Clean Elections and a Stable Democracy

Protect Our Democracy

Until we are able to run fair and clean elections, we will face barriers to the transformative change we seek.

We must drastically reduce the amount of dark money in our political system, empower small-dollar donors, and move towards publicly-funded elections.

  • Over $14.4 billion was spent on the 2020 election—including $4.1 on the presidential election alone
  • So far this cycle in 2024, Super PACs raised over $2.1 billion and spent over $670 million

 

Vision and policy priorities

Get dark money out of politics

In recent elections, billions of dollars has funneled into our elections. Wealthy Americans are able to spend an unlimited amount of money with little transparency by donating to Super PACs. We must take back our democracy.

  • Overturn Citizens United and eliminate Super PACs
  • Prevent criminal corporations from influencing our government by prohibiting them from making political contributions after being convicted of fraud
  • Strengthen laws regulating those who lobby on behalf of foreign governments and ban lobbying on behalf of countries with human rights violations
  • Increase transparency in campaign finance reporting, so wealthy and corporate donors must disclose where their money is going
  • Push the Securities and Exchange Commission to require publicly-traded companies to disclose their political contributions
  • Allow for candidates to receive matching public funds for small-dollar donations

Strengthen voting rights

Republicans in Congress want to undo the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. We must protect the Voting Rights Act and work to make our elections more accessible to all.

  • Restore voting rights nationwide to those who have served their sentence
  • Protect the Voting Rights Act
  • Expand federal funding for early in-person voting and absentee voting
  • Make Election Day a national holiday
  • Automatically register every 18-year old to vote
  • Ensure states and localities are providing an adequate availability of polling places

Protect our democracy

The insurrection on January 6th must never be allowed to happen again.

  • Bar insurrectionists from holding public office
  • Arrest and charge those who were responsible for invading the Capitol on January 6th
  • Codify the process to certify the presidential election
  • Pass that National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

Reform and Expand the Supreme Court

Ethics scandals at the Supreme Court have shaken Americans’ confidence. We must take significant action to restore trust and order at our nation’s highest court.

  • Expand the court so more representative voices are involved in the rulings that affect the most intimate parts of our lives
  • Impeach corrupt justices
  • Implement a binding Code of Ethics that ensure Justices are not being banked-rolled by billionaires with business before the court or issuing rulings when they have conflicts of interest
  • Create an Inspector General that holds Justices accountable for their behavior
  • Institute term limits for justices
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