2021 Articles
The Citizen’s United v FEC decision by the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to campaign spending by deep-pocket anonymous donors. The following articles and reports portray the aftermath of this decision:
April 10, 2021: Is Democrats’ voting rights bill too big and doomed to fail? Even some who support it think so Salon
April 9, 2021: McConnell Has No Trouble With Corporate Speech—as Long as It Takes the Form of Bribery The Nation
April 8, 2021: The Man Who Waited 50 Years for This Moment The Atlantic
April 6, 2021: Jayapal Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Reverse Citizens United, End Corporate Personhood YubaNet.com
March 31, 2021: Republicans keep grip on Legislature despite Democratic spending spree Madison 365
March 30, 2021: How This Voting Rights Bill Could Turn the Next Election Into a Clusterf*ck The Daily Beast
March 29, 2021: Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century The New Yorker
March 25, 2021: Fact check: Breaking down 10 claims about the Democrats’ elections bill CNN
March 25, 2021: Senators spar over For the People Act OpenSecrets.org
March 24, 2021: Three False Claims About the Federal Voting Rights Bill FactCheck.org
March 24, 2021: How Small A Minority Should Be Allowed To Rule? The Daily Poster
March 22, 2021: How Congress Can Better Represent the People Brennan Center for Justice
March 22, 2021: Democrats Now Dominate Dark Money Spending. They Still Want To End It HuffPost
March 21, 2021: Our Taxes Subsidize as Much as 74 Cents of Every Dollar Donated by a Billionaire TruthOut
March 17, 2021: ‘Dark money’ topped $1 billion in 2020, largely boosting Democrats OpenSecrets.org
March 12, 2021: Conservative Groups Launch Misinformation Campaign Against HR 1 Sludge
March 11, 2021: Faces of Small Donor Public Financing 2021 Brennan Center for Justice
March 4, 2021: How Dems Can Turn Filibuster Reform Into the ‘Moderate’ Option New York Magazine
March 3, 2021: Wisconsin GOP’s Misguided Move on Amending the Constitution Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
March 3, 2021: H.R. 1: The Path to Democracy in America The American Prospect
February 28, 2021: The Only Way Democrats Will Get Anything Done Robert Reich via Eurasia Review
February 26, 2021: Big Tech Shouldn’t Be the Arbiter of Our Free Speech Rights TruthOut
February 25, 2021: The For the People Act Is Popular, Pass It Right Away Crooked Media
February 25, 2021: Ranked-choice voting bill has bipartisan support WKOW Madison
February 18, 2021: March vote set for HR 1 as both parties harden democracy reform postures The Fulcrum
February 17, 2021: With Record $14.4B Spent in 2020 Elections, Wyoming Legislators Call For U.S. Constitutional Amendment Oil City News
February 16, 2021: Is giving our drinking water legal personhood the best way to protect it? The Counter
February 12, 2021: How American Corporations Used Courts and the Constitution to Avoid Government Regulation Promarket
February 11, 2021: Most expensive ever: 2020 election cost $14.4 billion OpenSecrets.org
February 11, 2021: The Two Faces of Charles Koch Republic Report
February 6, 2021: Money in Politics, One Month Later NYTimes
February 4, 2021: COVID, Campaign Finance, and Unfair Maps Wis. Democracy Campaign
January 28, 2021: Corporate America Should Immediately Cease All Political Spending, Says Reform Coalition Sludge
January 25, 2021: If We Don’t Pass H.R. 1, ‘We Are F*cked as a Nation’ Esquire
January 22, 2021: ‘A big deal’: Democrats reintroduce Constitutional amendment to overturn one of the Supreme Court’s most damaging rulings Raw Story
January 19, 2021: Please Don’t Follow This Money NY Times
January 15, 2021: Cruz and AOC Said They Would Propose a Lobbying Ban. So What Happened? The American Prospect
January 15, 2021: The surest way to end corporate America’s love affair with money in politics CNBC
January 15, 2021: Corporate America Presses Pause on Political Contributions Center for Public Integrity
January 13, 2021: How to Fix American Democracy Brennan Center for Justice
January 12, 2021: The First Amendment doesn’t guarantee you the rights you think it does CNN
January 12, 2021: Koch Network Says It Will Evaluate Future Support for Candidates Based on Actions Leading Up to Capitol Riot Wall Street Journal
January 11, 2021: Businesses rethink political donations after Capitol siege Associated Press
January 7, 2021: Republican Attorneys General Dark Money Group Organized Protest Preceding Capitol Mob Attack Documented.net