Watch FSFP & Allies Support YES on CA 59 To Overturn Citizens United

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U.S. Department of Justice Files Amicus Brief to Support Appeal by Colorado Civil Rights Organizations in Voter Intimidation Suit

Posted on November 15, 2024 (November 20, 2024)

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. These groups, represented by Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells, filed their appeal brief last week, challenging the
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Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification

Posted on November 13, 2024 (November 18, 2024)

Election Protection

A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification. Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessed
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Free Speech For People’s Statement on the 2024 Election

Posted on November 8, 2024 (November 12, 2024)

FSFP Updates

Our democracy is worth saving. This election cycle, our democracy has been staggered by blow after blow. We cannot pretend otherwise; to do so would be to accept that this hamstrung system is the one with which we must live. It is not and we do not accept that it is. We will keep fighting
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On Friday, September 23, YES On Prop. 59 coalition members held a press briefing and Q/A session to educate California voters on the ballot initiative calling on state Representatives to overturn Citizens United with a constitutional amendment.

Free Speech For People joined the co-author of SB 254 (now Prop. 59), Sen. Ben Allen to sign a massive “We The People” petition, calling upon the state’s Congress and Legislature to support Proposition 59.

Also in attendance were Kathay Feng, Executive Director, California Common Cause; Trent Lange, Executive Director, CA Clean Money Campaign; Emily Rusch, Executive Director, CalPIRG; Bri Holmes, Digital Media Strategist, Free Speech for People; Michele Sutter, Co-Founder, Money Out Voters In; Daniel Lee, Move To Amend; Westchester-Playa Democratic Club.

The Yes on Proposition 59 Coalition is asking California voters, who represent nearly 40 million people, to call on their representatives this November to support amending the U.S. Constitution to allow for reasonable limits on campaign spending, and to say that money is not speech and corporations do not have the same rights as human beings. The overwhelming domination of wealthy special interests in our elections is drowning out the voices of average Americans and threatening our democracy. A “yes” vote this November would send the biggest message yet in the national movement to end the detrimental impact of big money in our politics.

Watch videos from the event below.

Video courtesy of Global Voices For Justice