This @TexasObserver story by @stevanzetti highlights the importance of voting in your local school board elections.
"By the end of 2021, candidates backed by [the conservative billionaires-funded political action committee] Texans for Educational Freedom had established near or outright majorities in all three districts—and all three would later rank on a list of book-banning districts [...]"
We seldom agree with Sen Hawley, but this time he has leg. that Dems can get behind:
"I don’t think you can make an originalist case for bus corps being treated like individuals when it comes to the right to pol speech.”
Hawley plans to introduce leg. that'd GUT CITIZENS UNITED v. FEC, RCP is first to report. “My goal is to get corp$ out of our politics,” he said. His aim is to stop “corp influence” from “controlling our elections.”
I would love to see every campaign 100% government-funded, with strict accounting requirements and strict spending limits for each candidate. No fundraising events or donations from individuals or PACs allowed.
That means we (taxpayers) pay for candidate races, acknowledging campaigns cost money to run, but we get to know how and where campaign dollars are spent.
Also, networks, to keep their broadcast licenses, must host debates at cost (crew pay), no ads. #MoneyInPolitics