158 families

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

$176 million.

That's the amount of money 158 families—and the companies they own or control—have already contributed to Republican and Democratic presidential candidates.¹ $176 million—that's half of the total funds contributed thus far in the 2016 presidential race.²

Who are these people and why are they buying our democracy?

I tackle those big questions and more in three minutes in The Investments of the 158, my latest video with MoveOn. Please watch it and share it now.

How much more evidence do we need that our democracy is in crisis?

Please watch and share my latest video, which amounts to a giant wake-up call to reverse Citizens United and get big money out of politics, once and for all.

Thanks for all you do.

--Robert Reich

Sources:

1. "Buying Power," The New York Times, October 10, 2015
http://act.moveon.org/go/76?t=5&akid=160246.10220574.VTyqC8

2. Ibid.

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