Wow, what a powerful start to our week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago! As we close out Day 1, we want to share the exciting highlights and invite you to join us for the remaining days of action and advocacy.

Our presence was unmistakable today. Move to Amend members turned heads and sparked conversations with dramatic visual statements by wearing robes adorned with corporate logos, symbolizing the ultra-corporate-friendly Supreme Court. Furthermore, one of our co-directors also portrayed a character from The Handmaid’s Tale, highlighting the ongoing attacks on women’s rights. 

We are pleased to share a summary of the survey that 506 of you recently completed.

The complete results will be reviewed and incorporated into our Board and Co-Directors retreat discussions beginning today in Chicago.

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This month, we are thrilled to highlight the incredible efforts of our MTA Alaska group and the ongoing initiatives to revive our presence in Chicago. Both regions are playing pivotal roles in advancing our mission and exemplifying the spirit of grassroots activism.

We are thrilled to invite you to join Move to Amend in Chicago from August 18-22, 2024, for a series of powerful events at the Democratic National Convention.

This is a crucial moment for our movement, and we need your presence to amplify our message of putting people over corporate rule!

This year's convention presents an unprecedented opportunity to bring our voices directly to the heart of political discourse. We will be there to remind our leaders and fellow citizens that real change starts with us—We the People.

Learn How You Can Participate! 

We have an urgent call to action for you: the August recess for Congress officially starts today, Friday, August 2nd. That means you can request a meeting while they are back in their districts!

Find out why the August Recess is Critical...

The uprising of organized labor over the past year has yielded several impressive victories that have improved the lives of workers. Hollywood writers and actors, UPS workers and United Auto Workers at the Big 3 automakers all won significant concessions. Organized workers continue to be active with 182 labor actions having taken place in 242 locations so far in 2024.

At Move to Amend, we are dedicated to ensuring that corporations and other artificial entities do not hold Constitutional rights, and that campaign spending can be regulated to limit the influence of money in politics. Our Pledge to Amend campaign seeks commitments from candidates for public office to support these crucial goals.

There are growing problems with what we call our democratic republic. They go far beyond the concerns of a majority of voters over the mental and physical “fitness” of the aging Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

                     
Photo-illustration by Alex Cochran. Source: Getty.

We've never had an authentic democracy or democratic republic since the founding of our nation. However, our institutional democracy has become increasingly deaf, blind, forgetful, confused and immobile.  

The political landscape is shifting rapidly. Just last month, the Presidential debate dominated headlines, but recent events have shifted our focus to more urgent issues. This email was originally about last month's Presidential debate in Atlanta, but so much has happened in our political circus since then that it seems irrelevant to the current conversations taking place. However, the intended message remains the same: this election and these recent Supreme Court decisions have laid bare to the average voter the sorry state our so-called democracy finds itself in.

It has become clear that no part of our duopoly, whether Republican or Democrat, is coming to save us from the menace of political corruption and capitalist profiteering. And so, we must come to save ourselves.