Fight Big Money in Politics:
Build on Our Historic Victories for the California DISCLOSE Act!

Striking Next Blows Against Big Money in Politics!

Public Financing of Campaigns for Fair Elections

SIGN PETITION FOR SB 24 (Umberg-Allen) & AB 270 (Lee)! Repeals ban on public financing of campaigns in California so every city and county — & the state itself — can enact public financing to reduce the influence of Big Money in elections and empower voters! Read Support Letter

Disclosure of Who Pays for Travel for Politicians

SIGN PETITION for SB 1422 (Allen), the Travel DISCLOSE Act! Require disclosure of who pays for travel for elected officials and goes with them. Read Support Letter

Clean Money Victories Year After Year!

Two More Nation-Leading Disclosure Bills in 2022!

VICTORY! Ballot DISCLOSE Act (AB 1416, Santiago & Stern). Shows official supporters and opponents of ballot measures & referendums on the ballot itself!

VICTORY! Disclosure Clarity Act (SB 1360, Umberg & Allen). Stops Dark Money from hiding on online ads, TV ads, and initiatives!

Landmark Bills against Secret Money in 2019!

VICTORY! Petition DISCLOSE Act (SB 47, Allen). Makes initiative circulators show top 3 funders & lowers costs for grassroots!

VICTORY! Text Message DISCLOSE Act (AB 201, Cervantes-Mullin). Makes political text messages show who paid for them!

7 of 7 Clean Money Priorities in 2018!

VICTORY! Social Media DISCLOSE Act (AB 2188, Mullin). Makes ads on Facebook, Twitter, etc. show top 3 funders!

VICTORY! Restore Net Neutrality to CA (SB 822, Wiener)!

VICTORY! Stop Abuse of CA DISCLOSE Act (AB 2155, Mullin).

VICTORY! One Website With All Electeds (AB 2707, Mullin).

VICTORY! Initial Funding for Open-Source Paper Ballots.

VICTORY! Risk-Limiting Election Audits. (AB 2125, Quirk).

AB 249, California DISCLOSE Act, Signed in 2017!

READ ABOUT the strongest on-ad disclosure law in the nation — now law! Authored by Assembly Speaker pro Tem Kevin Mullin and sponsored by the California Clean Money Campaign.

3 Top Clean Money Bills Passed in 2016!

VICTORY! SB 1107 (Allen), which Clean Money sponsored, opens the door to public financing of campaigns in California! Victory news.

VICTORY! SB 1349 (Hertzberg), new state disclosure website!

VICTORY! SB 254 (Allen-Leno), put on the California ballot Prop 59, the Overturn Citizens United Act — which won! Sign petition!

Become a member of the California Clean Money Action Fund to join the fight against Big Secret Money!

Democracy Under Assault by Secret Money Unleashed by Citizens United

What do you care about? The environment, health care, education, food safety, worker rights, civil rights, or fair taxes? Everything in our lives is dominated by billionaires and special interests that spend unlimited amounts of hidden money to buy ballot measures and elections. Clean Money activists are making California lead the nation against this threat.

Historic California DISCLOSE Act Reveals Secret Money — But There's a Lot More to Do!

Left: AB 249 author Assembly Speaker pro Tem Kevin Mullin speaks at "Give the DISCLOSE Act a Vote!" rally. Right: AB 249 Senate floor manager Senator Ben Allen, Clean Money President Trent Lange, and Assemblymember Mullin huddle outside Senate chambers on the day of the final Senate floor vote.

After a relentless 7 year grassroots campaign that a story on Salon.com called "... the biggest post-Citizens United effort to alter how campaigns are run in America...", in 2017 we developed and passed AB 249, the California DISCLOSE Act — the strongest political ad disclosure law in the nation.

• Requires ads to show 3 largest funders of the ad in large clear type on a solid black background. No more fine print. Applies to all ballot measure ads and to ads about candidates paid for by outside groups.

• Identifies original funders on ballot measure ads using first-in-the-nation using earmarking and tracing rules so ads must display true funders instead of misleading names, even when they try to hide behind multiple layers.

Example of how it would have looked on bottom 1/3 screen of Yes on Prop 26 advertisement

How We've Built on the DISCLOSE Act

We passed SB 47, the Petition DISCLOSE Act in 2019 — the first bill in the nation to require initiative circulators show their top 3 funders & lower costs for grassroots!
We passed AB 201, the Text Message Media DISCLOSE Act in 2019 — the first bill in the nation to require political text messages to show who pays for them!
We passed AB 2188, the Social Media DISCLOSE Act in 2018 — the first bill in the nation to require political ads on Facebook, Twitter, etc. show top their 3 funders!