Citizens United & Amending the Constitution

Last night's election was the most expensive midterm in our nation's history -- OpenSecrets.org compiled a list of the 25 biggest spenders.

With $3.7 billion spent on campaigns this year, the Daily Show congratulates the 2014 election's real winner -- money.

As hundreds of thousands of people join in the People’s Climate March in New York City this weekend, which Common Cause is co-sponsoring, fossil fuel money pumped in our political system remains the most significant threat to not only passing legislation addressing climate change, but also getting members of Congress talk about the issue.

Opponents of the Democracy for All Amendment have spent the past three days arguing that the amendment is a dangerous attack on the First Amendment. Their votes today expose them as the real opponents of free speech, maintaining a system that lets a few wealthy Americans drown out the voices of millions of their fellow citizens.

Opponents of the Democracy for All Amendment have spent the past three days arguing that the amendment is a dangerous attack on the First Amendment. Their votes today expose them as the real opponents of free speech, maintaining a system that lets a few wealthy Americans drown out the voices of millions of their fellow citizens.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said some very bizarre things on Tuesday as he and his colleagues debated the Democracy for All amendment, which would overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision and allow Congress to again regulate campaign spending.