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I'm no lawyer, constitutional scholar, or political scientist. I don't expect people here are either. But those people exist. It's time to organize them and make a new constitution.

What're the first steps?

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I tried hiring an attorney to create a 501 (c) 4 political advocacy organization but after calling 20 different attorneys in different states, I got zero bites when I was saying "Take my money!". It's apparently a very niche area of law and lawyers all specialize and won't do anything in areas they don't have experience. The only one that really seemed like they specialized in political advocacy groups was clearly a super right-wing bullshit group and they didn't respond to my inquiries.