Democracy Wire

We’ve exposed them for running a tax scam and a secretive “war on democracy.” We’ve documented how their “scholarship” program works as a slush fund to cover the cost of trips to luxury resorts for state legislators and how their corporate members ghostwrite legislation. We’ve worked with allies to successfully encourage dozens of corporations to abandon them.

Last night, I spoke with Thom Hartmann about how Sen. Robert Menendez's indictment for corruption exposes the faulty reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United and how we can fix that decision's corrosive influence in our democracy.

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Comcast is a big, big, spender. It employs an army of lobbyists who use cash to influence everything from telecoms to ag policy (no really, last year it lobbied on the farm bill.) Their influence peddling extends up and down the ballot - from their 124 federal lobbyists, to their state-level meddling through ALEC, all the way down to city-level politics.

Corruption isn’t hard to find in American government.

When news broke that ALEC was making legal threats against activists exposing its record and practices, lots of people took notice.