Democracy Wire

It's been five years since the Citizens United ruling, and we've been working hard since then to get money out of politics and protect the judiciary from the real threat of politicization. Just last week, the Koch brothers and announced that their network of secretive donors plans to invest nearly $900 million in next year's campaigns. That's more than what either national political party has ever spent on an election cycle, and it exceeds George W. Bush and John Kerry combined spending in their 2004 presidential race.

Today, California Common Cause joined several other groups, like our friends at League of Women Voters, to serve notice on the DMV to shape up, or we’re suing.

Republicans and Democrats join forces in Raleigh to push proposals to reform redistricting and end gerrymandering in North Carolina.

Maryland governor backs campaign finance and redistricting reform in State of the State address.

California Common Cause joined with Free Speech For People and other public interest groups in filing a brief this week with the California Supreme Court urging it to give voters a chance to call for the reversal of the Citizens United ruling.

The large broadband providers say that they support net neutrality in the same way that we all support baseball and apple pie, but the devil's in the details.