Forever Chemicals. Forever Corporate Rule
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
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.
Affiliate & Advocate Spotlight - July 2026
Affiliate & Advocate Spotlight: The People Behind the Movement
Movements aren't built by organizations alone—they're built by people willing to show up.
During 7 Days in DC, we were reminded that the strength of Move to Amend has always been the incredible community of affiliates, advocates, volunteers, and allies who give their time, talents, and hearts to this work.
Read moreDemocracy Is Not for Sale - So Why Is the Supreme Court Selling It?
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Another day. Another Supreme Court decision that pushes America further down the road toward government of and for the oligarchs. In National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, the Court once again strengthened a campaign finance doctrine built on one of the most absurd legal fictions ever embraced by the judiciary: that spending money to influence elections is the equivalent of free speech. Let's call that what it is - a doctrine that gives those with the most money the loudest voice. A billionaire can spend millions. A multinational corporation can spend millions more. The rest of us get one vote and hope someone is listening. This isn't political equality. It's legalized inequality. The Court continues to build on the devastation wrought by Citizens United, moving us further from a democracy where every citizen has an equal voice and closer to one where wealth alone determines political power. Every new crack in campaign finance law widens the gap between ordinary Americans and the interests that can afford armies of lobbyists, lawyers, consultants, and political operatives. And this decision isn't happening in a vacuum. At the same time, the Trump administration is threatening to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal homeland security funds from states unless they adopt a sweeping set of election changes which would make voting more difficult for some eligible Americans and further concentrate political power. Whether it's weakening campaign finance safeguards or reshaping election rules, the cumulative effect is the same: democracy becomes less accountable to We the People. Campaign finance law isn't merely about campaign finance. It influences every issue that impacts our lives. From healthcare - to education, from affordable housing- to a livable environmental, from income inequality to a burgeoning militarized for-profit immigration camps - we are witnessing the extraction of all that is necessary for life, liberty and pursuits of happiness. The winners: those who already have extraordinary wealth and extraordinary access. Move to Amend has been sounding the alarm for years: corporations are not people, and money is not speech. Until we reject the idea that writing bigger checks is the same as exercising constitutional rights, our elections will remain vulnerable to domination by concentrated wealth. This is bigger than one Court case. Bigger than one administration. Bigger than one election. It is about whether democracy belongs to the people- or whether it has become another commodity that can be bought, sold, and controlled. Congress has the power to begin changing this—but only if they hear from us. Tell your representative to support the We the People Amendment (H.J.Res. 54) and help restore a government accountable to people, not concentrated wealth. |
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Declare Independence from Corporate Rule part 4
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?
America Is Long Overdue for Another Amendment Era
American history moves in waves.
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Every few generations, the contradictions at the center of the country become too large to ignore. Institutions lose legitimacy. Public trust collapses. Economic inequality grows unbearable. Political systems stop responding to ordinary people. Social unrest spreads. And eventually, organized movements force the nation to confront structural problems that cannot be solved with small reforms or partisan reshuffling. Those are the moments when constitutional amendment eras emerge. |
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Affiliate & Advocate Spotlight - June 2026
As Move to Amend supporters prepare for the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and our upcoming Week of Action, one thing is clear: the movement for authentic self-government is alive and growing in communities across the country.
Read moreThis July 4th: Declare Independence from Corporate Rule
Two hundred and fifty years ago, Americans gathered in town squares, churches, taverns, and public spaces to debate a revolutionary idea: that people have the right to govern themselves.
Today, we are still having that conversation.
Corporations spend billions influencing elections. Billionaires dominate public policy. Corporate lobbyists write legislation. Private interests shape everything from healthcare and housing to war, climate policy, media, and the economy.
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Move to Amend is inviting supporters across the country to help launch a modern Declaration of Independence from Corporate Rule
