The Rules Just Changed

SCOTUS just made life easier for MAGA billionaire megadonors

This morning, the Supreme Court made it easier for billionaires and the GOP to work together to spend massive amounts for their candidates.

In a case brought by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Court struck down a longstanding limit on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with a candidate.

That might sound technical, but it isn’t. For years, there was a basic guardrail on the books: Party committees could help their candidates, but they could not coordinate directly with them to spend unlimited sums on their behalf.

This morning, the Court blew that guardrail to smithereens.

Now, super-wealthy MAGA donors have another way to pour big money into a campaign and gain more access to the people in power. MAGA megadonors in this country just got a bigger, cleaner lane to buy influence with the politicians they fund.

I’m going to be honest with you: This makes our work harder.

Here is what I need you to understand, though. This was not a surprise. And it was not the first time.

This is the Supreme Court that gave us Citizens United, which opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in our elections. It is the same Court that just gutted a core protection of the Voting Rights Act and made it easier to silence Black voters through redistricting.

Again and again, this Court takes power away from ordinary folks and hands it to the wealthiest and best-connected people in the room.

Some MAGA Republicans will call this ruling a victory for free speech. They will say a megadonor’s right to spend money was being restricted.

But a voter with a few hundred bucks in her checking account also has free speech. A single mom working the night shift has free speech. A retiree in Saginaw rationing his prescriptions has free speech.

The question this Court keeps answering the wrong way is whether those voices get to count at all – or whether they get buried under those of people who can afford to write seven-figure checks.

It’s a recipe for corruption. That is democracy getting auctioned off, one check at a time.

What worries me most about today’s ruling is what this means for Michigan. Our battleground race will likely decide control of the Senate, and National Republicans and their billionaire allies were already trying to buy this seat. Now the NRSC and the MAGA donor machine have even more room to flood Michigan with money for Mike Rogers and try to bury our grassroots campaign.

I know that can feel discouraging. This is a hard moment.

But I was raised the Michigan way: Hard work doesn’t intimidate me. Michiganders know what to do. We stand up. We get more dogged. We show up. And then we show up again and again and again and again.

Money can buy TV ads, Washington consultants, a mansion in Florida, and a closet full of nice suits. (Mike Rogers knows.) But it cannot buy a real record of fighting for working people. And it can’t outwork a campaign full of people who are sick of watching politicians bend over backward to help the wealthiest Americans. It can’t buy results for Michigan.

This campaign is powered by folks who chip in what they can, make calls after a long day, knock doors on the weekend, and believe Michigan deserves a senator who fights for the working people who actually live here.

That is our biggest advantage – and we are going to use it.

I am not backing down. I am not getting discouraged. And I am not going to let Mike Rogers, the NRSC, or the billionaire class buy this seat out from under the people of Michigan.

But I cannot do it without you.

So I’m going to ask for your help. Will you chip in $30 right now to help us fight back against the megadonor money flowing into Michigan?

Your contribution will go to help us knock doors, make calls, and build the kind of grassroots campaign that wins because regular folks showed up for one another.

We’ve got a tough fight ahead.

Good. We’re tough, too.

Let’s do it together.

With grit,

Haley

A personal note from Haley 👋

I’m a lifelong Michigander and the daughter of small-business owners. I’ve spent my career fighting for Michigan’s working families – and now I’m running for the U.S. Senate to keep standing up for the people I love.

But here’s the truth: Senate control could come down to Michigan. And Trump and his megadonors know it. That’s why they’re gearing up to spend tens of millions to defeat me and hand this seat to a MAGA Republican.

I need your help to fight back. This race will be one of the most competitive – and expensive – in the country, and I’m counting on grassroots support to win. 

If you’re with me, will you chip in today?