.
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