🧩 BND Motif Index · M1808
Get money out of politics
Since money buys candidates, people are urged to take it out of politics: overturn Citizens United, ban corporate and super PACs, cap what one donor can spend.
📣 Exhortations🗂️ Money and power🗂️ Political manipulation
- 8claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 4claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Money in politics
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (3 left-leaning, 2 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Elon Musk jokes about GOP election loss after campaign spending 2026-11-04 to 2026-11-05
- 📰 Elon Musk spent nearly half a billion dollars on Republican campaigns in midterms 2026-11-04 to 2026-11-07
- 📰 Jon Stewart urges Democrats to remove senior leaders 2026-11-06 to 2026-11-07
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “#EndCitizensUnited” “All PACs need to be banned. That lobby money is corruption.” “Get big donors and corporations out of our government. Public funding for all elections is the only way to stop this.” “Then get money out of the way and out of politics.”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 2
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-29 “Billionaires buy elections through corporate PACs and super PACs.” 3
- 2026-10-20 “Matsui is said to have loaned herself $1.4 million in the primaries and directed her donors to boost the MAGA Republican.” 1
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Told in the center 1
claims heard only on center or crossover shows
- 2026-11-07 “Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are conflicted about reforming Citizens United because they accept AIPAC money.” 1
Retold online 4
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-09 “Money and big donors must be removed from politics to ensure government is for the people.”
- 2026-11-09 “Democratic politicians are bought and paid for by AIPAC and corporate special interests.”
- 2026-11-05 “Citizens United must be overturned to get money out of politics.”
- 2026-10-28 “Elon Musk's massive political spending is a threat to democracy that should trigger the reversal of Citizens United.”
Said by voters 1
claims voters made in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-01 “El Sayed will get money out of politics”
M1808 · first seen 2026-11-09 · what this is · how the index works