[6][7][8] Since its launch in 2016, American Promise has engaged in statewide efforts in Wyoming and Massachusetts to put initiatives on the ballot in 2018.

[12] In states like Colorado, Montana, California, and Washington, they are working to pass local resolutions asking their elected officials to follow the will of the voters.

[13] In Massachusetts, a local affiliate group called People Govern, Not Money is leading an all-volunteer effort to place an initiative of the 2018 ballot that would ask voters to create a volunteer 15 member cross-partisan citizens commission that would be tasked with advancing policies to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v.

[16][17] The Congressional Leadership Awards recognize leaders in Congress who are committed to building cross-partisan alliances to advance a 28th Amendment to the Constitution to overturn Citizens United v. FEC[18] Recipients of the first annual Congressional Leadership Award include: American Promise's cross-partisan advisory council includes Doris Kearns Goodwin, former state senator Nina Turner, John Pudner, Ben Cohen, Donnel Baird, Judy Wicks, former Congressman Jim Leach, Justice James C. Nelson, Matt Patsky, former governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis, former senator Alan Simpson, Kahlil Byrd, Rev.

Dr. Katharine Henderson, Ella McGrail, Joe Kearns Goodwin, Robert Monks, Jack Doty, Tamara Piety, and Professor John Coates.