Hi, Thom Hartmann here, author and progressive political commentator. Many of you know me from the #1 rated progressive nationally syndicated radio show, the Thom Hartmann Program.

I'm also a long time supporter of Move to Amend!
Please join with me in supporting their work to end corporate personhood and get big money out of politics.

This effort is more important than ever before. We will witness in 2025 much more blatant and intense schemes to capture the government and culture by corporations and billionaires to increase their power and profit. Resistance to single corporate assaults to individuals, communities and the environment will be important going forward in what will be a climate of attacks on marginalized groups and mass uprisings of people’s movements, and the increasingly corrupt and unjust neoliberal/conservative establishment that I report on daily. 

However, equally, if not more, important, will be widening and deepening educating and mobilizing toward fundamental solutions like the We the People Amendment that increase people power over corporate power and the corrupting influence of money in politics.

As we near the end of 2024, we reflect on all the work we've accomplished together and look forward to the challenges and victories ahead in our shared struggle to end corporate rule.

Read about our 2024 Accomplishments and more!

Affiliate Spotlight: A Steady Commitment to Change

As we reflect on the tireless efforts of Move to Amend’s network of activists, one group stands out for its remarkable accomplishments over the past year: the Minnesota Move to Amend State Network. While the national conversation has largely focused on election cycles and the immediate political landscape, this Minnesota-based team has quietly yet powerfully laid the groundwork for long-term systemic change—gathering 65 Pledges to Amend from candidates—the most of any affiliate group. With this impressive achievement, they have set a high bar for grassroots movements everywhere, proving that when communities unite with a shared purpose, they can drive monumental change.

A whopping 16 billion dollars were spent on the 2024 election cycle this past year. Our previous election laws served as little more than cruel jokes as wealthy megadonors such as Elon Musk were able to curry favor and openly buy influence by pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Super PACs and other forms of dark money.

It is genuinely difficult for the average person to imagine just how much money 16 billion dollars is - and for what? Are we as a country better off for spending all that money? Did our donations "save democracy" as DNC fundraisers were to have you believe? Considering where we are now, the better question may be - isn't it time we put a stop to this nonsense?