Here's the deal on the For the People Act (S.1)
Reformist legislation like H.R.1 / S.1 is needed and long overdue because it protects and expands voting access and mitigates corruption in the short term.
But the Act has problems. Certain campaign funding provisions disadvantage small, minority political parties and should be amended or delayed and revisited.
Despite this, the For the People Act deserves your support. Contact your Senators here and ask them to become co-sponsors yet address the minority party funding issues.
And ask them to end corporate constitutional rights, because even if the For the People Act passed, there’s no way to protect it from being gutted by our corporation-friendly Supreme Court.
Only a constitutional amendment (like our We the People Amendment - soon to be reintroduced) can abolish corporate constitutional rights so that the Supreme Court cannot reinstate them. That is why it's critical that we continue to push hard for H.J.R. 48, the #WeThePeopleAmendment, to have genuine DEMOCRATIC POWER FOR THE PEOPLE.
Ask your Representative to cosponsor both!
Here's the deal on the For the People Act (S.1)
Reformist legislation like H.R.1 / S.1 is needed and long overdue because it protects and expands voting access and mitigates corruption in the short term.
But the Act has problems. Certain campaign funding provisions disadvantage small, minority political parties and should be amended or delayed and revisited.
Despite this, the For the People Act deserves your support. Contact your Senators here and ask them to become co-sponsors yet address the minority party funding issues.
And ask them to end corporate constitutional rights, because even if the For the People Act passed, there’s no way to protect it from being gutted by our corporation-friendly Supreme Court.
Only a constitutional amendment (like our We the People Amendment - soon to be reintroduced) can abolish corporate constitutional rights so that the Supreme Court cannot reinstate them. That is why it's critical that we continue to push hard for H.J.R. 48, the #WeThePeopleAmendment, to have genuine DEMOCRATIC POWER FOR THE PEOPLE.
Ask your Representative to cosponsor both!