Overview
- Ken Martin put a package of nine reforms on the agenda for an August 27 vote by roughly 450 DNC members.
- The proposal commits the party to eliminating unlimited corporate and dark money from the presidential nominating process beginning with the 2028 cycle.
- The move follows a 2024 surge in independent expenditures, including crypto-linked and opaque groups, that advocates say boosted centrists and undercut progressives.
- State parties in North Carolina and Arizona have already adopted resolutions seeking to limit such spending in their primaries.
- Because court rulings like Citizens United remain in place, the effort centers on internal party tools such as candidate pledges, debate participation rules, and People’s Pledge–style deterrents.