[8][9][10] Funded by donations and grants, it is run mostly by volunteers aligned in a grassroots organizing network, and it has brought in high-profile celebrities to advance its message.

[14] Its aim is to pass "powerful state and local laws that fix our broken elections and stop political bribery," according to an account in The Verge.

"[17] Along these lines, spokespersons including Jennifer Lawrence and Khloé Kardashian have called for greater access for at-home voting in presidential primaries.

[20] It promotes ballot initiatives which allow citizens to vote on reform measures directly, and it ignores in-office politicians hobbled by political gridlock at the federal level.

They include numerous high-profile leaders, including former FEC commissioner Trevor Potter, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, disgraced lobbyist-turned-reformer Jack Abramoff, representatives from Occupy Wall Street and the DC Tea Party Patriots, and the great-grandson of the former president, Theodore Roosevelt IV.

[29] Volunteer Renaldo Pearson walked six hundred miles from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. as a media stunt to show his support for voter protections, safer elections and an end to political corruption.

[30] Volunteer Ash Orr of the West Virginia chapter organized small business owners into a coalition to support the For the People Act.

[5] It has worked with organizations such as VoteSafe and the County Every Hero coalitions, to counter misinformation about alleged voter fraud and to educate the public about the need for safe and secure elections.

Their leaders write op-ed opinion pieces in major media[25] and make speeches in public venues;[35] for example, actor Jennifer Lawrence and co-founder Lynn appeared together at a high school in Cleveland to speak with students about the pressing need to fight political corruption.

[40] Board member and actor Jennifer Lawrence starred in a short film produced by RepresentUs entitled Unbreaking America: Solving the Corruption Crisis which described how the United States is a "broken democracy" and what actions people can take to remedy the situation.

"[41] A video starring the comedian Amy Schumer urged support for the For The People Act so that "politicians can't steal our goddamn elections.

[15] RepresentUs produced an advertisement entitled Transmissions from the Future featuring pop singer Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom which issued a dire warning to Americans about the possible upcoming death of democracy.

[51] The spot included Tiffany Haddish, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Chelsea Handler, Naomi Campbell, Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Silverman and her father Donald, Josh Gad, Ryan Michelle Bathe, and a fully dressed Sacha Baron Cohen.

[52] Another one participated in a candlelight vigil in Princeton, New Jersey in January 2022, to remember the one year anniversary following the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

[53][54] Silver explained the logic of an unusual protest in Washington D.C.[55] Approximately 700 people dressed up as $100 bills ran down K Street toward the Capitol, knowing that they would be blocked from entry by the Capitol police; at that point, the demonstrators would honor the police with a golden plaque for doing what Congress has been afraid of doing, namely, keeping money out of Congress.

[55] In its hundred dollar bills demonstration, leaders from the Tea Party as well as from the Bold Progressives participated by giving speeches, a further sign according to Silver that RepresentUs includes persons from across the ideological divide.

[11][50] It also includes basketball star Stephen Curry, actor Michael Douglas and voting rights activist Desmond Meade[56][57][30][58] What inspired Lawrence to become more active in politics was the election of Donald Trump in 2016, prompting her to no longer be a "little Republican", as she described herself, and she joined RepresentUs soon thereafter.

[60] It publishes a Gerrymandering Threat Index,[56] and in conjunction with the Princeton Innovation Lab, it issues a Redistricting Report Card.

[63] It graded the state of Texas with an 'F' for having a "significant Republican advantage,"[7] and described it as dangerous since it "gives politicians complete control over an often-secretive, poorly-protected redistricting process".

It sponsored a poll in North Carolina which found that 90% of voters oppose drawing voting districts to favor one party or candidate.

[66] Its research suggests that wide swaths of the public "across partisan lines" are dissatisfied with the current system of American governance and are ready for reform measures.

[67] Further, it shares its findings with other organizations; for example, Axios used research from RepresentUs to help build an interactive information resource for voters.

[69][70] In March 2019, 2,000 persons attended the conference in Nashville including United Nations official Kate Gilmore, gun control advocate X González, voting rights activist Desmond Meade, and actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata.

[71][72] Actress and RepresentUs board member Lawrence released a short film detailing the organization's political aims to a general audience.

[71][73] According to RepresentUs, the summit is the largest national event that attempts to address underlining causes of dysfunction in the United States government.

[20] We basically need to build a nonpartisan countervailing force to those who are countermanding democracy, the followers of the Big Lie.Silver saw a steady erosion of ethical standards in Congress during the past fifty years, with money flowing into and out of the US Capitol in the form of campaign contributions to elected officials or going to lawmakers who oversee regulated industries.

[84] In Michigan, activist Katie Fahey spearheaded an effort to reduce gerrymandering by creating an impartial citizen commission to draw up congressional and state districts, with its Proposal 2.

[87] In Utah, the ballot measure Proposition 4 created a seven-member redistricting commission which required, among other things, that they release draft plans to the public before finalizing any maps.

[92] Silver unsuccessfully lobbied Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to "protect voting rights" and to end the filibuster.

[95] Silver would like all elected officials to state a formal pledge, on the record, that they support anti-corruption measures to earn them a "seal of approval" devised by his organization.