Our Demands
We demand that Republican donors make a public commitment to provide no more funding to the Party or any of its candidates until the Party's leaders demonstrate their commitment to the following objectives:
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Establish an independent commission to investigate all contacts between the Trump administration and the Russian government, including any businesses owned or controlled by members of the Trump Administration. This must be an effort accountable to public scrutiny.
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Establish an independent commission to investigate the vulnerability of our election system to foreign interference, with a mandate to produce a public report and recommendations for securing our voting system.
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Release Trump's tax returns to the public. Investigate and make public all of Trump's assets, debts, and sources of income. Enforce the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which prohibits the president and other government officials from receiving payments “of any kind whatever” from foreign governments.
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Stop the President’s contrived Commission on Election Integrity. End the Republican Party’s racist and partisan assaults on voting rights at the federal and state level and commit to protect polling access for every eligible American.
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Reject the President's blatant nepotism and revoke the security clearances of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, remove them from their advisory roles, and exclude them from any formal White House proceedings.
If the President obstructs these investigations or rejects any recommendations that result, he must be impeached. If he is found to have obstructed justice, engaged in self-dealing, or committed any other serious offenses, he must be removed from office.
On Notice
We are putting corporate America on notice. If you have been a responsible participant in American government, you have nothing to fear. If you have supported the extremists who currently hold power, you must now use the access and influence you bought to help us defend American democracy.
But if you continue to support those who undermine our core values, we the majority of Americans who believe in freedom and civil liberties will hold you accountable. We will use all of our economic power against you. We will deprive you of customers. We will cut off your business partners. We will destroy your livelihood.
If a targeted company currently on our boycott list wants to win us back as customers, they must make a public commitment to provide no more funding to the Republican Party until it meets our demands. We will then replace them on the boycott list with another major donor.
We Are Non-Partisan
CitizenVeto is not fighting for liberal public policies or in favor of any political party. But the undeniable fact is that the Republican Party under its current leadership is rapidly undermining our hard-earned rights as American citizens. We will do everything in our power to starve the Party of funding and support until it reforms itself.
Even principled conservatives like David Frum, Bill Kristol, and Evan McMullin are aghast at Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican Party and are openly fighting against it. We welcome those working to reform the Republican Party to join our effort to stop their anti-democratic extremism.
How This Gets Done
We will not be distracted by self-serving arguments about the limits of congressional oversight or the sanctity of presidential prerogative. Republicans went to unprecedented lengths to hold open a Supreme Court seat for more than a year in order to hand the vacancy to a Republican president. We expect no less creativity and determination in their exercise of congressional power now.