From Jeanette Kelty Monroe To the editor: Building the Democracy reform movement is a long-term struggle to save our representative democracy from dominance by large corporate and other special moneyed interests. The concerted efforts in recent decades by "Big Money/Dark Money" to control our election processes and our political candidates has been very successful. But our nation was founded on the principle that "We, the People" are to govern ourselves as a democratic republic and now the people are regaining control of our republic through our efforts in democracy reform action that is likened to women's suffrage and the Civil Rights movements.