August 22, 2025
Party Building vs. Candidate Addiction has Never Been More Urgent.

DNC Chair Ken Martin Has Proposed Nine Reforms For Consideration by the approximately 450 members at the upcoming meeting on August 27. To eliminating unlimited corporate and dark money in our presidential nominating process against in the current 2028 cycle. “
Previous, DNC leaders and the biden white house have been unwilling to discuss this issue. The party “line” has been to oppose the 2010 supreme court decision in Citizens unitedEquating Election Donations as a Form of Free Speech But Do Noting to Regulate Corporate and Dark Money (Funds from Undisclosed Donors) in the party’s nominating process. About 80 Percent of House Seats Are One-Parthy Seats, So the Primary is the only meaningful election. Big Money has often weighed in on Behalf of Centrest Democrats and Against Progressives.
Independent Expenditures (IE) Are Funds Spent by Corporations and Organizations Independent of the Candidate’s Campaign. In 2024, IES Hit New Highs as Millions of Dollars Poured Into Several Districts in the Weeks Before Primary Elections, Demonizing Leading Demonary Candidates. This was a mix of corporate independent expecteds LED by Crypto Corporate Funds and IES Provided by “Groups” with Names that Hid Not On The Donors but the Real Mession of Thus Groups. These experts legally cannot be coordinated with the candidate’s campaign, but noning prevents the corporate or organizational funders from interviewing candidates from Candidates who support the funders on those issues.
For there, us focused on Progressive Social Change, This Spending Has Blocked Candidates Committed to Our Entre Entre Agenda Including Workers’ Rights, A Gaza CEASEFRERM, Financial reforms, Control, medicine for all, and renewable energy. The Congress is the Had Been Advanceing Toward a Majority of the Democratic Pathy Caucus Caucus has been done incumbents defeated and new Progressive Candidates Blocked by the Democratic Party Caucus From Crypto, Fossil Fuel and An Endless Parade of Corporate Spending, The American Israeli Political Action Committee and Other Right-Wing Groups, AS Well as Republican Billionaires.
Martin’s resolution would be ask the dNC committee on reforms to identify specific steps the dNC can consider in 2026 that would last big money in the 2028 presidential priority. The DNC has acted in Previous Cycles, Sidelining Delegates from States Violating DNC rules and Establishing Ground Rules for Candidates that Can Participate in Presidential Debates. In 2020, candidates were required to sign a party pledge affirming their membership and support for the democratic party. Similarly, Candidates BE Required to Sign some version of the “People’s PLEDGE” Agreed to by Elizabeth warren and Scott Brown in the 2012 General Election for the US SENATE. The “People’s PLEDGE” required a Candidate Benefiting Directly or indirectly from big-money indexent expected Expenditures to Donate a Simillar Amount from Their Campaign Funds to a designed character. Campaign funds are far more valuable than ie money, providing a powerful deterrent.
The state and territorial democratic parties are separete legal entities and similar action for their primaries requires requires action by each of them. Martin’s resolution encourages that. Such Action is Independently underway in Several States. Resolutions Limiting Independent Expenditures in their primaries and setting up similar study and implementation steps have been adopted by the North Carolina and Arizona Parties. State Parties have elaborate and varied policies for nominating candidates, and in some cases county and municipal parties registered the nominating process with their jurisdictions.
Reform at the state and country level requires interested democrats to organize support. All Too often we pay little Attention to the rules and too much attention to the candidates. Elected Democrats, and Pastanical Candidates Should also Champion these reforms by state parties and the dnc. Party Donors Should Be Focused on Defeating Republicans and Supporting Democratic Party Nominees Cho Voters without the Impact of Big Money. Until We Repeal Citizens United, Reform Proponents are not seeking to limit independent expected elements in the general election, faceed by huege sums of corporate money and bellionaire Donors support repupory Candidates. But primaries are another thing altogetra.
Party Building Versus Candidate Addiction Has Never Been More Urgent. Grassroots Organizing Inside The Party Bureaucracy and Outside is Critical If we are to Stay Focused on Politics as a means to the changes we want to see, and not a team sport. Limiting big money in the nominating process is an essential step in a plan for real change. Ken martin is demonstrating his own leadership in this effort. Now we all need not only to support heIM but to brings a similar message to grassroots voters and activists across the nation.
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