The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Extremists On the Bench: Five Years After Citizens United, Our Rogue Supreme Court
Five "unelected, unaccountable kings in black robes" are systematically stripping Constitutional rights from real, live human beings and giving those rights to corporations and a very small group of plutocrats.
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How Corporations Are Creating a Life-Threatening Water Shortage
Nestlé is draining America's vital groundwater resources at a stunning rate – with 29 water bottling facilities across North America, it pocketed $4 billion in revenue from bottled water sales in 2012 alone.
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Supreme Court to American Public: Corporations Are Your New Gods
Corporations are our new gods. “Some animals are more equal than others.” - George Orwell, Animal Farm
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Majority Rule: Defending Democracy with a Constitutional Amendment
Working to ban the influence of money in politics, three U.S. senators already have 43 co-signers, more than 2 million names on petitions and the endorsement of 500 communities in 16 states.
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Even McCutcheon Supreme Court Case Won't Alter Money's Influence on Politics
If the court were to axe the current overall contribution limits posed in McCutcheon v. FEC, some predict that fewer than 500 people could fund all of electoral politics, creating a government run of, by and for those 500 people.
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Mayors' Conference Passes Anti-corporate Personhood Resolution
Last week the U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a U.S. Constitutional Amendment to clarify that corporations are not people and money is not speech.
