The Corporations Funding the End of Democracy
The New Republic essay by Osita Nwanevu argues that corporate donations enabled a long-term Republican strategy to entrench minority rule, funding projects like [[REDMAP]] and groups such as the [[Republican State Leadership Committee]] that backed state-level gerrymandering and voter-ID laws to suppress Black votes. He cites IRS filings showing tens of millions raised by the [[RSLC]]. Nwanevu lists household-name donors — from [[Coca-Cola]] and [[Wal-Mart]] to [[Microsoft]] and [[Pfizer]] — and urges that companies be held accountable when their giving contradicts public statements defending democratic norms. He sketches activist tools — consumer boycotts, targeted pressure campaigns, and demands to stop partisan funding — noting limits and risks but insisting that weakening corporate financial support for the [[GOP]] is a viable, partial strategy to protect [[democracy]] and enable reforms to curb entrenched partisan advantage.