Election Integrity: Getting Money Out of Politics.
Non-Negotiable #4.
The movement to get money out of politics will take a very long time. I know people don’t want to hear that. My guess is, in the best case scenario, we’re looking at 20 years. Best case. If it makes you feel any better, the movement to get money into politics took 181 years so by that measure, two decades to unravel what took 181 to build isn’t all that bad. Either we’re committed to playing the long game or not. The assholes that got us here were.

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Resources
- OpenSecrets: Money-in-Politics Timeline
- Brennan Center for Justice: Since Citizens United, a Decade of Super PACs
- Cambridge University: Dark Parties: Unveiling Nonparty Communities in American Political Campaigns
- De Gruyter: Television Advertising in the 2022 Midterms
- De Gruyter: Digital Advertising in the 2022 Midterms
- Bowdoin College: Government Scholar Michael Franz on Impact of Ads during the 2024 Election Cycle
- Brennan Center for Justice: Life Tenure for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Is a Global Oddity with Clear Costs
- Ballotpedia News: Looking ahead at 2025 ranked-choice voting legislation
- Justia: Citizens United v. FEC | 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
- Senate: Saving American Democracy Amendment
- Constitution Center: Interpretation: The Twenty-Seventh Amendment
- American Promise
- CampaignFinanceReform.org
Book Love
- Adam Jentleson: Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
- Kermit L. Hall: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
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