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Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig has merged Elizabeth Warren's core idea that "the system is rigged" with the #BlackLivesMatter fight for equality and the issue of campaign finance reform.
Progressive candidates across the country are sending the result -- a call for a Citizens Equality Act in 2017 -- to their supporters, talking about it in their campaigns, and working with us to build momentum for this idea from the ground up.
Watch the video and join candidates across the the nation calling for a bottom-up revolution of our campaign finance laws and voting rights.
JOINT DECLARATION TO PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES:
Passage of a Citizens Equality Act should be the first order of business after the new Congress is seated and the new president is inaugurated in 2017.
A Citizens Equality Act would provide for:
1) Equal freedom to vote. Strike down often-racist voter ID laws and allow all Americans to vote freely.
2) Equal representation. End the crazy gerrymandering that let's politicians pick their own districts and makes elections non-competitive.
3) Citizen funding of elections. Reduce big-money influence with public matching funds that makes a $100 donation from a teacher just as valuable as a $700 donation from a lobbyist.
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