end citizens united

i am converting this to all efforts to overturn the ruling

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4,519 views Premiered Dec 22, 2025 #EdwinEisendrath #TiffanyMuller #EndCitizensUnited

In this conversation, Edwin frames the moment as a shift from defensive outrage to offensive reform, pressing the idea that corruption has finally become tangible enough to mobilize people who usually tune it out. Tiffany Muller sharpens that case by tracing a direct line from Citizens United to today’s lived consequences—sky-high election spending, collapsing transparency, and policy outcomes that consistently favor wealth over voters. Her argument insists that corruption isn’t just about excess money, but about who gets to decide and who is locked out entirely. By grounding democratic reform in concrete examples—climate paralysis, drug pricing, tax policy—she reframes it as a prerequisite for solving any other problem. The result is a demand not just for outrage, but for structural change that restores power to people rather than donors. Join the Lincoln Square community on Substack today for unparalleled insights, expert commentary, and news from your favorite pro-democracy voices. Subscribe for free at: https://lincolnsquare.media---Subscribe to Lincoln Square on YouTube: / @lincolnsquaremedia

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September 17th, 2025

End Citizens United Action Fund Applauds Reintroduction of Citizens Over Corporations Amendment to Overturn Disastrous Citizens United Decision

WASHINGTON, DC —Tiffany Muller, president of End Citizens United Action Fund, released the following statement in response to Senator Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) reintroduction of the Citizens Over Corporations Amendment—a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. FECand rein in unlimited campaign spending by corporations and special interests groups. The amendment is co-sponsored by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), with a companion bill introduced in the House by Representatives Joe Neguse (D-CO), Jim McGovern (D-MA), and Summer Lee (D-PA).

“Citizens United has turned our democracy into a government that serves the ultra-wealthy,” said ECU Action Fund President Tiffany Muller.“Political spending by billionaires has surged an astonishing 160-fold since the 2010 Supreme Court decision, and working families are paying the price like never before as self-enriching politicians bankroll tax breaks for their biggest donors. Senator Schiff’s amendment is a bold and commonsense step to reclaim government for the people. We applaud his leadership to challenge the billionaire class, fight corruption in Washington, and get Big Money out of politics.”

The Citizens Over Corporations Amendment would:

Ensure the ability of Congress or the States to propose reasonable viewpoint-neutral limitations on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections;
Distinguish between natural persons and corporations or other artificial entities created by law, including by allowing Congress or the State to prohibit such entities from spending money to influence elections;
Allow - but not require - public financing of campaigns when states choose to enact such laws; and
Take further steps to protect the freedom of the press.

Reach our team at inbox@endcitizensunited.org

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https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation

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Live-streamed on August 6, 2025. Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford and publisher of On Data & Democracy , Adam Bonica joins us to discuss his piece The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine.

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Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in Politics

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Jeff Mangan

Craig Holman

Ph.D., Government Affairs Lobbyist, Public Citizen

Founder

A lifelong Montanan, Jeff served as Montana's 12th Commissioner of Political Practices. Dedicated to public service, Mangan has championed transparency and ethical leadership at every level of government.

Rob Jackson

Professor at the New York University School of Law & former commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Marc Racicot

Former Republican governor of Montana and former chairman of the Republican National Committee

Tiffany Muller

President, End Citizens United

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Timeline of Senator Mitch McConnell’s Hypocrisy on Corporate America’s Role in Politics - End Citizens United | We the People, Not "We the Wealthy"

Timeline of Senator Mitch McConnell’s Hypocrisy on Corporate America’s Role in Politics

Apr 06, 2021

It’s no secret that Senator Mitch McConnell loves corporations. Whether it’s cutting corporate taxes at the expense of middle and working class families or holding COVID relief hostage because of the lack of corporate carve outs, McConnell has been corporate America’s biggest cheerleader. He’s made it his life work to grant corporations unfettered access and influence over our democracy in return for their financial support. But now, with some corporations opposing Republican efforts to erect barriers to voting, McConnell is having a sudden change of heart about their ability to speak out on public matters.

“After decades of advocating for corporate personhood and speech, Senator McConnell now wants corporations silenced if they’re critical of his party. He knows corporations are not people—that’s why he’s so quick to silence them,”said End Citizens United President Tiffany Muller. “He only considers them ‘people’ when cashing their checks and watching their dark money ads in support of his campaign of voter suppression and gridlock.”

Below is a timeline of McConnell’s comments on corporate speech over the last 25 years:

“In fact, our country is a seething cauldron of special interests. It is entirely American. It is entirely appropriate. It is exactly what Americans should do, is to ban together to oppose those they don’t like, to support those they do. All of that, of course, should be disclosed and the public should make its own decision.” Roll Call campaign finance reform forum, 16:55, [1/9/97]

“The terms of art bandied about in the reform debate – spending limits, PAC limits, independent expenditure limits, issue advocacy regulations, soft money – are all euphemisms for speech and participation. These are the means by which Americans participate in our democracy.” Campaign finance reform opposition press conference, 6:16, [3/14/97]

“With private interests pushed to the sidelines, the only voices lawmakers could be expected to respond to would be the self-appointed tribunes of the public interest. Private interests would end up with minimal influence on the direction of public policy, and the odds of people running toward public sector solutions would increase dramatically.” Office of Sen. Mitch McConnell, [6/15/12]

“All these efforts are for the purpose of limiting the ability of those engaged in private enterprises – or certain disfavored private groups or associations – to influence the direction of our country by participating in the electoral process. The goal is to hermetically seal off Congress from anyone engaged in the private economy or in certain kinds of advocacy, for that matter, outside the public sector.” Office of Sen. Mitch McConnell, [6/15/12]

“Now, it’s important to remember that one of the things that makes effective the harassment and intimidation tactics I’ve described is their selectivity. There aren’t exactly a lot of folks running to the ramparts to defend oil company executives and hedge fund managers. But we all need to understand something: the minute we allow ourselves to be convinced that some people stand outside the protections of the First Amendment, we’re all in trouble.” Office of Sen. Mitch McConnell, [6/15/12]

“But there’s another element to these efforts that’s less widely understood, but that I believe is essential to understanding why it is that liberals have been working so hard to regulate political speech over the past four decades. It involves the great assumption behind all of their campaign finance efforts: that the collision of private interests with politics is somehow inherently corrupting.” Office of Sen. Mitch McConnell, [6/15/12]

“So all Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech…We now have, I think, the most free and open system we’ve had in modern times.” The Nation, [8/26/14]

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:{:{“Our private sector must stop taking cues from the Outrage-Industrial Complex. Americans do not need or want big business to amplify disinformation or react to every manufactured controversy with frantic left-wing signaling…From election law to environmentalism to radical social agendas to the Second Amendment, parts of the private sector keep dabbling in behaving like a woke parallel government. Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order. Businesses must not use economic blackmail to spread disinformation and push bad ideas that citizens reject at the ballot box.” Office of Sen. Mitch McConnell, [04/05/21]}:

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house Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) financial disclosure forms — in which he didn't even disclose a personal checking or savings account — have prompted an anti-corruption watchdog group to file an ethics complaint against the new speaker.

The Daily Beast reported that End Citizens United's new ethics complaint includes allegations of Johnson failing to disclose certain gifts, overlooking blind spots in his spouse's income, making "contradictory" financial statements relating to his work as an attorney for far-right groups, and various other "inconsistencies." End Citizens United president Tiffany Muller said the American public deserves to know whether the new speaker of the House has financial conflicts of interest.

"It’s laughable to believe that the person leading government funding negotiations doesn’t have a reportable savings or retirement account," Muller told the Beast. "But beyond his own potential financial mismanagement, failing to disclose travel and his spouse’s sources of income is against the law and the Office of Congressional Ethics must investigate and hold him accountable."

In the six-page complaint, End Citizens United found evidence of Johnson failing to report an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel in February of 2020 paid for by the 12 Tribes Film Foundation that cost a total of $17,950. Congressional ethics reporting laws dictate that all travel costing more than $415 needs to be reported. Johnson also accepted another paid trip by young Earth creationist group Answers in Genesis to Williamstown, Kentucky in 2022 that exceeded the $415 threshold.

"These blatant omissions are clear violations of federal law and show a disregard for the Act’s important transparency goals that allow the public to know what groups have privately funded the Speaker’s travel," End Citizens United wrote.

The group also pointed to Johnson's lack of disclosure of his spouse's income from her LLC, Onward Christian Counseling Services, which was founded in 2017 and remains active as of 2023. According to the complaint, the company's website was recently taken down, though the archived version shows that Johnson's wife advertised "confidential, biblically based individual, marriage and family counseling to the people of Northwestern Louisiana."

Federal law concerning statements submitted to government agencies states that anyone who "falsifies, conceals, or covers up material facts, "makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation" could be fined and/or jailed for up to five years.

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A political action committee has put seven figures behind a campaign to call out Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz for his rumored ties to New Jersey.

According to The Hill, End Citizens United's $2 million advertisement is scheduled to air August 2 - 13 on television broadcasts, multiple cable networks, and streaming platforms in the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg, Penn. areas.

In the political ad, Oz —who is mockingly called "Jersey Oz— is being accused of "taking money from the pharmaceutical industry," the news outlet reports.

In a statement to The Hill, Tiffany Muller, president of the political action committee, offered details about the campaign. “Mehmet Oz is as New Jersey as listening to Bruce Springsteen while driving on the parkway to go down to the shore. That’s exactly why he’s out-of-touch with hardworking Pennsylvanians,” Muller said in her statement.

The End Citizen's United ad is the latest to air attacking Oz. A number of other Democrats, including Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman, have aimed to portray the New Jersey-born doctor as a carpetbagger.

Per The Hill, Fetterman has repeatedly mocked Oz over the issue and even flew an airplane banner along the beaches in South Beach. The banner read, “'HEY DR. OZ, WELCOME HOME TO NJ! ❤ JOHN' and enlisting the help of former 'Jersey Shore' cast member Nicole 'Snooki' LaValle.'"

However, Oz's campaign team has released a statement criticizing Fetterman's political tactics.

“Dr. Oz is busy criss-crossing the commonwealth and meeting with voters hearing how crime and inflation is impacting their lives, while John Fetterman is sitting behind his computer screen from his basement bunker refusing to meet with Pennsylvanians,” said Brittany Yanick, a spokesperson for the Oz campaign.

While the upcoming Pennsylvania Senate race is expected to be close, the RealClearPolitics polling average still projects Fetterman leading by approximately 8.7 points.

Watch the ad below or at this link.

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as Mitch McConnell and his Senate allies strip protections against foreign agents purchasing our presidents outright, the battle against the other major pillars of Republican corruption continues. McClatchy reports that two of the most formidable voting rights groups in the nation, End Citizens United and Let America Vote, are now combining into one joint PAC.

End Citizens United is a high-profile group formed in response to, of course, the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that vastly expanded the ability of corporations to finance their own efforts to elect their preferred U.S. lawmakers. They have spent heavily to oppose ballot initiatives aimed at stemming the new influx of dark money and to boost the efforts of candidates that support them. Let America Vote's focus has been on fighting Republican voter-suppression efforts, unleashed across Republican-held states by the court's separate decision ending the Voting Rights Act’s "preclearance" requirements for states and counties with proven records of violating the voting rights of their (nonwhite) citizens. Let America Vote was the product of former Missouri Democratic Senate nominee Jason Kander, who, McClatchy reports, will cease to hold an official position in the new, combined PAC.

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/group-of-50-legal-scholars-call-for-28th-amendment-to-overturn-citizens-united-decision-a-root-cause-of-dysfunction-in-our-political-system

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Group of 50 legal scholars call for 28th Amendment to overturn Citizens United: ‘A root cause of dysfunction in our political system’

Written by Alex Henderson September 18, 2019

When liberals and progressives cite former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s best and worst rulings of the Barack Obama era, they typically praise his support for same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges while slamming him for his support for unlimited corporate donations in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission. The U.S. Supreme Court obviously isn’t going to be overturning Citizens United anytime soon given its swing to the right, but a group of 50 legal experts have another idea for ending that decision: a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The legal experts, according to the Law & Crime website, have signed a joint letter they plan to release on Constitution Day that calls for a constitutional amendment ending Citizens United. Those who have signed the letter range from former Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter to Zephyr Teachout (a law professor at Fordham University in New York City) to two professors at the Harvard Law School: Lawrence Lessig and Laurence Tribe.

The letter states, “As attorneys, law professors and former judges with a wide variety of political beliefs and affiliations, we are convinced that our nation’s current election spending framework is a root cause of dysfunction in our political system and requires fundamental reform.”

Jeff Clements, an anti-Citizens United activist, discussed the campaign to end that hated decision with Law & Crime. Clements is the president of American Promise, a nonprofit that has been fighting to end Citizens United — which struck down parts of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, a.k.a. the McCain-Feingold Act, and equated large campaign donations with free speech.

Clements told Law & Crime, “The Supreme Court has really made a mess of the First Amendment with the theory that money — unlimited money — is an expression of free speech. What this amendment would do is put us back on a strong foundation of free speech for all Americans, not just those with unlimited wealth.”

Clements doesn’t view Citizens United as a victory for free speech but rather, as suppression of free speech. And he said of Citizens United opponents, “We are advocates of free speech and the First Amendment. The free speech argument is actually on our side. Most Americans have less free speech now, when money dominates the system. When money is the dominant currency of who can run for office and what candidates are taken seriously — and when the money is coming from fewer and fewer sources — we have fewer voices. Most Americans cannot participate.”

According to Clements, “What we’re trying to show is that the Constitution wasn’t finished 243 years ago.”

In Congress, a bill calling for a 28th Amendment to overturn Citizens United has been introduced by Democrat Ted Deutch and Republican John Katko in the House of Representatives and by Democrat Tom Udall in the Senate.

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