What We Are, and Why We Cannot Be Bought
A movement built to get concentrated money out of politics has to be built so that concentrated money cannot get into it. Otherwise it is just the next thing somebody buys.
The lesson
An organization whose leadership answers to donors, sponsors, or a self-appointing board can be redirected the moment it becomes inconvenient to somebody with a checkbook — and it usually is redirected quietly, without a vote and without an announcement. An organization whose leadership answers to its members cannot.
That is why the structure is written down before the positions are.
What that means in practice
- A movement, not a bureaucracy. Very lightweight by design.
- Member-owned. Every major decision flows up from the membership. The board serves at the pleasure of the people, not the other way around.
- Radically transparent. All finances, all board votes, all major decisions — documented and published. Every dollar visible.
- Uncapturable. No single donor, corporation, or foreign interest may hold outsized influence. Grassroots funding from real Americans only. That is the same fight as Citizens United, applied to ourselves first.
- Accountable. An elected board with term limits, annual independent audits published in full, and any board member recallable by member vote.
Why it belongs on this page
Because it is the same test we apply to a member of Congress. We exist to establish whether an incumbent is captured and to replace the captured ones with challengers who are not. A movement that could not pass its own test would have nothing to say.
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