The Power Playbook is a ready-made menu of ambitious and actionable policy solutions — all directly countering corporate power — for local and state leaders to champion (as officeholders, candidates, advocates, and neighbors).

It’s a living library — we’ll add to it, we’ll adjust it based on feedback, we’ll improve it over time. It’s designed to be iterative. And while we’ve made best efforts to present accurate, timely, and considered analysis, we make no promises that ideas reflected here are the best solutions to any given problem… or even very good ones. Here’s what we do promise: the ideas reflected here are worth discussing. They’re worth arguing over. Behind each idea is certainly a better idea — but you’ll have to wrestle with the first to get to the second.

The Playbook is developed and maintained by Run on Power, a 501c(4) organization committed to equipping local and state leaders with the blueprints for exposing and challenging unchecked corporate power in their communities. We’re shifting what’s possible tomorrow by shaping and sharpening what’s talked about today.

A LITTLE MORE INFO.

  • Legislation, rulemaking, regulatory and administrative action, and informal and formal government practices that directly alter or diversify — either with carrots or sticks or both — corporate incentives, or that increase the power workers have over employers or creates public competition for private sectors. Challenging unchecked corporate power is as much about increasing the capacity of other powers — government, consumer, worker, civic — as it is about decreasing power available to corporations.

  • Corporate power is the central issue of our time. We cannot transcend other challenges — be it climate change, democratic erosion, or crises of affordability, housing, and healthcare — without first countering the power corporations exert over markets, politics, governance, and culture.

    This is the fight we wage so that we can effectively wage all others. We’re focused on corporate power today, so we can focus on everything else tomorrow.

  • Local is what people see and feel. It’s the water they drink, the internet they use, the curriculum their kid learns, and the unions they’re empowered to join. It’s the daily stuff — the stuff that rarely makes the media frenzy but does make up a life. It’s also the stuff most captured — often invisibly — by corporate power.

    The good news? Even with Washington a mess, our neighborhoods, wards, towns, counties, cities, and states hold tremendous democratic power over corporate power… if we know how to wield it. (That’s where Run on Power comes in!)

  • Yes! If you’ve ever written a white paper, report, or model legislation that directly challenges corporate power… we want to read it! Your research — no matter its original reach or reception — may hold an idea that belongs in today’s electoral discourse. Email reynolds@runonpower.org.