Citizens United Broke Democracy. We're Fighting Back.

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Guest article by Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United

Fifteen years ago, the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United ruling shattered the fragile guardrails that once protected American democracy from corporate greed and billionaire influence. Since then, deep-pocketed special interests have flooded our elections with unlimited cash, turning our government into a rigged auction where power goes to the highest bidder.

The damage has been catastrophic: Billionaires wield unchecked influence in Washington, corporations write the very laws meant to regulate them, and public trust has plunged to historic lows. And last November, our political system hit a breaking point when the world’s richest man bankrolled a presidential victory—returning Donald Trump to the White House for four more years of corruption.

Now, Trump treats the presidency like a personal ATM—selling access through shady meme coin scams, accepting a $400 million luxury jet from the Qatari royal family, and much more. Washington may be no stranger to backroom deals, but this is corruption striding through the front door—complete with valet parking and a red carpet for any billionaire or foreign regime willing to pay the price.

This is the America Citizens United created—and exactly why End Citizens United (ECU) was founded 10 years ago: to fight back and meet this moment head-on.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/citizens-united-broke-democracy-were

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1. If Democrats had listened to some of their more active and aware members of Congress,

back in 2020, and had pushed to break the stupid and antiquated, outdated, undemocratic senate filibuster in order to pack the Supreme Court, citizens United would have been overturned, and we wouldn't be where we are.

Well, we'd have saved Roe, too, and overturned the ridiculous Presidential Immunity ruling, pushed Trump's indictments to a much faster trial and verdict and gotten rid of him. And we'd have endured some criticism that it was political, and there would have been some risk, though I don't think that would have been nearly as hard to handle as his dismantling of the government and undoing of democracy. Do you?

Yes, you're damn right I'm frustrated. What did they think we elected them to do, keep raising money to protect their turf and protect their job while selling me and there rest of the party out?

It is long past time for some leadership changes, starting with Schumer.