Make Corruption Illegal Again!
"Money in Politics" is the BIGGEST problem we are facing. Americans recognize it as the root of all of our major problems—the skyrocketing cost of living, forever wars, the climate crisis and the list goes on and on...
In fact, none of these problems will ever be solved until we get BIG Money out of our politics. We must END Citizens United.
Hello,
My name is Stan Tillman. I’m a former management consultant. Since retiring I have spent over a decade searching for a way to do the impossible — enact a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
It's now possible.
Here's How
It will take a HUGE grassroots movement for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. One man has proven several times that internet influencer collaborations are an extremely powerful tool for quickly organizing highly successful grassroots movements (Team Trees, Team Seas and Team Water).
Philanthropist Jimmy Donaldson, known to his fans as MrBeast, is the only self-made billionaire influencer on the internet today. In 2024 he was crowned “The Most Watched Person in the World " by TIME Magazine. He receives an estimated 29 million to 37 million views a day in the U.S. alone across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
The first grassroots movement he launched was Team Trees to help fight climate change. He partnered with Mark Rober and together they:
- Recruited more than 600 internet influencers
- Organized over 800,000 supporters
- And planted over 20 million trees in only 56 days
How do you organize over 800,000 people in under 2 months?
I'll let them tell you in their own words below:
Mark Rober said, “We reached out to other influencers. More and more people started liking it and retweeting it so it was clear there was an appetite for this… We quickly built a large group of influencers and took over the internet…"
He goes on to say, "I think the biggest thing we wanted to prove is that the internet isn't just all talk. If we really put our minds together to make a positive change, we can actually do it. You know, you can be a force for good in the world and you don't have to have all these superpowers. You can just be like a dude, with his buddies, having fun and doing cool stuff that makes people happy."
One influencer involved said, “The reason I'm most excited about this is it feels like the Power Rangers when they all assemble at the end and fight stuff together to do good.”
Influencers fired up their fans and kids got their parents on board. According to the Arbor Day Foundation, “Schools and student groups got involved with Jimmy Donaldson's and Mark Rober’s Team Trees movement by hosting fundraisers, organizing local events, and incorporating the initiative into classroom lessons.”
We should expect even more involvement and enthusiasm for the Team America 2026 campaign to end corruption and save our democracy and our country. It's not political, it's patriotic.
Don't just take my word for it, see for yourself — for the full impact, click the the photo above to watch the video.
Influencer Collaboration
By definition influencers have influence. But when influencers join together as a team to accomplish common goal, it's like going from the power of a spotlight to the full power of the sun focused on a single spot.
We just need to start with what's been proven to work and scale it up, take it to the next level. We need to focus the power of an enormous influencer collaboration on this one issue, the most important in our lifetimes, ending corruption.
There are over 10 million influencers in the U.S. The highly successful Team Trees collaboration was only around 600 influencers. Imagine the power of a collaboration of thousands, if not tens of thousands or even millions of influencers focused on this one issue, solving our BIGGEST problem, corruption.
There is no better way to honor our country's 250th anniversary than for us to join together as a team to “Make Corruption Illegal Again.”
The Team Trees Strategy
We can use Donaldson's influencer collaboration strategy to organize the HUGE grassroots movement required to put the heat to the feet of our politicians to enact a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United to save our democracy and our country. We can "Make Corruption Illegal Again."
FundRazr Goal
Our goal is to raise $50,000 to place a full page display ad in the New York Times, our national paper of record. We are convinced that getting this message out will spark the grassroots movement, start a chain reaction, reach critical mass and put the heat to the feet of our politicians.
The ad will be a call to action for every American to join "Team America 2026," an influencer driven collaboration to overturn Citizens United with a constitutional amendment.
Donate and Share
Please donate and share this message. End Citizens United by making a contribution! Any amount no matter how small will be greatly appreciated. Raising less than the goal will reduce the size of the ad but not our determination to end corruption.
We hope to spark a mass movement driven by internet influencers to put the heat to the feet of politicians to enact the 28th Amendment to Make Corruption Illegal Again! Any amount helps. Don't forget to share. Thank You.
Call to ACTION
It will take a HUGE grassroots movement. There is absolutely no scenario in which a constitutional amendment is enacted without a HUGE grassroots movement to force politicians to do the right thing.
We must ALL join together as a team and fight for the 28th Amendment to "Make Corruption Illegal Again." That's what this FundRazr is all about.
Team America 2026
We need to launch “Team America 2026,” a HUGE influencer collaboration, to overturn Citizens United with a constitutional amendment. Team America 2026 will give young Americans new hope. Their enthusiasm and support will push the amendment over the top and save our democracy, our country and their future.
The ad in the New York Times will encourage all 10 million influencers in the U.S. to support the cause and ask every American to join the movement.
Spread the Word
This message needs to go viral. Please share with 3 to 10 or more people and ask each of them to share it with 3 to 10 or more on every social media platform.
In his book, Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting is OUR Final Shot at Saving Democracy, Bradley Tusk said:
“If enough Americans stand up and demand it, if you express your support continuously on Instagram, X, on TikTok and YouTube to your friends and family, in newsletters and blog post to people who hold office and those who aspire to, in meetings and rallies in all the myriad places that politics happen, then eventually, despite the entrenched opposition, we will prevail… It’s the only thing that can save both our democracy and our country.”
If we apply maximum star power, get everyone everywhere all at once involved talking about this issue and crank up the volume to ten it will be impossible for politicians to continue to ignore us.
Online Petition
In addition to launching “Team America 2026”, we need to post a Future of Life Institute online petition (like the Musk/Wozniak online petition to pause AI development) with a call to action to sign the pledge to vote out of office any politician who doesn’t also sign the petition and support this amendment, as in, “You’re FIRED.” That approach certainly worked for Grover Norquist.
Stand together to end corruption. It's not political, it's patriotic.
To paraphrase Tusk, our team has “one BIG advantage and it isn’t money”: Americans want to end corruption. The challenge is to channel their frustration with seeing billionaires get away with everything every single time into a powerful political force.
"Once constituents have the ability to weigh in online, the incentives shift completely.” The overwhelming majority of citizens of all ages weighing in via the internet “will finally change the politics of the issue.
Tusk said, “There’s one cause, and one cause only, that unites all elected officials: staying in office… We don't need politicians to defy human nature. We just need them to do what already comes naturally to them—looking out for themselves."
"Rather than just complaining about politicians or wishing they were somehow better people, we have to reset their priorities. We have to make getting things done an absolute condition of their holding office.”
Our Future Depends on It
The failure of our political system due to corruption is the most important issue of our lifetimes. It negatively impacts every man, woman and child alive today and it will well into the future. Unless we take ACTION.
What Can We Do?
It takes a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
Our operating system, our constitution, was written in 1787 and has only been updated 27 times in 239 years. It hasn't been updated in 34 years. No wonder it's been hacked. Billionaires hacked it.
We need an URGENT SYSTEM UPDATE.
Great News
The 28th Amendment has been written and is ready to go. In February 2025 Representative Pramila Jayapal reintroduced the “We the People Amendment” (H.J.Res. 54) to overturn Citizens United saying: "Corporations are not people and money is not speech…"
We just need to come together as a team and push it over the top.
In Closing
The American Dream is Dead. Billionaires killed it. Many young people can’t afford to buy homes. They blame Boomers like me. They’re right. We inherited a well functioning system and took it for granted. Now we are leaving them a HUGE mountain of debt and a BIG reeking mess. The kids deserve better.
Our government is broken. BIG Money broke it.
We need to fix it. But can we?
Hell yes we can! We’re Americans. We fix stuff. That’s what we do.
"We Can Do It!"
Thank you,
Stan Tillman
Extra Credit Reading
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
“We will not achieve change by prayer alone. Our problems can only be solved through action. We are not powerless. We must work hard, with vision. WE must take action.” — His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back—concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.“ ~ Often attributed to Goethe, but it’s the work of William Hutchinson Murray from his 1951 book: The Scottish Himalayan Expedition
