Protecting Democracy [1]

American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms.

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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Threats to Democracy

Protecting Elected Officials from Threats
Making Government Work [2]

The U.S. government should work for the public, not corporations or industry. It should safeguard consumers, workers and the environment, and be funded well enough to do so. The budget process must not be obstructed by partisanship.

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It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity
Consumer & Worker Safeguards [3]

Every day, Big Banks, Big Polluters, and Big Tech companies are threatening our economy, our environment, and our democracy – sacrificing Main Street Americans and our families on the altar of corporate profits. Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government.

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Dozens of Commonsense Safeguards Vulnerable to GOP Rollback

Crypto Promoter Paul Atkins Named to Chair SEC
Safe & Affordable Drugs & Devices [4]

Prescription drugs are unaffordable and new drugs and devices often are approved without being proven safe and effective. Public Citizen challenges Big Pharma, device manufacturers and federal regulators to make drugs and medical devices safe, effective and accessible to all.

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Health Care [5]

Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials.

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Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2021-2023

Report: Thirty-One Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties: 1991-2021
Globalization & Trade [6]

Global Trade Watch’s mission is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy economic security, a healthy environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the matters that affect our lives.

Global Trade Watch has led the fight against corporate-rigged “trade” agreements that provide special powers for Big Pharma to raise medicine prices, promote the outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries and undermine the food safety and other safeguards on which our families rely.

For decades, we have fought for progressive alternatives that benefit people and the planet. Learn more about our work.

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Climate & Energy [7]

The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power — and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy. We also must fight the corrupting power of fossil fuel companies and ensure that energy regulators are effective and publicly accountable.

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Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record
Justice & the Courts [8]

Litigation can remedy or deter wrongdoing, impact policy and meaningfully slow abuses of power. Whether suing on behalf of our members to ensure the honest functioning of government, or representing individual consumers seeking redress in court, our litigation draws on our expertise in administrative law, constitutional law, and government transparency.

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Fighting to curb big money’s stranglehold on government

Big Tech, Big Cash: Washington’s New Power Players

CFTC Must Reject Dangerous Election Gambling Proposal

Oil Money Helped Make Ken Paxton. Oil Money Is Trying to Save Him.

The Citizens United decision has been a disaster for our democracy. Public Citizen champions a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and works to enact crucial reforms to end the corporate and special interest money corrupting our democracy.

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Overturn Citizens United Now

To save our democracy from big money takeover, we need a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

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Tell Congress: Pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act

Congress has taken a bold step toward preventing the egregious presidential corruption we saw under Donald Trump.

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Our Work

We’re working locally and nationally to build momentum to overturn Citizens United and empower small donors through public financing systems that give everyday people a voice.

Mobilizing states to back a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

In the nine years since Citizens United, 19 states have passed resolutions supporting a constitutional amendment to overturn it--half the total we need to win approval.

Twelve Years Since Citizens United, Big Money Corruption Keeps Getting Worse

Secret political spending has corrupted our political process toward corporate interests and robbed citizens of authentic representation.

Passing small donor public financing and a pay-to-play corruption reform bill in D.C.

Following passage of DC Fair Elections and our sweeping pay-to-play reform bill, 2018 marked the most progress combating big money in politics in the District's history.

Letters, Testimony & Filings

Anti-Transparency Proposals Before the FEC Are Contrary to the Commission’s Core Mission to Enhance Donor Disclosure

December 11, 2024

Press Releases

Elon’s Obscene Spending Shows Campaign Finance Reform Is Critical

December 6, 2024

Press Releases

Dr. Oz Appears to Violate FTC Influencer Marketing Rules with iHerb Social Media Ads

December 3, 2024

Press Releases

With Lutnick Pick, Trump Adds Billionaire Crypto-Promoter to His Corporate Cabinet

November 19, 2024

Press Releases

New Tracker Keeps Tabs on Trump Appointees’ Conflicts of Interest

November 19, 2024

Fact Sheets & Backgrounders

Tracker: Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest

Reports

Meet Susie Wiles’ Controversial Corporate Lobbying Clients

November 15, 2024

Letters, Testimony & Filings

Letter to Senate Urging Confirmation of OGE Director

November 13, 2024

Press Releases

Trump, Crypto, Conflicts and Corruption

November 8, 2024

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Tell Congress: Pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act

Generative Artificial Intelligence and Threats to Democracy

Protecting Elected Officials from Threats

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

Dozens of Commonsense Safeguards Vulnerable to GOP Rollback

Crypto Promoter Paul Atkins Named to Chair SEC

Tell President Biden: Make Meds Affordable

Win Medicare for All

Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2021-2023

Report: Thirty-One Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties: 1991-2021

Join the Trade Justice Movement

Tell Toyota: Go all-in on EVs

Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record

Subscribe to the Supreme Court Conference Preview

Big Tech, Big Cash: Washington’s New Power Players

CFTC Must Reject Dangerous Election Gambling Proposal

Oil Money Helped Make Ken Paxton. Oil Money Is Trying to Save Him.

What you can do

Overturn Citizens United Now

Tell Congress: Pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act

Our Work

Mobilizing states to back a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

Twelve Years Since Citizens United, Big Money Corruption Keeps Getting Worse

Passing small donor public financing and a pay-to-play corruption reform bill in D.C.

Anti-Transparency Proposals Before the FEC Are Contrary to the Commission’s Core Mission to Enhance Donor Disclosure

Elon’s Obscene Spending Shows Campaign Finance Reform Is Critical

Dr. Oz Appears to Violate FTC Influencer Marketing Rules with iHerb Social Media Ads

With Lutnick Pick, Trump Adds Billionaire Crypto-Promoter to His Corporate Cabinet

New Tracker Keeps Tabs on Trump Appointees’ Conflicts of Interest

Tracker: Trump Appointees’ Corporate Conflicts of Interest

Meet Susie Wiles’ Controversial Corporate Lobbying Clients

Letter to Senate Urging Confirmation of OGE Director

Trump, Crypto, Conflicts and Corruption

Stay Updated on Money in Politics

Follow Public Citizen's Democracy Is For People Campaign

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