INSPIRATIONAL?

Lucas,

Wow.

The response to my update last week on our campaign to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has been, in a word, extraordinary.

Hundreds of Public Citizen supporters across the country donated what they could to help build on this movement's incredible momentum.

One member contributed $5,000.

Once again, you have demonstrated that you know that if we all stand together, we will get this done. And that is nothing short of inspirational.

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My earlier update about the campaign is copied below in case you missed it. We really have made great progress.

And the progress keeps coming. Just this past Thursday, the California State Assembly passed a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

That's the power of your support.

Thank you.

Robert

Lucas,

It's paying off.

Ever since the Supreme Court issued its perverse ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission a little over two years ago, all of us have been working together to protect our democracy from a hostile corporate takeover.

When we started, many people and pundits thought our movement for a constitutional amendment to overturn the ruling was a pipe dream. Now it's mainstream.

The momentum you've helped generate just keeps growing:

Last week, on Super Tuesday, voters in 65 cities and towns throughout Vermont passed resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment. Public Citizen activists are leading this unprecedented push in the Green Mountain State.

Public Citizen activists in California, Maryland and Massachusetts are well on their way to passing similar measures.

We just launched Resolutions Week, an organizing drive to get hundreds of local resolutions passed in the second week of June. In its first few days, activists in more than 1,000 communities from coast to coast signed up.

We need to build on this momentum right here, right now. This is the time.

We need to raise $100,000 and make Resolutions Week the next quantum shift in the campaign. Take another step in your commitment to the fight against corporate power with a generous donation to Public Citizen today.

Ever since the ruling was handed down, surveys have consistently shown that 4 of 5 Americans think Citizens United was wrongly decided.

What's changed -- and what we can all take credit for -- is that people are mobilizing with resounding impact:

Dozens of representatives, including Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, have joined our call for an amendment.

Twenty-four senators -- very nearly a quarter of the Senate -- support an amendment.

President Obama recently endorsed the idea of a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

This is the unique power you have as part of Public Citizen -- the melding of principled commitment, on-the-ground activism and creative political strategy into a force that time and again transforms the seemingly impossible into reality.

The plutocrats and their Super PACs are waging a full-blown assault on the functioning of our democracy. We're looking at a scenario where perhaps a few dozen giant corporations and hyper-wealthy individuals exert a decisive influence over our elections.

I know you are outraged. Let that outrage incite you to action.

I have faith in our country. I have faith in our people. And I know what great things Public Citizen and its supporters can achieve when we all pull together -- we've done it countless times before.

Thanks to Public Citizen activists and supporters like you, we've made dramatic gains in the fight to prevent the sell-off of our democracy.

But we have a long way still to go.

This is going to take all of us, each doing everything we can do.

So please, contribute to Public Citizen today.

Together we can do this.

photograph of Robert Weissman

Thank you,

Robert Weissman
President, Public Citizen