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February 19, 2015 8:12 pm | By

New Report Details Kochs’ Plan to Target Latino Voters

This op-ed by Michael Keegan, President, People For the American Way was originally published at The Huffington Post. Late last month, news broke that the network of political organizations tied to Charles and David Koch was developing plans to spend nearly a billion…
February 18, 2015 6:01 pm | By Laura Epstein

The Libre Initiative: The Koch Brothers’ New Focus on Winning Latino Voters

Today, People For the American Way released a new Right Wing Watch: In Focus report on the Libre Initiative, a right-wing organization attempting to win over Latino voters for the Republican Party. The report explores the Koch brothers’ control over…
February 13, 2015 10:02 pm | By M. Andrew

YP4 Alumni Lead Session on Building Connections Across Movements at Creating Change 2015

Last week, Young People For (YP4) staff attended the National LGBTQ Task Force’s National Conference of LGBT Equality, Creating Change. Four alumni of YP4 programs — Michigan State Representative Jon Hoadley, National Director of Black Youth Project 100 Charlene Carruthers, Deputy Managing Director of United…
February 13, 2015 8:40 pm | By Rio Tazewell

#DemandDemocracy Video Blog: Every Voice Wants to #GetMoneyOut

The issue of big money in politics is one so pervasive and complex that it requires a range of solutions to fully address it. In the sixth edition of our #DemandDemocracy video blog, Rahna Epting, chief of staff at Every…
February 11, 2015 5:38 pm | By Paul Gordon

Thursday is Test Day for Senate Judiciary Republicans

Tomorrow morning, we will learn more about how Chairman Chuck Grassley will run the Senate Judiciary Committee ... and whether Republicans will continue one of the indefensible forms of obstruction that they engaged in for six years while in the…
February 10, 2015 9:11 pm | By Paul Gordon

PFAW Releases New Report on the Right’s Efforts to Transform Religious Liberty from a Shield to a Sword

Last June, the Supreme Court gave certain for-profit corporations the right to deny women vitally important (and statutorily required) healthcare coverage that offends their employers' religious beliefs, claiming it was simply protecting the employers' religious liberty. Across the country, right…
February 9, 2015 5:54 pm | By Layne Amerikaner

President Obama Underscores His Support for an Amendment to Overturn Citizens United

In an interview with Vox released today, President Obama expressed his support for constitutional remedies to our country’s worsening money in politics problem. The president said: I would love to see some constitutional process that would allow us to actually…
February 4, 2015 7:38 pm | By Rio Tazewell

Around the Country Op-Eds Support Amendment to #GetMoneyOut

This week three opinion editorials were published in local papers in New Hampshire, New York and West Virginia calling for a 28th amendment to the Constitution to overturn Supreme Court cases like Citizens United. These op-eds are the latest in…
February 3, 2015 4:03 pm | By Lindsay

PFAW and Allies Advocate for Amendment to #GetMoneyOut in New Hampshire

PFAW activists joined with allies from Public Citizen, Open Democracy, and others last Thursday at public hearings on New Hampshire House and Senate bills calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn decisions like Citizens United. About 50 supporters of a…
January 30, 2015 10:39 pm | By Layne Amerikaner

A Victory in the Fight for Fair Trials for Undocumented Immigrants

In an important victory for fair courts and the principle that justice is available to all, an appeals court in California today issued a decision granting a new trial for an undocumented immigrant whose immigration status was revealed to jurors…
January 30, 2015 10:34 pm | By Rio Tazewell

#DemandDemocracy Video Blog: Businesses Against Big Money in Politics

Sixteen states, 600 towns and cities, dozens of nonprofit reform organizations, and more than five million Americans are not the only ones calling for a constitutional amendment to get big money out of politics. This installment of our #DemandDemocracy video…
January 30, 2015 2:14 pm | By Rio Tazewell

Five Million Strong Calling for a Constitutional Amendment

Last week PFAW, in collaboration with more than 60 partners, collected the five millionth petition signature calling for a constitutional amendment to get big money out of politics. This ambitious goal was reached just in time for the 5th anniversary…
January 29, 2015 9:54 pm | By Layne Amerikaner

PFAW Foundation Joins Amicus Brief in SCOTUS Case on Health Care Tax Subsidies

Yesterday PFAW Foundation joined the National Women’s Law Center, the law firm Hogan Lovells, and close to 70 other organizations in submitting an amicus brief in King v. Burwell, the pending Supreme Court case on tax subsidies for the Affordable…
January 29, 2015 9:48 pm | By Paul Gordon

Not Even GOP’s Own Witnesses Oppose Loretta Lynch

Today was the second and final day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Loretta Lynch's nomination to be attorney general. Today's session was devoted to witnesses invited by Republican and Democratic senators to help the committee members make the very…
January 29, 2015 3:57 pm | By Rio Tazewell

Koch Brothers Plan to Spend Nearly $1 Billion in 2016

If outside spending by wealthy special interests played a decisive role in the 2014 midterms, the 2016 presidential election is shaping up to be even worse. According to details leaked from an attendee at an annual donor meeting at a…
January 28, 2015 10:32 pm | By Peter Montgomery

National School Choice Week: PR for Privatizers?

On Wednesday morning, a roomful of school children were herded into a congressional meeting room and required to sit through an hour and a half worth of speeches by conservative Members of Congress, including House Speaker John Boehner, Sens. Ted…
January 28, 2015 8:26 pm | By Layne Amerikaner

Democracy For All Amendment to #GetMoneyOut Becomes Bipartisan Bill

On Monday the push for the Democracy For All Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment that would overturn decisions like Citizens United v. FEC and allow legislators to put reasonable limits on money in elections, became a bipartisan effort in Congress…
January 26, 2015 4:18 pm | By Ben Betz

It’s a Radical Right Red Meat Feast as 2016 GOP Primary Kicks Off with a Bang

Over the weekend, likely Republican 2016 presidential candidates stepped up to the microphone at two extremist events to throw red meat at their Radical Right base and prove their ultraconservative bona fides in the run up to primary season. Here’s…
January 22, 2015 4:21 pm | By Rio Tazewell

Democracy Reform Package Reintroduced in the 114th Congress on Citizens United 5th Anniversary

On Wednesday (1/21), at a press event on Capitol Hill, Congressional leaders focused on solutions to the money in politics problem by announcing the reintroduction of a host of pro-democracy bills in the 114th Congress, including small donor empowerment, disclosure, and a…
January 22, 2015 2:32 pm | By Ben Betz

Unbelievable Nerve – Republicans Finally Discover Income Inequality

Have you noticed the Republicans’ latest central talking point -- evident in their multitude of goofy “responses” to the president’s State of the Union Address this week? It’s this: America has a major problem with income inequality, the middle class…