I’m Tom Moore, senior fellow for democracy policy at the Center for American Progress. I’ve figured out a way to break Citizens United. I kid you not. It’s a BFD. AMA.

For the last year and a half, I've been crafting a state-based legal approach that aims to render Citizens United irrelevant by redefining the powers granted to corporations under state law. The approach is rooted in centuries-old foundational corporation law: if a corporation has not been granted the power to do something, then any right to do that thing is irrelevant. 

Because we are fancy here at CAP, we are calling this the Corporate Power Reset. 

The project is being piloted in Montana for the 2026 ballot; find out more here: https://transparentelection.org/

My full report is here: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-corporate-power-reset-that-makes-citizens-united-irrelevant/ 

A short explainer video has gotten some nice traction on r/law and elsewhere on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1nrcrez/video_the_legal_strategy_that_renders_citizens/

And CAP's hosting an in-person and streamed event on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 1pm ET with former Montana Sen. Jon Tester: https://www.americanprogress.org/events/undoing-citizens-united-and-reining-in-super-pacs/

I’ll be here in r/politics at 11:30AM ET on Wednesday, October 8.  Ask me anything about CAP's Corporate Power Reset, Citizens United, dark money, state power over corporations, The Montana Plan, or my new AirPods Pro 3.