US Code clearly prohibits foreign money in US elections. Citizens United v FEC opened our elections to foreign money and influence through foreign investors who now hold over 40% of all shares in US corporations. The result has been precisely what our founders feared.
We need your help to pass AB 1819
AB 1819 is in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Call your CA Assembly Member in support of AB 1819
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Sign the petition
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Read the MOVI fact sheet
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Read the author's fact sheet
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Read the Free Speech For People memo on AB 1819
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Read US Election Law
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See the sample organizational support letter
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Written Testimony from Federal Election Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub
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Written Testimony from Laurence H. Tribe (Harvard Law School)
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Written Testimony from John C. Coates IV (Harvard Law School)
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Rep. Raskin's Letter to the SEC about his federal version of this bill HR 6283
Want to know more about AB 1819? Click here to request a speaker from MOVI at your organization's next online meeting.
ENDORSERS
Free Speech For People (co-sponsor)
Money Out Voters In (MOVI) (co-sponsor)
Center for American Progress (co-sponsor)
League of Women Voters of California
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA)
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action California
California Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO
Courage California
Indivisible CA: StateStrong
Move To Amend
Sierra Club California
California Environmental Voters
California Interfaith Power & Light
Democracy Policy Network
Democracy Vouchers LA
Election Integrity Project® California
End Citizens United // Let America Vote Action Fund
Ground Game LA
Ground Swell Collective Action
Los Angeles County Democratic Party
Northern California Recycling Association
Plastic Oceans International
Plastic Pollution Coalition
San Mateo County Democratic Party
Santa Barbara County Democratic Party
The 5 Gyres Institute
The Center for Ocean Awareness, Research & Education
Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation
Working Partnerships USA