Corporate Strategy:
Pulling Out the Pillar
Three ways to take part:
1. Organizations: Add your organization’s name to the Corporate America Call to Action, calling on corporations to publicly defend free and democratic elections.
2. Businesses: Businesses of any size, from corner stores to major employers, can publicly pledge to defect from the administration’s attacks on free and democratic elections.
3. Individuals: Choose how you’ll be ready, alongside millions nationwide, and ask three friends to sign too.
Why corporations?
Corporations depend on workers, customers, and communities. That gives us power. When we act together, we can ask them to stand up for free and fair elections.
When corporations and CEOs stay silent, or stay close to those attacking elections, they help prop up that effort. When they publicly defend the results, they pull that support out.
The count isn’t over on Election Day
Votes are counted, results are verified, and winners are certified. Every step matters, and each one is a moment when corporations can speak up or stay silent. Here’s what we’re asking of them:
Inform employees about their voting rights.
Publicly oppose barriers to voting.
Publicly oppose efforts to block vote counts or to block the certification of winners.
If anyone tries to keep votes from counting, we’ll be ready to call on corporations to speak out, and to take action together if they don’t.
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Corporate America Call to Action
We, the undersigned organizations, are united in calling on our business leaders to join other pillars of civil society in the full-throated defense of free and democratic elections.
In every corner of this country, people are standing up because we believe that the people should choose their leaders — not the other way around. Yet as the 2026 midterm elections approach, we face a coordinated effort to undermine free and democratic elections by stripping people of their voting rights and weakening the power of their ballot. Black communities are bearing the brunt of these attacks.
The business community has the power to make a significant impact by joining efforts to insist on free and democratic elections. For this reason, we are calling on you to sign the Businesses for Democracy Pledge and join us in pushing back against a wholesale assault on our elections and our democracy
Businesses for Democracy Pledge
1. We believe in the power of civic participation: We will provide information to all our employees about their rights as voters, how to register and other ways they can participate in the democratic process.
2. A strong and vibrant country requires free and democratic elections: We will publicly oppose efforts that would prevent or create obstacles to eligible voters casting their ballots.
3. A thriving economy requires a healthy democracy: Threats to free and democratic elections destabilize our communities and our economy. In addition to the above, if there are attempts to prevent the counting of votes or the seating of duly elected candidates after the election, we will publicly oppose those efforts.
We believe that the people should choose our leaders. If this ceases to be true, the instability will be felt from our local communities to our national economy. Businesses can and should be part of ensuring the will of the people prevails. As business leaders, we will oppose any measures that create obstacles—including the national anti-voter efforts (e.g. SAVE Act), intimidation by armed law enforcement, federal takeover of elections, or any legislative, executive, or administrative actions that keep people from voting or keep trusted election officials from counting all eligible ballots.
We insist the will of the people prevail and will oppose attempts to overturn results or refuse to seat democratically elected candidates in defense of free and democratic elections. We will use our influence through trade associations and business councils to stand with the people of our state for democratic principles.
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Focus Corporations
JPMorgan Chase
The largest bank in the US, with over $4 trillion in assets, and arguably the most powerful institution in the US economy. CEO Jamie Dimon has deep, continuing ties to the Trump regime, including $1 million+ to his inauguration and a close relationship with Palantir. But Chase has broken with Trump before: Dimon declined to fund Trump's ballroom, raised alarms over tariffs, later walked back, and closed Trump's accounts after January 6th. With over 5,000 branches nationwide, Chase is influential and visible.
Sources: Federal Reserve | Onclusive | NYT | The Hill | CNN | BBC
Target
One of Minnesota's leading corporate citizens and the state's 4th largest employer, its logo on the stadiums and jerseys of Minnesota's sports teams. Target donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration and rolled back its DEI initiatives, after which it featured a costume on its site evoking Jim Crow-era blackface. During Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, Target reportedly let ICE stage operations in its parking lots and stayed silent even after Border Patrol assaulted and detained two US citizen youth at its Richfield store. Target eventually joined 60 Minnesota corporations calling for "cooperation" with the federal government, an alarming ask given what Attorney General Pam Bondi has said "cooperation" would mean: handing the DOJ access to Minnesota's voter rolls. That's nowhere near enough.
Sources: PBS NewsHour, DEI/costume | Star Tribune, Richfield detentions | Fortune, Chamber letter | MN House DFL, Bondi voter rolls demand
Amazon / Whole Foods
The largest company in the US by revenue and the second-largest private employer. Executive chairman Jeff Bezos is one of the most powerful business leaders in the world. Amazon has deepened its ties to the administration, donating to Trump's inauguration, licensing a Melania Trump documentary for $40 million, and benefiting from Trump-era policy. It has also provided ICE and CBP with millions in cloud services and software. With roughly 500 Whole Foods stores and a nationwide distribution network, Amazon has a visible footprint almost everywhere.
Sources: Amazon Economic Impact Report | Forbes | The Guardian | Puck | WSJ
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