Lawrence Lessig who pioneered Internet campaigning for Howard Dean in 2004 and was a senior adviser for the John Edwards campaign has started the Change Congress coalition. The Internet and Wiki tools will be harnessed to get Congress to listen to the people they represent instead of lobbyists and fat cats.

Change Congress’s website has the tools to “Reclaim your District!”. The San Jose Mercury-News article has more information.

Members of Congress and candidates will be asked to support four goals: reject contributions from lobbyists and political action committees; ban spending on pet projects known as earmarks; work for public financing of campaigns; and back transparency for the work of Congress.

“The presidential campaigns this year have mobilized thousands of people who want change, but the next president alone won't be able to change Congress. That's where we need fundamental reform,”Lessig said. He thinks the surge in online political activism and blogging — from the right and left — can be turned on Congress.