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Why Should I Care?

It’s all about the money and how it is used. The reality is that most people earning over $1 million/year invest it to build and preserve their wealth, where it then grows at a rate faster than the economy and workers’ salaries. They can wind up accumulating much more wealth than they or their families will ever need. Often this money is used to protect and serve their own financial interests, and not invested in jobs, education, improving infrastructure, reducing healthcare costs, balancing the budget, or other issues important to our country.

Some of the wealthiest people in the country contribute a great deal of money to the major political parties and their candidates. This has been called legal bribery, and both major political parties are caught up in this system. It costs a huge amount of money to run for federal office, and the current federal election system essentially forces our national legislators to take the money to be re-elected. The result is that budgets and laws often favor the big contributors over the average person. Deals are being cut and nearly all of us are losing.

Large corporations and special interest groups that donate large sums to the political parties are able to advance their interests by blocking legislation or reversing executive orders intended to help the people or the planet. We now see the clear intent of our current President to decimate agencies designed to protect citizens, such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Labor; and to increase the profits of corporations in the defense and other industries in the guise of making us safer. Not surprisingly the 2017 tax reform strongly favored corporations and the rich over everyone else.

If you’re ready to do something about the current situation, click on this link: What can I do?

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.

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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.

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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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