On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.
". . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."
~Supreme Court Justice Stevens, January 2010
When: May 13, 2026, at 7 pm ET/6 pm CT/5 pm MT/ 4 pm PT
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Join the Move to Amend and the Transparent Election Initiative (TEI) team for a dynamic round table discussion introducing the Corporate Power Reset Initiative AKA Transparent Election Initiative, AKA The Montana Plan: Whatever you call it, it is a bold, state-based strategy to end the influence of corporate and dark money in our political system.
For over a decade, Move to Amend has pursued a constitutional amendment to make clear that corporations are not people and money is not speech—because only an amendment can permanently restore democratic rule to We the People.
At the same time, we’ve always recognized the value of strategic steppingstones—reforms that open space for deeper democratic transformation while keeping corporate power in check. The Montana Plan represents just such an opportunity.
This initiative harnesses the unique power of each state to define corporate privileges, offering a pathway to campaign finance reform that doesn’t silence speech but instead denies corporations the political spending powers they were never meant to have.
Let’s talk about how you can bring The Montana Plan to your community:
Format: Roundtable with TEI community partners and Move to Amend organizers followed by an Interactive Q&A
Together, we can create elections that serve people—not corporate profits.
When: May 13, 2026, at 7pm ET/ 6pm CT/ 5pm MT/ 4pmPT
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It can feel like everything is breaking at once. Rents rise faster than wages. These aren’t separate crises. They share a common root. |
Friends,
I’m writing this not just as someone who works for a more democratic and just America, but as a kid who grew up in public schools, the place where I learned how to question power, and how to find and believe my voice mattered. Much of the ideals of what I know about democracy came from classrooms funded by all of us, accountable to all of us, and open to every child who walked through the door.
Today, those very foundations are under attack.
This has not happened in a vacuum; it's by design.
For generations, peace activists—including veterans who’ve seen the reality of war firsthand—have taken to the streets to say “No more.”
And yet, the wars continue.
Because opposing war is not enough
if we don’t dismantle the system that drives it.
In this powerful reflection, Mike Ferner challenges all of us to confront a deeper truth:
We’ve become experts at fighting fires.
But what would it take to stop them from being set?
This May Day, we face a crossroads. The power we built together through organizing, solidarity, and stubborn love for democracy is being tested like never before. For years, we’ve organized, educated, and grown - hundreds of thousands of Move to Amend supporters committed to ending corporate rule and to claim real democracy. But we have yet to exercise that power in full.
That changes now.
Just this month, the Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion of your tax dollars to French oil giant TotalEnergies - not to build clean energy, but to stop offshore wind projects off our coasts. They’re pulling that money from an account not even authorized for this use, a backroom raid on the public purse that benefits fossil fuel billionaires while our communities choke on pollution and struggle to pay rising bills
At the same time, the justice Department is going after our allies at the Southern Poverty Law Center, essentially, defending groups like the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist hate groups, while ICE continues its terror campaigns in immigrant neighborhoods - breaking up families, detaining workers, and suppressing dissent with an iron hand. Authoritarian power is consolidating through economic coercion and state violence.
But people power has always been the antidote to tyranny. When ordinary people stood together and refused to cooperate with injustice, they’ve shook empires.
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