amendment to the United States Constitution that would end corporate personhood and publicly finance all elections in the United States. , five states have passed the resolution thus calling for such a convention, though not all states have used identical language in their convention call. Justice Democrats Uygur is critical of the New Democrats wing of the Democratic party, which he regards as the incumbent political establishment. He has called for the Democratic Party to undergo a revitalization process. On January 23, 2017, three days after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Uygur co-founded the Justice Democrats along with Kyle Kulinski, a political commentator who had been affiliated with Uygur's Young Turks network. The group seeks to steer the Democratic Party in the strongly progressive, social democratic or democratic socialist direction espoused by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. They do this by running progressive candidates in primaries against those whom they consider moderate and conservative Democrats such as Joe Manchin, Joe Crowley, and Dianne Feinstein. Uygur resigned from his position in Justice Democrats on December 22, 2017, after the discovery of blog posts he had written in the early 2000s, in which he made statements that were described by Justice Democrat leadership as "sexist and racist". The next day, Uygur apologized and denounced his past statements in a video on The Young Turks channel on YouTube, and in an interview with TheWrap said he deleted the "ugly" posts a decade ago because "I don’t stand by them." "The stuff I wrote back then was really insensitive and ignorant," Uygur said. "If you read that today, what I wrote 18 years ago, and you’re offended by it, you’re 100 percent right. And anyone who is subjected to that material, I apologize to. And I deeply regret having written that stuff when I was a different guy." Uygur said he wrote the posts while he was still a conservative, before he underwent a political transformation into a liberal, "I had not yet matured and I was still a conservative who thought that stuff was politically incorrect and edgy." His news organization, The Young Turks, now offers left-leaning stories and commentary. “If someone said that today, I would heavily criticize them on the show and rightfully so, and I have. I’ve criticized myself over the years,” he added. Congressional candidacy In mid-November 2019, Uygur filed to run for Congress in California's 25th district, a