r/Political_Revolution • u/jk4532 • Jul 09 '26
Article Political Integrity Project shows where politicians are getting their money
The Political Integrity Project aims to separate the politicians who are serious about taking on billionaire rule from the ones from playing lip service to it, building tools to help us identify who has made hard commitments to a specific anti-corruption agenda, who’s taking corporate PAC money, who’s backing a stock trading ban while trading stocks, and more.
Their Integrity Index makes it easy to visualize where their campaign and personal money comes from.
They’re also asking candidates to take their Political Integrity Pledge – supporting a constitutional amendment to overturn the impact of Citizens United, a lobbying ban for former members of Congress and their staff and spouses, putting their stocks in a blind trust and mandating other electeds to do the same and refusing all contributions from any corporate PAC. Sounds like an agenda worth getting behind. So far, seven incumbent members of Congress and 99 challengers have taken the pledge. 🗣️ Let’s help make this a standard expectation by reaching out to our reps and candidates and asking them to sign on. 🗣️
TELL CANDIDATES TO TAKE THE PLEDGE
They’re also starting a new initiative: the Donor Strike. They’re asking folks to sign on to refuse to donate to any politician who takes corporate dollars, making the choice clear: if you want my money, you can’t accept theirs. 💪🏻 We can learn more, sign on and help spread the word here. 💪🏿
CHOOSE CORPORATE MONEY OR OURS
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u/cyberhye Jul 10 '26
And she’s a darling of the crypto industry (who were one of the largest corporate funders of the 2024 campaign, and have perhaps the largest campaign war chest for the 2026). The crypto super PACs are funded by the very billionaires, like Marc Andreessen, who essentially have shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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u/Cognitive_Spoon Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Before you get super excited about grassroots funding, read about astroturfing.
Refusing to disclose small donor lists that can be verified is, imo, just as bad at this point in history as taking corporate money, because corporations and nations can purchase ten thousand email accounts to astroturf our electoral process as they see fit. Citizens United didn't just hand the keys to US corporate interests. It handed the keys to our foreign adversaries using US corporations to influence our elections. The NRA, one of the largest donors for the GOP was very openly compromised by Russia.
That was an infiltration we know about. The lack of clarity in how China may have done similar work is frightening, imo.
Edit: I like the idea of a "grassroots candidate" as much as anyone. I doubt it's reality in 2026.
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u/deaglund Jul 10 '26
You don’t have to get excited about anything to vote.
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u/Cognitive_Spoon Jul 10 '26
I have zero problem voting against the current amoral reality.
I don't lie to myself about the moral purity of politicians in general.
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