About The Organization

About The Organization

Welcome to Democracy in Action!

You have arrived at the website of for the Show MI the Money campaign whose goal is to achieve transparency and restore limits in political money.

ShowMItheMoney was created in 2019 by Michiganders for Fair and Transparent Elections (MiFTE) as a coalition of democracy-focused groups that would work mutually on campaigns and activities that would end the hijacking of Michigan’s elections by Big Money and Dark/Secret Money. ShowMItheMoney is a grass-roots, non-partisan organization.

The early groups that assembled agreed that any successful effort to address the problem of runaway money in our elections would require the banding together of a number of elections stakeholder groups who can, in turn, energize a large number of people across the state. Michigan’s problems with money in its elections/politics are so deep and so extensive that only overwhelming citizen action can achieve the kind of changes we need.

Coalition Partners

The ShowMItheMoney partnership significantly grew as part of the April 27, 2023 ShowMItheMoney Lobby Day event at Michigan’s Capitol. At present, the following groups have a formalized relationship with ShowMItheMoney

The early groups that assembled with us agreed that any successful effort to address the problem of runaway money in our elections would require the banding together of a number of elections stakeholder groups who can, in turn, energize a large number of people across the state. Michigan’s problems with money in its elections/politics are so deep and so extensive that only overwhelming citizen action can achieve the kind of changes we need.

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Our Area of Work

PURPOSE

Because Big and Dark/Secret Mooney are so intermingled, yet are generated by different problems, we ultimately devised 2 goals for ShowMItheMoney:

Reveal the sources and activities of Secret Money in Michigan

via legislation that will require disclosure on all sources of money in Michigan’s elections. If the legislature fails to act in the 102nd Legislature (2023-2024), we will pursue a ballot measure that will let the voters directly fix this problems.

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Reign in the exponential growth of Big Money in our elections

via securing resolutions by Michigan local governments and non-partisan civic groups calling for their congressional representatives and senators to prepare an amendment to the US Constitution to reverse US Supreme Court decisions such as Citizens United.

PARTNER ORGANIZATION

As mentioned above, we have always structured the ShowMItheMoney campaigns as multi-group efforts based on equal partnerships amongst the groups.

The most recent example was the April 27, 2023 Lansing ShowMItheMoney Lobby Day. The partners for that event included the following 10 groups: