Problem: Our federal government is failing to meet the needs of the people and failing to adequately address the major issues we are facing including a global pandemic, climate change, escalating economic inequality, and providing equal rights for all. Our democracy is not working.
Most Americans Want:
Instead We Have:
Solution: We Need to Reclaim Our Democracy!
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Build a powerful nation-wide democracy movement – We have made significant progress on this objective over the past four years.
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Support and elect new members of congress – The 2020 elections presented us with the biggest opportunity we have had to reclaim our democracy.
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Fix the broken election system
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Pass a 28th Amendment to overturn Supreme Court decisions that have enabled big money to control our government
“It is time to return power to the people and get big money out of politics.”
— Former Congressman Walter Jones, Republican, 3rd District of North Carolina
“The biggest problem in Congress is money.”
— Congressman Jim McGovern, Democrat, 2nd District of Massachusetts
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” – U.S. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
To learn more about how the country got to this point, and what you can do about it, please read:
“Relationship moves at the speed of trust. Social change moves at the speed of relationship.” – the Weave project, Aspen Institute
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