Hawaii bill SB 2471 aims to blunt Citizens United with state limits

With Hawaii's SB 2471, a bill that would limit the amount of corporate money in elections, the state can provide a blueprint for how to prevent super PACs from spending dark money by passing state laws. Montana could be next.

Right now, government corruption is at an all-time high. Special interests are drowning out the voices of working people I'm proud to stand with End Citizens United as we fight for a stronger democracy that truly works for the people. bsky.app/profile/endc...

Day 1 End Electorate College Stack the Supreme Court End Citizens United Revoke Broadcasting licensed of all Fox news subsidiaries Freeze Trump family business and personal financial accounts Priorities are important

Here's your autopsy: billionaires spent sixty plus billion dollars on propaganda to ensure 90 million eligible voters stayed home. Refusal to address Citizens United, monopolies, income inequality and our toxic relationship with Israel converged and fucked you.

I have been banging this drum. This is a permanent solution to the gerrymandering problem. It just makes it obsolete. It should be on the list of national reforms needed to fix this mess of a country. Similar to government-funded campaigns making citizens united obsolete.

Citizens United is wrong, but even Kennedy agreed we should KNOW whose money it was:

And Citizens United which he vowed to restore. His justice department also sat on their hands while states criminalized abortion and gerrymandered voting districts. I'm old enough to remember all that shit. Plus Obama failed to defend his right to appoint a supreme court justice leaving it to Trump.

We REJECT these self-serving Corporate Democrats. We need more than two parties in the US. Abolish Citizens United. Abolish Electoral College. Defund the Supremely Corrupted Court. Redistribute the Senate for proper representation. One person-one vote. Use hand counted paper ballots.

That's right, CJ Roberts. All of us Americans are stupid. Thank God you are there to protect me from making decisions about my own body and allowing rich folks and corporations to dominate politics through Citizens United.

If John Roberts rules for Trump, the first thing we do in 2028 is right size the court, then Citizens United, then the tax code.

A Groundbreaking Way to Fight Citizens United open.substack.com/pub/democrac... In Hawaii, state lawmakers are on the verge of passing legislation that could be the domino that sets off meaningful campaign finance reform in states across the country – and that would be a big deal

State Assemblyman and New York 12 Congressional candidate @alexbores.nyc took the Political Integrity Pledge to: - Reject corporate PAC $$ - Support a stock trading ban + hold no individual stocks while in office - Support a lobbying ban for former members - Support overturning Citizens United

Citizens United (and then Hobby Lobby) couldn't have happened without the Powell Memo, then the deregulation of everything that held all this capitalistic extremism (laissez faire) back from destroying us. The SCOTUS just followed the Mandate for Leadership plot.

The court's work in this area (Buckley to Citizens United, Rucho, Holder and Callais, etc.) have been making it much harder to have representative democracy and thus elected representatives that are responsive and willing to legislate.

Hawaii Legislature just passed SB 2471 CD2 to end Citizens United in the state. Final vote will be on Friday and the to Governor Josh Green.