The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Koch Justice: Billionaires Seek to Expand Influence Over Law Enforcement and Courts In 2018
Charles and David Kochs’ campaign to influence state attorneys general and state courts has largely flown under the radar.
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Dysfunction and Deadlock at the Federal Election Commission
A 2015 Bloomberg poll found that at least 87 percent of Americans favored changes to campaign finance laws so that wealth does not dictate political influence – yet our FCC continues to betray the American public and jeopardize our democracy.
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Five Years After Citizens United, Wealthy Donors' Campaign Spending Has Skyrocketed
A new report finds outside spending, dark money and super PACs more than doubled candidates' campaign war chests between 2010 and 2014.
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And Now the Richest .01 Percent
According to new research, the richest one-hundredth of one percent of Americans now hold over 11 percent of the nation’s total wealth – a higher share than the top .01 percent held in 1929 before the Great Crash.
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Money Owns Politics As $3.6 Billion In Election Spending Shatters Records
The vast sums of cash raised by independent groups reordered the political landscape this fall as new levels of collaboration eroded barriers between those running for office and their big-money allies.
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How Revolutionary Movements' Fear of Money Helps the Oligarchy
We live in a revolutionary activist culture that teaches people to be afraid of money, to never ask for it, and to never openly say you want it or need it – and meanwhile, the oligarchy runs laps around us.
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Can't We Just Say the Roberts Court Is Corrupt?
John Roberts knows he was appointed to be the Supreme Court Chief Justice for one reason: to decide relevant cases on behalf of corporate interests.
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McCutcheon Took Us Back in Time – But It Might Just Birth the Next Occupy
The conservative Supreme Court thinks it can build a gilded age for the era of income inequality. They won't know what hit 'em.
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How The Supreme Court Legalized Money Laundering For Very Rich Donors
Thanks to Wednesday’s decision, wealthy donors have a broad new power to launder money to candidates — they just have to be a bit creative.
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Supreme Court To Decide on Campaign Finance Limits
McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission will determine whether the limit is lifted or changed on federal spending laws to finance candidates, parties and PACs
