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Defend the Vote, End Corporate Rule: Campus Voter Registration Training
Help students make their voices heard! Join Move to Amend for a Campus Voter Registration Training focused on the practical skills and resources needed to organize an effective, nonpartisan voter registration drive.

Defend the Vote, End Corporate Rule connects protecting our right to vote with building a democracy where people—not corporate power and big money—shape our future. Registering students is an essential step toward building that power, on campus and beyond Election Day.

Participants will learn how to:

• Plan and promote a campus registration effort
• Engage students in meaningful, nonpartisan conversations
• Navigate voter registration requirements and deadlines
• Recruit volunteers and build lasting campus participation
• Connect voter engagement with Move to Amend’s work to end corporate constitutional rights and money as speech

This training will help you turn civic engagement into action—and build a foundation for continued organizing after the votes are cast.
Join us and help empower the next generation of voters. Together, we can defend the vote, end corporate rule, and build a democracy that puts people first.

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October 19, 2026
7–8:30 PM ET / 6–7:30 PM CT / 5–6:30 PM MT / 4–5:30 PM PT

They’re calling for an amendment. Let’s make sure they know about ours

Join the Ultimate Civics team – Riki Ott and Lauren Smith – and Move to Amend for our first “CIVICS TALK,” a lively conversation on participatory democracy and constitutional learning.

Together, we'll share ideas for bringing the free, project-based Ultimate Civics curriculum to young people, educators, libraries, and community organizations. We'll also explore how Move to Amend affiliates can host engaging Constitution-focused activities that move beyond simply studying democracy to actively practicing it.

Come ready to:

• Discover fun, action-oriented civics lessons.
• Brainstorm ways to connect with local educators and youth groups.
• Imagine youth-led projects that bring democracy to life.

Whether you're an educator, organizer, parent, student, or simply passionate about building a democracy that works for everyone, your creativity and experience belong at the table.

Bring your ideas. Bring your curiosity. Bring a friend. Let's make engaging in democracy and learning about the Constitution bold, participatory, and impossible to ignore!

On Constitution Day, we are often invited to celebrate the document signed in Philadelphia in 1787.

But democracy requires us to ask harder questions:

Who counted as “We the People” then? Who holds power now? And what will it take to make that promise real for everyone?

Declare Independence from Corporate Rule – Part 5

Women Declared Their Political Independence—and Changed the Constitution

August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, clearing the final constitutional hurdle needed to prohibit denying citizens the vote on the basis of sex. 

THE ROOT CAUSE

Corporate power is consuming our democracy and corrupting our constitutional republic. This is the movement working to build what comes next. 

The world is running out of time.

The House has passed a staggering $1.15 trillion military authorization bill—and buried inside it is a plan to bind America’s military future even more tightly to Israel’s wars.

The Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act is not just another Pentagon spending bill. It is a blueprint for permanent war—written while weapons corporations and powerful lobbying networks wield far more influence in Washington than the people who will pay the price.

Its message is unmistakable:

The American people can oppose the wars. Congress will fund and expand them anyway.

Forever Chemicals. Forever Corporate Rule

On July 1, the Trump administration abandoned a proposed scientific risk assessment that could have led to stronger protections against spreading PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge on American farmland—even though these “forever chemicals” have poisoned water, contaminated food, killed livestock and been linked to cancer, and have been shown to damage DNA.

Follow the money.

During just the first six months of 2025, 17 corporations and industry groups connected to PFAS spent as much as $60 million lobbying the EPA and $12 million lobbying the Trump White House on PFAS-related issues. These interests included Dow, 3M, DuPont, Chemours, the American Chemistry Council and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Now protections for farmers, families and our drinking water are being discarded.

This is what corporate rule looks like: corporations manufacture toxic chemicals, spend millions influencing our government and leave ordinary people to carry the medical, emotional and financial consequences.

For my family, those consequences are deeply personal—and they are one reason I choose to work for Move to Amend. Overturning Citizens United alone is not enough. We must dismantle the entire constitutional framework that allows corporate power and concentrated wealth to override human rights, public health and our environment.

Five Constitutional Paths to Democracy Reform: Why the We the People Amendment Is the Most Comprehensive Solution

For more than a century, Americans have struggled with a fundamental question:

Who should govern our democracy—the people or concentrated wealth?

Today, that question has taken on new urgency. Billionaires spend unprecedented sums to influence elections. Corporate lobbyists write legislation. Super PACs dominate campaign fundraising. Artificial intelligence companies are becoming some of the most powerful corporations in history. Meanwhile, Americans across the political spectrum believe the political system is rigged. 

Many agree something must change.

Congress is now considering five proposed constitutional amendments that seek to address money in politics and the influence of powerful interests.

While they all recognize the problem, they offer very different solutions.

Some regulate campaign finance.

Some establish new election rules.

Only one seeks to change the constitutional doctrines that made corporate political power possible in the first place.

From Protest to Power: Building the Movement for Constitutional Change

In Part 1 of this series, we explored how resistance to concentrated economic power helped spark the American Revolution itself. In Part 2, we examined how corporations gradually acquired constitutional rights that appear nowhere in the Constitution and were never intended by its framers. In Part 3, we looked at America's amendment eras and how ordinary people have repeatedly organized to expand democracy and rewrite the rules when the existing system no longer served the public.

That history brings us to the question before us today:

How does constitutional change actually happen?

In Part 1 of this series, we explored how resistance to concentrated economic power helped spark the American Revolution itself. In Part 2, we examined how corporations gradually acquired constitutional rights that were never mentioned in the Constitution and were never intended by its framers.

Together, those histories reveal an important truth: democracy has never been static.

Throughout American history, ordinary people have repeatedly organized to expand political participation, challenge concentrations of power, and push the Constitution closer to its democratic promise.

Constitutional change is not a rare accident.

It is a recurring feature of American democracy

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?