Jeff Clements

Worried about systemic corruption and unaccountable, even foreign, money in elections? Americans are solving it. The For Our Freedom Amendment youtu.be/vTpT22PmTt0?si…

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NEW: I looked into the unprecedented sums of money flooding state-level elections from corporate-backed super PACs. Meta, Andreessen Horowitz and the top sports gambling companies are spending tens of millions to install friends in statehouses. Most voters have no idea.

In a new survey from @pewresearch, Americans once again ranked money in politics as the nation’s top problem. 🔗 pewrsr.ch/4uam2SL

.@nytimes highlights Buckley v. Valeo (1976), which shaped today’s campaign finance system — amplifying the influence of big money. We're restoring people's voices in elections. 🔗 nyti.ms/48LKWPV

📰@nytimes reports the Virginia ballot measure on redistricting was heavily influenced by dark money. Of the $98 million raised by ad groups, at least 96% came from nonprofits that don't reveal donors — on both sides. Voters decided, but the debate itself was shaped by funders they couldn't see.

At EarthX, American Promise highlighted the need to address money in politics. Matt Howerton (@MagaMatt45) shared how decisions dating back to Buckley v. Valeo (1976) enabled unlimited spending — and how the For Our Freedom Amendment would restore voter control. Learn more at americanpromise.net.

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, offers a sobering view: The biggest technological shift in human history is happening, and almost no one is talking about it. Schmidt opens with a startling industry prediction: "We believe as an industry that in the next one year the vast majority of programmers will be replaced by AI programmers. We also believe that within one year you will have graduate level mathematicians that are at the tippy top of graduate math programs." He explains why this matters so much. Programming and math aren't just two fields among many: "Programming plus math are the basis of sort of our whole digital world." And the AI labs are already using AI to build better AI: "The research groups in OpenAI and anthropic and so forth… around 10 or 20% of the code that they're developing in their research programs is being generated by the computer. That's called recursive self-improvement." @ericschmidt then lays out the timeline most people haven't grasped: "Within 3 to 5 years we'll have what is called general intelligence AGI which can be defined as a system that is as smart as the smartest mathematician physicist artist writer thinker politician." He gives this belief system a name: "I call this by the way the San Francisco consensus because everyone who believes this is in San Francisco it may be the water." But the truly unsettling part comes next. Once AI starts improving itself, humans become optional to the process: "The computers are now doing self-improvement… they don't have to listen to us anymore. We call that super intelligence or ASI… computers that are smarter than the sum of humans. The San Francisco consensus is this occurs within six years." And here's where Schmidt sounds the alarm. The conversation isn't keeping pace with the technology: "This path is not understood in our society. There's no language for what happens with the arrival of this. This is happening faster than our human that our society, our democracy, our laws will address." His closing thought captures why this matters: "That's why it's underhyped. People do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level which is largely free."

We’re hiring! 📣 American Promise is building a cross-partisan movement to amend the U.S. Constitution so government reflects the people, not elite donors. To contribute, apply below. 👉bit.ly/4sK7kjz

Today is Patriots’ Day. American Promise is closed in observance. The day marks April 19, 1775, when colonists in Concord rose against distant rule, demanding representation and asserting a principle that still resonates: power should rest with We the People.

Inside the billionaire-funded arms race for 2026 - along with legal questions about opaque super PACs + millions in untraceable cash @CBSNews cbsnews.com/news/billionai…

Our voices have been drowned out by a system where elite money buys influence — but we are not powerless. American Promise is uniting Americans to pass the For Our Freedom Amendment. 25 states have called on Congress to act. All 50 can get it done. ⏩ bit.ly/4voXzdp

.@nytimes found nearly $300M in top midterm donations, none coming directly from actual people. This is “gray money,” where listed donors are just intermediaries. Disclosure was supposed to be a safeguard. It's failing. 📰 nyti.ms/4sCYzrN

25 states have now joined the effort to restore voters’ and elected representatives’ authority over money in elections. This is about who decides. The momentum is real — and growing.

NEWS: 1/2 the states have now taken action to get Congress to propose the amendment solution to unlimited money in politics.

Getting interesting on the constitutional amendment front – Utah, Oklahoma, and now Idaho.

Unlimited money in politics isn’t new, it’s decades in the making. TIME got the diagnosis right. The fix is already underway. 24 states in. 25 next week. We’re not debating. We’re building.

The dark money DC-based Super PAC complex is coming for city council races now. Another reason so many Americans support the constitutional amendment solution to the corruption and money in politics crisis. wausaupilotandreview.com/2026/03/24/was…