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Represent.us company history timeline

2010

What partially spurred them to act was the 2010 Supreme Court decision on Citizens United.

FEC 2010 decision as well as subsequent rulings, so that local governments could use it as a model and adapt it to write their own anti-corruption legislation.

2011

One of the first acts of RepresentUs was to support the 2011 American Anti-Corruption Act.

2012

The organization was co-founded by Josh Silver and Joshua Graham Lynn in 2012.

2014

In 2014 in Tallahassee, Florida, voters approved a city charter amendment modeled after the act that established a city ethics commission, imposed stricter contribution limits on candidates for city office, and created a public financing system.

2016

In Maine, it established ranked choice voting with its 2016 Maine Question 5 for all statewide elections.

In 2016 the organization succeeded in bringing about thirteen successful state and local anti-corruption acts and resolutions.

In 2016 the organization achieved similar results at the municipal level.

2018

RepresentUs expanded their activity in the succeeding years and led a number of successful efforts in the 2018 election year.

2021

While he describes himself as "fiercely nonpartisan", he claimed that Donald Trump pursued an "electoral coup" in early 2021.

2022

As of January 2022, RepresentUs has helped to pass about 130 anti-corruption and pro-democracy laws, according to an internal assessment made by Ross Sherman, a strategist working for RepresentUs.

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2008
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Joshua Graham Lynn,Tara Smith Swibel,Todd Dipaola,James Strock,Katie Harbath,Mike Madrid,Miles Taylor,Rahim Amlani,Ramsey Homsany,Shawn Riegsecker,Josh Silver
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