**CHARLOTTE, NC – IN a SHOCKING DISPLAY of POLITICAL ACROBATICS THAT HAS LEFT CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLARS REELING, SENATOR THOM TILLIS HAS PROPOSED a BILL THAT, if PASSED, WOULD EFFECTIVELY MAKE IT LEGAL for CORPORATIONS to VOTE in FEDERAL ELECTIONS.**

CHARLOTTE, NC – IN A SHOCKING DISPLAY OF POLITICAL ACROBATICS THAT HAS LEFT CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLARS REELING, SENATOR THOM TILLIS HAS PROPOSED A BILL THAT, IF PASSED, WOULD EFFECTIVELY MAKE IT LEGAL FOR CORPORATIONS TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

The “Citizens United Redux Act of 2025” claims to “clarify” that a corporation’s board of directors is equivalent to a “natural person” for the purposes of casting a ballot. Under the proposal, a corporation with more than 1,000 shareholders would receive one “corporate proxy vote” per 100 employees—a move Tillis’s office calls “economic enfranchisement.”

“It’s simple math,” Tillis said in a press release. “If a company provides jobs, it should have a say in the laws that govern its bottom line. This isn’t just about fairness; it’s about survival. The silent majority of the boardroom has been ignored for too long.”

THE MORAL DOWNFALL:

Ethics watchdogs are already calling this the “Gilded Age 2.0,” and it is not hard to see why. This proposal is a moral catastrophe wrapped in the language of efficiency.

First, it commodifies citizenship. By defining a vote as an appendage of employment, Tillis has telegraphed a terrifying message: your civic voice is not a birthright—it is a metric of your output. The implication is clear: if you are unemployed, your interests are not just irrelevant; they are parasitic.

Second, it codifies a hierarchy of influence. A CEO would now inherently have more ‘sovereignty’ than a single mother working two shifts. This is not democracy; it is feudalism rebranded for the Fortune 500. We are watching the final divorce of