Our government is corrupt. Not corrupt in any criminal sense. But corrupt in a perfectly legal sense: special interests bend the levers of power to benefit them at the expense of the rest of us. Both parties are part of the problem. Both have become dependent upon the campaign funding of the tiniest slice of the American people — not to mention the funding of corporations and other non-citizens. That dependency is this corruption.

Only the people can force lasting change on this broken system. And that change begins with understanding: The people must recognize that corruption is not just one among many important problems. Corruption is the root problem, that makes solving the others so difficult.

As Henry David Thoreau wrote — "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." — so will we practice. Our aim is to recruit teachers — citizens from every part of society who will work with us to spread the recognition of the corrupting influence of money, and help us build the movement to reform it.

We work with a wide range of groups, all committed to fighting this corruption. But our distinct role is to build and share tools that make it easy for anyone to recognize this signal threat to our Republic.

There is no partisanship in the fight against this corruption. There are liberals, conservatives, and libertarians among our members. And while we don't pretend that we share a common end, we do recognize our common enemy. Our project will live until that enemy has left.

Join us.