The Lever - Stop Dark Money

Since we founded The Lever, we’ve covered dark money — looking at how unlimited, untraceable spending corrupts our politics and the backroom deals that got us here. Our new investigative podcast series, Master Plan, explicitly details this history (you should listen to it).

Billions in dark-money spending brought us Project 2025 — a radical plan that Trump’s allies aim to implement if he wins the presidential election. Project 2025 would reshape the entire government, roll back regulatory safeguards, and give billionaires and corporations sweeping control of American life.

The 922-page blueprint to dismantle the federal government is the grand finale of a secret plan written by a Supreme Court justice more than 50 years ago. The plan laid out a step-by-step process to seize power from the American people and entrench it in the hands the elite. First, operatives used the courts to dismantle campaign finance laws, then they unleashed an unending torrent of dark money to secretly buy elections for plutocrat-friendly candidates. To counter this plot, we must reverse the Court’s catastrophic Citizens United decision allowing unlimited corporate campaign spending.

Tell Congress to pass the Democracy For All Amendment to overturn unrestrained campaign spending and dark money that corrupts American democracy, so we can begin to push back against billionaire-backed schemes like Project 2025.

Thank you for taking action. And keep listening to Master Plan to learn more.

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