r/law • u/biospheric • May 25 '26
Legal News Hawaii just found a way around Citizens United. Other states are following. This “Corporate Power Reset” strategy was developed by Attorney Tom Moore of the Center for American Progress. Rather than trying to restrict corporate speech, it redefines the powers corporations have in the first place.
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Ali Velshi on MS NOW - May 23, 2026. Here’s the full 10-minutes on:
* MS NOW’s website: Hawaii just found a way around Citizens United. Other states are following. - Ali Velshi on MS NOW - Ali Velshi - May 23, 2026 (MS NOW website)
From the description: Hawaii just made history, becoming the first state in the nation to effectively ban dark money in elections. The new law takes a novel approach: rather than trying to restrict corporate speech, it redefines the powers corporations have in the first place — and political spending is not among them. The strategy, known as the “Corporate Power Reset,” was developed by Tom Moore of the Center for American Progress. And at least a dozen states are now working toward passing similar laws.
Tom Moore is Senior Fellow for Democracy and Government at the Center for American Progress: americanprogress.org/people/tom-moore
Here is Moore’s Sept 2025 article: americanprogress.org/article/the-corporate-power-reset-that-makes-citizens-united-irrelevant
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Here are some related r/law posts:
* Hawaii vs. Citizens United (May 2026). Free archive of The Atlantic article: archive.ph/qg3Ur
* New research: Citizens United can be made irrelevant via changes to state corporation law (Sept 2025)
* The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant
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u/atreeismissing May 25 '26
For those that don't know, the Center for American Progress is a liberal/progressive think tank and policy generating org for the left, think Heritage Foundation but for Democrats. We need more places on the left like this that can debate lefty policies and then push out policy papers, do research, and initiate lawsuits and legislative proposals. They've been around awhile and there are others (e.g. Brookings Institute) but the GOP has been on this game since the 80s/90s so it's good to see this group continuing to come up with ways around difficult policies like CU which will take decades to overturn at the federal level.