BlackRock, Big Tech and the Corporate Capture of the Grid
BlackRock, Big Tech and the Corporate Capture of the GridWall Street Is Buying the Grid While AI Devours the PowerElectricity powers our homes, hospitals, schools, water systems and communications. Yet this essential public service is increasingly being reshaped around the demands of Wall Street investors and some of the world’s most powerful technology corporations—at the very moment the climate crisis requires a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. This is not merely a story about artificial intelligence consuming enormous quantities of electricity. It is a story about corporate rule: who owns essential infrastructure, who influences the rules governing it, who receives the benefits and who is forced to absorb the costs. |
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The New Political Kingmakers: AI, Crypto and Gambling Corporations
The New Political Kingmakers: AI, Crypto and Gambling CorporationsCorporations are pouring millions into the 2026 elections to influence the lawmakers who will A new class of political kingmakers is emerging in the 2026 elections—and they are not voters. Artificial-intelligence, cryptocurrency and online-gambling corporations have poured approximately $344 million into efforts to influence the 2026 federal elections. Overall, corporations contributed a record $646 million to Super PACs and other political committees during the 18 months ending in June 2026—already 40 percent more than the $461 million disclosed during the entire 2024 election cycle. These totals exclude undisclosed contributions to dark-money organizations, meaning the true level of corporate political spending is likely even higher. Companies including Coinbase, Ripple, OpenAI, Anthropic and DraftKings are helping build political operations designed to shape congressional races and the regulations governing their industries |
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Trump is paying corporations billions to kill clean energy
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The Trump regime is paying German energy giant RWE $1.22 billion not to build offshore wind farms. It is the fifth such deal this year, pushing the public cost of dismantling clean-power projects toward $4 billion. This is not an isolated decision. The administration has attacked pollution limits for power plants, sought exemptions allowing industrial facilities to release more toxic chemicals, weakened methane controls, and moved to erase the scientific foundation for regulating greenhouse gases. Trump officials proudly call this the largest deregulatory campaign in American history. |
Declare Independence from Corporate Rule, Part 5: The 19th Amendment
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.
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It was not a gift from Congress, the courts, or the political establishment. Women organized for generations to force the nation to recognize a fundamental democratic truth: a government cannot claim to represent people it excludes from political power. The struggle took more than 70 years after the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, known as the launch for Women's Suffrage Movement. Suffragists marched, organized, published newspapers, delivered speeches, petitioned lawmakers, endured arrests, and faced violence and public ridicule. They challenged laws, cultural norms and institutions that treated women as dependents rather than full political participants. Their victory also demonstrated something powerful: the Constitution is not untouchable. When it protects an unjust system- or fails to protect the people- organized movements can change it. |
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August Recess Is Running Out — Contact Your Members of Congress!
August Recess Is Running Out — Contact Your Members of Congress!
Congress is still home — but not for much longer.
August Recess is underway, and this may be one of your last opportunities to catch your Representative and Senators while they are back home before Congress returns to Washington.
Read moreTHE ROOT CAUSE
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.
Affiliate & Advocate Spotlight - August 2026
People Power in Action
The strength of Move to Amend has always been our people. Across the country, affiliates and advocates are building relationships with elected officials, educating their communities, recruiting new supporters, and growing the movement for the We the People Amendment.
This month, we're celebrating just a few of the many people making a difference.
Read moreThe NDAA Is Merging America’s War Machine With Israel’s—While ignoring the will of the American People
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
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.
