Filter noise? You mean like concerns of citizens instead of concerns of lobbyists?
A Kickstarter might be more useful than a petition in getting the attention of the US government.
A Kickstarter might be more useful than a petition in getting the attention of the US government.
https://usa.brianstaskforce.com/
https://brianstaskforce.com/blog/more-than-a-petition
The idea is to combine charitable giving with petitioning so as to establish the weight or importance of your idea to the powers-that-be.
I mean, the closest thing is recent history, the Occupy movement, was still only a few tens of thousands at most.