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This year, America turns 250 years old — and our body politic has never been sicker. We're suffering from a seemingly incurable illness called Citizens United.
Its symptoms are everywhere: paralysis in Congress, collapsing public trust, and an economy that feels totally rigged.
It may be terminal — but we're not dead yet.
I'm Jack Schlossberg, and I wrote an OpEd about it for Rolling Stone earlier this month. 
You see, my campaign for Congress is running a clinical trial in New York City, testing whether grassroots medicine can inoculate our infected political machine.
If you believe in grassroots power, we need your support to show that we can win without ANY corporate PAC money, AIPAC investments, or Big Tech. Are you in? Split a donation between me and the Voter Protection Project today!
The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC unleashed a pathogen into the bloodstream of American democracy: unlimited, undisclosed corporate and billionaire spending.
It set a new equilibrium and put a price tag on elections, and it's been a disaster for our Democracy.
Since the Court's decision, total election spending has tripled. The top one percent of households now owns a third of the nation's wealth. Taxes on corporations are the lowest in history. The richest Americans sitting behind Trump at his inauguration often pay zero in taxes, while ordinary Americans are struggling to afford the basics.
The disease is systemic: money buys access, access buys influence, and influence rewrites the rules.
That's why I'm testing a cure in my home district for Citizens United: Citizens, united.
To heal, we need to get back to our roots, which means running campaigns that speak to and hear from the very people we seek to represent. That's what I'm trying to do, because the health of our democracy won't be restored by those who benefit from spreading this illness. It will be restored by those willing to fight it.
America doesn't need a eulogy. It needs a treatment plan. Will you stand with me and the Voter Protection Project to reject the infection? Let's prove that our country can still heal.
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