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Chuck DarwinMove to Amend Labor Caucus Wednesday, January 29 1:00 pm PT / 4:00 pm ET <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23MoneyIsNotSpeech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23CorporationsAreNotPeople" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a> <a href="https://c.im/@cdarwin/113846268531452249" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">c.im</a> <a href="https://c.im/@cdarwin/113846268531452249" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im)</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://mastodon.social/@daedalean" class="u-url mention">@daedalean</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/@marynelson8" class="u-url mention">@marynelson8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@xs4me2" class="u-url mention">@xs4me2</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a>Support the Move to Amend <a href="https://c.im/@cdarwin/109338515775957151" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://c.im/@cdarwin/109338515775957151</a>

Chuck DarwinCampaign operatives and donors have long deployed creative accounting to mask the flow of money into politics. But in the decade and a half since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision paved the way for unlimited spending on political advertising, it has become particularly difficult to follow the big-money flow in the weeks before Election Day, despite the majority opinion’s assertions that “prompt disclosure” of political spending would enable voters “to make informed decisions.”“Now it’s sort of undeniable that the court was wrong with those predictions,” said Ian Vandewalker, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice, a progressive nonprofit that works to reduce the influence of big money in politics. Mr. Vandewalker published an analysis this week of the increase in difficult-to-trace funding to super PACs. “The ability to hide funding for those types of things is attractive for people who want to engage in dirty tricks,” he said in an interview. If done effectively, operatives can hide the provenance of this money until after the election is called — or perhaps forever.Here is how: Major donors give to so-called dark-money organizations, usually nonprofit groups that are not obligated to disclose their donors. Those groups then give the money to super PACs, which are technically required to disclose their donors. But the trail goes cold when those super PACs list dark-money organizations, instead of individual donors. <a href="https://c.im/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#darkmoney</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/overturncitizensunited" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#overturncitizensunited</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/us/politics/dark-money-presidential-campaign.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/us/politics/dark-money-presidential-campaign.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Chuck DarwinAn international <a href="https://c.im/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fascist</a> movement — led by Russia, Hungary, and China — is on the march worldwide, and 🎯America is in its crosshairs.Case in point: Ohio Republican Senator and maximally rich dude J.D. Vance, who dresses up his Trump/Putin toadyism in elegant garb In an article for the m Financial Times, Vance recently wrote:“We owe it to our European partners to be honest: Our generosity in Ukraine is coming to an end. Europeans should regard the conclusion of the war there as an imperative. ... And Europe should consider how exactly it is going to live with Russia when the war in Ukraine is over.”⭐️The watershed moment in American history that led to this was when five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court ruled in <a href="https://c.im/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CitizensUnited</a> (and three other decisions) that 🔥bribing US politicians is no longer bribery or political corruption 🔥 but, instead, is merely “First Amendment-protected free speech.” The cash that rightwing billionaires, foreign governments, and corporations are stuffing into corrupt politicians’ pockets isn’t 💰“money,” the rightwing majority on the Court ruled: it’s First Amendment protected “free speech.” Those corporations aren’t (to paraphrase John Marshall) lifeless, soulless creations of the law: they are, Republicans on the Court said, 🥺“persons” with a constitutional right to free speech.👉All this made us ripe for the picking by foreign governments that see the very ongoing existence of American democracy as a threat to the legitimacy of their own oligarchies.To the point of Vance and Greene, Justice John Paul Stevens, in his Citizens United dissent, warned us that his five conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court had not only 💥thrown the door open to American billionaires and corporations corrupting our politicians 💥and political process: they also, he wrote, 🔥rolled out the welcome mat to foreign governments.🔥“If taken seriously, our colleagues’ assumption that the identity of a speaker has no relevance to the Government’s ability to regulate political speech would lead to some remarkable conclusions.“Such an assumption would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by ‘Tokyo Rose’ during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders.”<a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-trump-americas-new-tokyo-rose-331?r=3b1sh&triedRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-trump-americas-new-tokyo-rose-331?r=3b1sh&triedRedirect=true</a>

Chuck DarwinMove to Amend's Proposed Amendment to the Constitution <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a> <a href="https://www.movetoamend.org/amendment" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.movetoamend.org/amendment</a>

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Chuck DarwinAccountable.US found ties between Leonard Leo and the following groups or their lawyers that filed amicus briefs in the 14th amendment case: 🔸Citizens United, 🔸the Public Interest Legal Foundation, 🔸the Claremont Institute, 🔸Landmark Legal Foundation, 🔸Judicial Watch, 🔸Jones Day, 🔸Wyoming’s secretary of state Chuck Gray and 🔸America’s Future.“It’s no surprise that <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Leonard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Leo</a> is backing efforts to support Trump at the supreme court,” said Accountable.US president Caroline Ciccone. “Leo helped Trump draw up his supreme court nominee shortlist – many of whom are justices on the bench set to hear this critical case – and now, Leo’s deploying his rightwing network in support of Trump as he faces consequences for his violent insurrection. It couldn’t be clearer where Leo stands.”🔸Citizens United, a conservative group whose name is synonymous with the 2010 supreme court ruling that allows unlimited political spending by outside groups and corporations, filed a brief alongside Steven Calabresi, Leo’s fellow co-chair of the Federalist Society. Other lawyers tied to the society are signed on to the group’s brief as well.🔸The Public Interest Legal Foundation’s brief is co-filed with a man who has been featured in more than 100 Federalist Society events, and the group has received funding from groups tied to Leo. 🔸The Claremont Institute has also received funds from groups tied to Leo’s funding network, and the brief’s author wrote a book that includes a quote from Leo on the back cover and featured in society events.Leo has complimented the chairman of the 🔸Landmark Legal Foundation as a “great patriot” and “our old Federalist Society stalwart”. The 🔸Judicial Watch president is also president of the 🔸Council for National Policy, which Leo has reportedly been involved with. 🔸Jones Day, a conservative law firm whose attorneys authored an amicus brief for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has given money to the 🔸Federalist Society, and the firm is where Leo, Trump and others met to come up with a list of supreme court candidates.The lawyers who filed 🔸Wyoming secretary of state Gray’s brief include a Federalist Society contributor who’s received a fellowship from the group. 🔸America’s Future has gotten funding from a group that’s exchanged millions with Leo’s financial network. <a href="https://c.im/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#darkmoney</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LeonardLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LeonardLeo</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/darkmoney" class="u-url mention">@darkmoney</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/feb/09/leonard-leo-federalist-society-trump-ballot-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/feb/09/leonard-leo-federalist-society-trump-ballot-supreme-court</a>

Chuck DarwinGranting personhood to corporations is an absolute perversion of the principle cited in the Declaration of Independence, which explicitly states that the government of the United States was created by people and for people, and operates only by consent of the people whom it governs <a href="https://c.im/tags/corporationsarenotpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#corporationsarenotpeople</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/moneyisnotspeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#moneyisnotspeech</a><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/to-rescue-democracy-america-must" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://hartmannreport.com/p/to-rescue-democracy-america-must</a>

Chuck DarwinThe movement’s triumphs are now visible but its engine remains hidden: A billion-dollar network of groups, most of which are registered as tax-exempt charities or social welfare organizations. Taking advantage of gaps in disclosure laws, they shield the identities of most of their donors and some of the recipients of the funds. Among those who’ve been paid by the groups are leading thinkers and individuals with close personal ties to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Leonard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Leo</a> — including a whopping $7 million to a group run by a close friend and his wife. They also include a for-profit business for which Leo himself is chairman and which received tens of millions of dollars from his nonprofit network.Leo’s role as the central figure in this movement has long been known, culminating in his acquisition last year of what many believe to be the largest political donation in history. Few are aware of the extent to which the movement’s baby steps were taken in concert with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ginni" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ginni</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Thomas</a>.Two months before the <a href="https://c.im/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CitizensUnited</a> decision, but after the justices had signaled their intentions by requesting new arguments, attorney <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cleta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Cleta</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mitchell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mitchell</a> — later to play a role in Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 elections — filed papers for Ginni Thomas to create a nonprofit group of a type that ultimately benefited from the decision. Leo was one of two directors listed on a separate application to conduct business in the state of Virginia. Thomas was president. She signed it on New Year’s Eve of 2009, and Crow provided much of the initial cash. A key Leo aide, <a href="https://c.im/tags/SarahField" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SarahField</a>, would come aboard to help Thomas manage the group, which they called <a href="https://c.im/tags/LibertyCentral" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LibertyCentral</a>.<a href="https://c.im/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#darkmoney</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/clarencethomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#clarencethomas</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/samuelalito" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#samuelalito</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/abortionban" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#abortionban</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#scotus</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082</a>

Chuck DarwinWatch The Corporation - 10th Anniversary Cut Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecorporationcp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecorporationcp</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://mas.to/@Nonya_Bidniss" class="u-url mention">@Nonya_Bidniss</a> Stephen Pastis - <a href="https://c.im/tags/PearlsBeforeSwine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PearlsBeforeSwine</a> Got It right: <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporatinsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporatinsAreNotPeople</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/PearlsBeforeSwine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PearlsBeforeSwine</a> put it quite clearly. <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/@mkwadee" class="u-url mention">@mkwadee</a> <a href="https://c.im/@cdarwin/109338515775957151" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://c.im/@cdarwin/109338515775957151</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://mastodon.social/@gwaldby" class="u-url mention">@gwaldby</a> Yes<a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention">@GottaLaff</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BHFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BHFund</a> will just reincorporate under a new name, as have so many other <a href="https://c.im/tags/DarkMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DarkMoney</a> groups <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EndCitzensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EndCitzensUnited</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EndCitzensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EndCitzensUnited</a><a href="https://twitter.com/repadamschiff/status/1616106783990337537?s=12&t=EHKkVu3C5jqoNBLpq_hENg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://twitter.com/repadamschiff/status/1616106783990337537?s=12&t=EHKkVu3C5jqoNBLpq_hENg</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://mastodon.world/@gmbucks1" class="u-url mention">@gmbucks1</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/@ProPublica" class="u-url mention">@ProPublica</a> Reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.<a href="https://c.im/tags/MoneyIsNotSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoneyIsNotSpeech</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CorporationsAreNotPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporationsAreNotPeople</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MoveToAmend" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MoveToAmend</a> <a href="https://www.movetoamend.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.movetoamend.org</a>

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