Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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Amending Colorado's Constitution: Do Communities Have Right To Clean Air and Water?
By enacting the Colorado Community Rights amendment, communities in the state will be empowered to stand up to the corporations that bully them.
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Citizens Vote To Amend Constitution and End Corporate Personhood In Five States
Voters in Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Florida elected a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United declaring that corporations are not people and money is not speech.
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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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12 Wisconsin Cities to Vote: End Corporate Personhood, Overturn Citizens United?
Across the state, residents will cast ballots Tuesday on whether to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn Citizens United, end corporate personhood and get big money out of politics.
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Monsanto, Dupont, Big Foods Spend $25 Million to Defeat GMO Labeling In Oregon and Colorado
Heavy industry spending resembles the last-minute infusions of cash for TV ads, mailings, and staff that helped narrowly defeat campaigns for mandatory GMO labeling in California and Washington.
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Then They Fight You: Plutocrats on the Defensive Against Social Justice Movements
Wealthy people are often so isolated from the rest of us, many of them have forgotten how rich they really are.
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Can Anti-Corruption Candidate Rick Weiland Upend South Dakota's Senate Race?
Toss-up races like Kansas and South Dakota may be the ones that decide whether or not Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate.
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Arrested for Democracy: Inside 99Rise's Latest Civil Disobedience to Get Money Out
“We wanted to take action to dramatize the betrayal of the American people and show that we will resist and attempt to disrupt or at least expose pro-corruption politicians' ability to raise big money.”
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Money Driving Politics: $430 Million Spent on Ad Wars In State Elections
More cash has gone to governors' races in Florida, Illinois and Pennsylvania than any U.S. Senate race – while Texas’s lieutenant governor and AG top state-level funding.
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How the Rich Rule: Convince Average Voters to Support Economic Elites
How do politicians who are unresponsive to the interests of the vast majority of their constituents get elected and, more important, re-elected, while doing the bidding mostly of the wealthiest individuals?
