Good things are happening! Public funding in a pivotal mayoral race rises to the top, protesters crash Trump’s party, concert tickets are slightly more affordable, and consumer product safety is safe in court.
Breaking Up With Big Money
At a time when the world’s richest man recently said the president wouldn’t have won the election without him and super PACs representing special interests can shower candidates with unlimited funds, grassroots fundraising is making a comeback, including in a high-profile mayoral race.
“We cannot allow billionaires and powerful corporate interests to continue undermining democracy by injecting unlimited amounts of money into the political process,” eight senators, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), wrote in a letter addressed to the Democratic Party’s leaders on June 17. They argued that the outsize influence of wealthy donors like Elon Musk made Americans lose faith in the political system and called on the Democratic Party’s leaders to reject billionaire money by removing super PAC and dark money spending from Democratic primaries.
This is “not some pie in the sky dream,” the letter noted, pointing to a...
