Josh Silver
Josh Silver is CEO of United Republic, a national, nonpartisan campaign to enact sweeping reforms to campaign finance, conflict of interest and transparency laws. Silver is a veteran election and media...
View ArticleBob Edgar
Bob Edgar is the president and CEO of Common Cause, a national nonpartisan, non-profit “citizens” lobby working to make government at all levels more honest, open and accountable, and to connect...
View ArticleDoug Kendall
Doug Kendall is a litigator, author, activist, and non-profit entrepreneur. He is the founder and President of the Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC), a think tank, law firm and action center...
View ArticleLawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Prior to rejoining the Harvard...
View Article897 Super Pac’s
Jamie Raskin discusses Citizens United and the transformation of campaign spending on Current TV, September 26, 2012.
View ArticleThe United States of ALEC
Lisa Graves joins Bill Moyer in a special report on how the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council has helped corporate America propose and even draft legislation for states across the...
View ArticleFighting ALEC
Rashad Robinson and Laura Flanders discuss Color of Change’s anti-Alec campaign, which includes lobbying corporations to withdraw support from the organization.
View ArticleFred Wertheimer
Fred Wertheimer is the Founder and President of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, organization that works to strengthen our democracy and ensure the integrity and fairness of government decisions...
View ArticleLisa Graves
Lisa is the Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, a national investigative watchdog group that launched the award-winning investigative project ALECexposed.org in 2011, and that...
View ArticleRichard Pildes
Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. He is one of the nation’s leading scholars, lawyers, and public commentators on issues...
View ArticleJamie Raskin
Jamie Raskin is a constitutional law professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, where he directs the Program on Law and Government, and a Democratic State Senator in Maryland...
View ArticleBrenda Wright
Brenda Wright is the Vice President of Legal Strategies at Demos. She has led many progressive legal and policy initiatives on voting rights, campaign finance reform, redistricting, election...
View ArticleThe Only Way to Revive Real Democracy
If we’re serious about restoring government of, by and for the people, we need to get big money out of our elections. From the Watergate era through the early 2000s, Congress and state legislatures...
View ArticleTrevor Potter
Trevor Potter is the founding President and General Counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that represents the public interest in administrative, legislative and...
View ArticleTrevor Potter on Big Money’s Election Effect
Former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter refutes the claim that money made little difference in the most expensive election in American history on Bill Moyer’s Journal, November 16th, 2012.
View ArticleThe Revolving Door from the Pentagon to the Private Sector
Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of CREW, discusses the extent of the Pentagon’s revolving door phenomenon, in which retired high-ranking generals and admirals cash in on their years of military...
View ArticleWhat a Waste of Corporate Money
The US has just gone through its most expensive election ever. The projected price tag for the 2012 federal election is expected to top $6 billion. This is no way to run a democracy. This was the first...
View ArticleDoes America hate its children?
We shouldn’t have to choose between our seniors and children — I’d rather focus on jobs and growth rather than deficit reduction, and sooner cut corporate welfare and defense spending than anything...
View ArticleRejuvenating Campaign Finance Reform
Four decades after the campaign finance reforms that followed Watergate, arguments over the role of money in politics seem increasingly tired and unproductive. We ought to build on the experience of...
View ArticleSEC Needs to Increase Corporate Political Disclosure
Waiting on the desk of Mary Jo White, the new chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is a petition (No. 4-637) demanding more clarity about corporate political spending. It has more than half...
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