Act Now

• Click here to demand that Congress pass HR1 – sweeping legislation for serious pro-democracy reform.
• Over 100,000 have signed a petition telling their politicians to stop taking money from the NRA
• Sign up your organization  to be part of the Democracy Initiative
• Get money OUT of politics by getting involved with  Wolf PAC, All of Us , Justice Democrats, Represent.Us (check out their Unrig the System Summit)
• Visit the Action Page of Let America Votes to help lead the fight for voting rights
• Fight to protect our information from powerful corporations:
  Use their tool to find small businesses in your state, then tweet at, write to, or even visit them to ask that they sign a letter in support of net neutrality. And if you own a small business, you can sign the letter yourself here.
• Urge Congress to Support the Automatic Voter Registration Act!

Educate Yourself

• Dollarocracy, John Nichols and Robert J. McChesney, The Nation
• The Koch Brothers Get Their Very Own Secretary of State, John Nichols, The Nation
• In the Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the Koch Brothers’ Campaign Becomes Overt, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
• Author Jane Mayer on How the Koch Brothers Have Changed America, Jane Mayer, Rolling Stone
• The Menendez trial revealed everything that’s gone wrong with US bribery law, Dylan Scott, Vox
• House Republican: my donors told me to pass the tax bill “or don’t ever call me again”, Vox
• Inside the Koch Brothers Toxic Empire, Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone Magazine
• A new study shows how voter-ID laws decreased turnout among African-American and Democratic voters, Ari Berman, The Nation
• Stacked Deck: How the Racial Bias in Our Big Money Political System Undermines Our Democracy and Our Economy, Adam Lioz, Demos
• WATCH: Three Things You Didn’t Know About Money in Politics, Heather McGhee, Robert Reich Facebook Show
• WATCH: Corruption is Legal in America, Mansur Gidfar, Represent.us
• WATCH: The New Poll Tax, Robert Reich, Inequality Media

In the News

• House Democrats Introduce Their Sweeping New Reform Bill, Paul Blumenthal, The Huffington Post
• Jeff Merkley Proposes a Radical Fix for What Ails America: Actual Democracy, John Nichols, The Nation
• Ohioans Just Voted to End Gerrymandering – And More States Are Lining Up Behind Them, Josh Silver, Represent.Us
• Special interests like U.S. Sugar betting big on Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture race, Tampa Bay Times
• Net neutrality advocates freak out as lobbyists pull rug from California’s draft net neutrality law, Kieren McCarthy, The Register
• Congress Took $101 Million in Donations from the ISP Industry — Here’s How Much Your Lawmaker Got, T.C. Sottek and The Center for Responsive Politics, The Verge
• Never forget how much money Comacst, Verizon, and AT&T spent to crush net neutrality, Chris Mills, BGR