The RepresentUs Blog

What if our political system and the way we vote is contributing to the problem?

These groups lobby for their interests, finance political campaigns, and even write the laws that Congress passes... often with minimal transparency.

To be pro-environment, we must be anti-corruption.

Insider trading is a highly illegal practice, and it could land you up to 25 years in prison… unless you happen to be a member of Congress.

And why do some insist it isn’t?

Nearly everyone hates switching their clocks twice a year, but nothing has changed. Why don’t we do anything about it? The culprits, unsurprisingly, include politicians and lobbyists.

Sadly, everything the Biden and Trump campaigns did to alter the primaries was entirely legal.

Is political discourse better today than it was before the 2010 Citizens United ruling? Oof.

The Santos saga is a broader indictment of a broken system that enables corruption.