The People's Email Network helps you tell your Congressfolk to support H.J.Res. 22/S.J.Res. 5, which would amend the Constitution to permit our federal and state governments to "set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates to influence elections." So now that we have a candidate on the Republican side who can literally buy his way into the Presidency without the help of SuperPACs and dark money and the like, a candidate who repeatedly embarrasses the Republican Party by saying the stuff in public that they only say in private, might we have some campaign finance reform now, please, Congress? Might we have fewer BS arguments about how money equals speech, less hysteria about how campaign finance reform would "silence the pastors" and allow incumbents to silence their opponents, neither of which occurred under the McCain-Feingold regime? Nah, we won't see mass converts of politicians to the cause of campaign finance reform -- not as long as big corporations pay for their campaigns and their perks. We will simply have to make them convert.
Meanwhile, if you've missed previous opportunities to tell your Congressfolk to support H.R. 2867/S. 1659, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, then the League of Conservation Voters, Friends of the Earth, and CREDO all still help you do that. You may recall that Great and Awesome and Thunderous Real American Super-President Mitch McConnell has lately suggested we don't need the Voting Rights Advancement Act because of "how different the South is now." Yet the Voting Rights Advancement Act doesn't even target the South -- it targets any state or municipality that has a record of voting rights violations. Now, if all those states and municipalities happen to be in the South, what would Mitch McConnell say then? Just kidding; he doesn't care about making sense the way civilized people care about making sense. And even if states and municipalities don't indulge in poll taxes or literacy tests anymore, they still pass Voter ID laws, get rid of early voting periods, and move voting machines out of low-income neighborhoods into wealthier ones. So let's not put up with any of that.
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