🗽Tell your Member of Congress: GET FOREIGN MONEY OUT OF U.S. ELECTIONS
Friends,
Imagine learning that a corporation spending millions to influence an American election is significantly owned by foreign investors.
That is not democracy. It is influence laundering.
Federal law bars foreign nationals from directly spending in U.S. elections. Yet a gaping loophole allows American-registered corporations with foreign ownership to spend corporate money shaping who wins, which laws pass, and whose voices are heard.
After Citizens United, dark money exploded. In the 2024 federal election cycle, groups and shell companies that concealed their donors spent more than $1.9 billion—a record, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.1 Between 2018 and 2022, at least $163 million of foreign-influenced cash flooded political races in six states alone. 2
Voters should never have to wonder whether political ads flooding their screens were financed to serve their communities—or foreign investors hiding behind an American corporate address.
People Power United is calling on Congress to pass the Get Foreign Money Out of U.S. Elections Act. The bill would prohibit political spending when one foreign investor owns at least 1% of a company’s voting shares or multiple foreign investors collectively own at least 5%.3 4
Take action » Tell Congress: GET FOREIGN MONEY OUT OF U.S. ELECTIONS
A Data for Progress poll found that 82% of voters support new limits on political spending by companies with foreign ownership.5 This issue is winnable and we must advocate for it to pass.
American democracy is not for sale.
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https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/dark-money-hit-record-high-19-billion-2024-federal-races
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iansimmons/2024/03/28/under-the-influence-how-companies-loyal-to-foreign-investors-undermine-our-elections-and-economy/
https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-raskin-introduce-legislation-to-get-foreign-money-out-of-u-s-elections-closing-citizens-united-loophole/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Agx-uvgVfHi3YywM2WvlOQnsAUgG9yio/view
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/7/10/voters-want-to-ban-foreign-corporations-from-influencing-us-elections
I have 2 Democrat Senators and 1 Democrat Congressman. I have sent so many letters to all of them. I don't know if Senator Schumer is awake but I get responses from the other two. I have been trying to tell them they need to unite with all democrat reps and become a loud strong voice, shouting from rooftops if need be. But Trump and the administration needs to be impeached. And oohrah!! to Mayor Mamdani for talking about arresting war criminal Netanyahu should he decide to go to New York for the UN meetings.
Get US corporate money out of elections.