Pro-Democracy Activists March on Harrisburg to Demand Action to Defend Democracy

HARRISBURG, PA—Following a three-day, 35-mile march from Lancaster to Harrisburg, on Monday, September sixteenth, MarchOnHarrisburg led a bunch of anti-corruption activists to the State Capitol Constructing to demand the State Senate comply with the Pennsylvania Home of Representatives and cross HB2433, a invoice banning foreign-influenced firms from spending cash to affect state and native elections. 

Alexandra Flores-Quilty, Free Speech For Folks’s Marketing campaign Director, joined the marchers for a press convention on the Capitol.

“Folks wish to know that their lawmakers are accountable to them,” says Flores-Quilty. “That is the precept of self-government. It’s time for Pennsylvania state regulation to cease multinational firms from offering paths for international entities to attain, both straight or not directly, what they’re barred from doing as international governments or people: spending cash in US elections.

The coverage grows from mannequin laws developed by Free Speech For Folks, a nationwide nonpartisan non-profit group that works to defend our democracy throughout the nation. Free Speech For Folks helped to cross comparable laws in Minnesota in 2023, San Jose, California in 2024, and Seattle, Washington in 2020. Extra payments are into consideration in California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington State, in addition to within the U.S. Congress. Consultant Jamie Raskin and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse have launched the Get Overseas Cash Out of U.S. Elections Act, which is a federal companion invoice to HB2433.