The Story of Citizens United v FEC explores the crisis of corporate influence in American democracy and was inspired by the January 2010 Supreme Court decision that gave corporations the right to spend unlimited funds to influence elections. We made the movie because we believe getting corporations out of our democracy is critical to making progress on a huge range of issues that we Americans (and many others around the world) care about, from good jobs to clean air to safe products.

As we point out in the movie, the kind of independent groups that corporations are now allowed to support spent $300 million to influence the 2010 midterm elections, more than every midterm election since 1990 combined.

Koch Industries — which was one of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s largest campaign contributors — spent over $1 million alone and Koch-backed groups like Americans for Prosperity and the Cato Institute have argued in favor of more corporate money in politics and fought attempts in Congress to force shadowy corporate-funded independent groups to disclose their donors.

Citizens United means union-busting climate-deniers like the Koch Brothers will have even more political power than they do now. We think its high time we got the corporations out of our democracy and got the people back in.

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