Accountability starts today.
NO GRIFT. NO GIFTS. NO DEALS.
What We're
About
Not With Our Money is a national economic resistance campaign powered by people that leverages city and state procurement, purchasing, and pension power against corporations underwriting authoritarianism. Right now, our nation’s communities are facing an unprecedented crisis: a crisis of collusion between corporations funded by city and state dollars and a government destabilizing our democracy. Too often, corporations funded by public dollars prioritize profits over people, undermining the services communities depend on. We are now in a moment that these corporations are now openly engaged in pay-to-play schemes with a federal government that is implementing policies directly harming our cities and states.
Authoritarian-leaning federal decisions and policies are taking a financial toll on our communities through ICE raids, increased National Guard presence in our neighborhoods, cuts to federal funding for critical social services, and the politicization of disaster aid, social services, infrastructure investments, and more. Our long-term financial health is strengthened by ensuring that our cities and states stop doing business with the authoritarian enablers who have implemented these economically damaging policies in our communities. We're demanding that corporations funded by public dollars are required to certify that they will cease financing an authoritarian government. Our money should serve, not sabotage, our communities.
The No-Bid Ballroom Boondoggle
over
$350 Million
raised from ballroom donors
$50 Billion
In contracts awarded to the 37 publicly named donors
costS started at
$200 Million
now stands at
$600 Million
Who We Are
Not With Our Money aims to force collusive and corrupt corporations to choose: stop supporting harm in our communities or stop taking our money. Cities, counties, and states across the country are the most powerful economic actors. Local and state governments move over trillions of dollars every year through procurement contracts, purchasing and pension fund investments. That spending power is a tool we can use to stop corrupt corporations from bankrolling or consenting to the inhumane, unethical policies of this administration.
We’re building a coalition united by a shared set of principles: every procurement contract, purchase, and pension investment must come with accountability; that corporations seeking city and state dollars must certify that they won’t engage in ethically questionable behavior at the federal level. We’re calling on cities and states to disengage from corporations that are underwriting authoritarianism. Not With Our Money aims to reshape the decisions corporations make when their actions harm our communities by uniting cities and states to hold them accountable and drive more responsible business practices.
News and Updates
Tracking the entities underwriting authoritarianism and the communities leading the economic resistance.
How local governments are leveraging state procurement powers to defend democratic norms against federal overreach.
A new watchdog report reveals the scale of pay-to-play schemes involving major infrastructure donors.
Analyzing how unaccountable procurement practices drive up the cost of living for working families across the country.
No Pay-to-Play. No Tribute.
When corporations pay powerful people to leave them alone, that is a shakedown. When corporations do it by choice, they are complicit. In a democracy, no leader should sell political favors.
We call on corporations to stop bending the knee — stop the pet-project donations and the deals that prop up authoritarian power.
Stop Building the Surveillance State.
Facial recognition in our neighborhoods and locations data sold to enforcement agencies are tools of control, not neutral products.
Reject government contracts that put surveillance tools in the hands of those who would use them against the people.
STAND WITH US
Use Pensions, Procurement & Purchasing for Our Communities. Cities, states, and public institutions control three of democracy's most powerful economic tools: what companies they invest in, what they buy, and who they pay. These levers belong to the people.
DEMOCRACY IS NOT FOR SALE. PUBLIC MONEY IS PUBLIC TRUST. COMMUNITIES ARE NOT COLLATERAL.
Protect Our Money. No Billionaire or Corporate Bailouts.
Our retirement savings are not a slush fund for the wealthy. When the next bubble breaks working people will not be left holding the bag. Not this time.
Apply rigorous fiduciary standards to public pension investments. Refuse speculative schemes that reward billionaires over beneficiaries.
Protect the Vote. Defend Democracy.
Restricting ballot access and intimidating voters are tools of authoritarianism. Corporate funding of those politicians makes corporations complicit.
Companies cannot profit from democracy while funding its destruction through politicians who undermine election results.