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    • Suppressed: The Fight to Vote
    • Born on Third Base – Chuck Collins
    • POTUS 1: The Next Fight for Democracy – Lawrence Lessig
    • Alexandra Chandler – Taking Big Money Out of Politics
    • How Democracies Die
    • Dark Money Film Screening and Mass. Ballot Question #2 Discussion
    • How Best to Rescue Our Representative Democracy – with Rick Hubbard
    • Candidates Forum – 3rd Congressional District, 14th Middlesex District
    • National Citizen Leadership Conference
    • The Role of Faith Communities in Times of Social Unrest
    • March for Our Lives Boston
    • The Women’s March 2018: The People Persist
    • Daring Democracy
      • ‘Daring Democracy’ Book Discussion
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Elect New Legislators

Our Winning Strategy:

  1. Select vulnerable legislators who are up for election, who have voted for unpopular bills,  are clearly influenced by big money, and are not supporting democracy reforms.
  2. Identify candidates not beholden to Wall Street who will support our goals, energize people and give them hope. Find ways to support these candidates both with your time and money. Both of the major U.S. political parties are entrenched in big money and are having trouble changing. We have to show them that publicly funded candidates can indeed win and take their seats.

Some Encouraging Research

There is some good news from important research from Joshua Kalla (University of California) and David Broockman (Stanford University). Using data from 49 field experiments they found that the best estimate of the effects of advertising and campaign contact (mail, phone, canvassing) on Americans’ candidates choices in general elections is zero. In other words, virtually all the millions of dollars spent on television advertising in the general elections accomplishes very little, other than making the television networks richer. They did find that “campaigns are able to have meaningful persuasive effects in primary and ballot measure campaigns, when partisan cues are not present”.

This is good news for candidates that do not take large donations from billionaires, corporations and Super PACS. It means they can run effective campaigns with less money and still win.

Some Ideas for Taking Action:

  • Identify vulnerable candidates in your state and publicize that information
  • Turn your democracy group into a campaign team to support a movement candidate
  • Run for office
  • Encourage people to ignore television ads, particularly those that are negative
  • Write letters to the editor
  • Arrange local debates
  • Endorse a candidate
  • Invite your endorsed candidate to speak at an event that you organize
  • Encourage your friends and family members to register and vote (see Election 2020 page)

Groups to Align With:

Our Revolution, Rock the Vote, Brand New Congress, Indivisible, Justice Democrats, Swing Left, Run for Something, Wellstone, Working Families Party

Pass the 28th Amendment

Our Mission


Reclaim Our Democracy is an inclusive, collaborative, multi-partisan movement to limit and control the corrupting influence of money on elections and politicians.

Our goal is to reclaim our democratic rights as citizens of the United States of America to have a government that truly represents and supports the needs and desires of all people.

Editorial

Our Country’s Future

Election 2020 – Please Ask Your Friends and Family to Vote!

Find a wealth of state specific voter information at the Fair Elections Center.

Check your voter registration, register to vote, get your absentee ballot, locate your polling place, and get election reminders at Vote.org.

Additional voting information.

Events

Reclaim Our Democracy with Emma’s Revolution Some of the music from the Oct. 24 concert is available on their Facebook page

The Fall Elections: Voter Access, Safety and Security, with U.S. Representative Lori Trahan; video now available.

Democracy in Chains, with Duke Professor Nancy MacLean, Friday, March 6. Video now available!

Inside Beacon Hill: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, with State Representatives Tami Gouveia and Jon Hecht, held Tuesday, Jan. 14, at First Parish in Concord. Video now available!

How Democracies Die video of presentation now available

To view a calendar with Massachusetts area events related to Campaign Finance Reform and the passage of the 28th Amendment, visit our calendar/events page.

Facebook

To read more about current news and events regarding campaign finance reform and the corrupting influence of money in politics, and engage in online conversation, please click here to visit the Reclaim Our Democracy Facebook group page.

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