Sam Bankman-Madoff... And The American Political Establishment
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Howie Klein
- Nov 12
- 3 min
Immense Sums Of Corrupting Cash Was Spent This Cycle-- Most Of It Wasted
Between October 19 and the end of the election cycle, the 3 House candidates who got the most money in contributions of $1,000 and more...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 21
- 4 min
All That Stuff We Need Congress To Do? None Of It Will Happen Without Campaign Finance Reform
Chicago Congresswoman Marie Newman is one of just a small handful of members of Congress who does just rail against corporate PACs in...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 14
- 3 min
Big Money Still Flooding Into Political Campaigns
On Monday I was on a Zoom call with a dozen progressive candidates, some of whom had won their primaries and some of whom had lost. Three...
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Howie Klein
- Sep 9
- 7 min
DNC Pretends To Be For Working People Again... While Serving The Special Interests
Dark Money Corruption Is As Welcome In The Democratic Party As It Is In The Republican Party Jacobin published an interview with soon to...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 22
- 6 min
AIPAC Is Now Essentially A Money Laundering Operation For GOP Cash To Disrupt Democratic Primaries
Regular readers of DWT already know this but early this morning Robert Reich confirmed what we already know, namely that AIPAC is no...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 15
- 6 min
Trump's Whole Life Has Been All About The Benjamins, So Why Doubt The The Big Lie Was As Well?
In his Washington Post column yesterday, Max Boot admitted he had low expectations for the select committee-- expectation he was delight...
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Howie Klein
- Aug 18, 2021
- 3 min
Wisconsin Dems Shouldn't Run A Corrupt Multimillionaire Against The GOP Corrupt Multimillionaire
Yesterday, I spoke with Wisconsin Senate candidate Gillian Battino about the shocking report about the multimillionaires trying to buy...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 21, 2021
- 5 min
Real Bipartisanship: The Billionaire Class Has Bought Our Democracy
Blue America and Marianne Williamson share a lot of candidates that we've both endorsed and last week we helped Marianne with an ad hoc...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 17, 2021
- 8 min
Campaign Cash Is Flooding Into 2022 House Races, But... Not Much For Challengers To The Status Quo
On Thursday, Marianne Williamson hosted a candidate summit for the 16 candidates she has endorsed for the 2021 and 2022 cycles. $5,355...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 30, 2021
- 8 min
Surprised To Hear That People Don't Want Billionaires Buying Politicians?
Meredith did an in-depth look at attitude of North Carolina's registered voters a couple of weeks ago and published their findings...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 19, 2021
- 6 min
Why We Can't Have Nice Things-- Plus The Demise Of The Lincoln Project
I've told this story before but let me mention again that as the president of a Time Warner division, I was contactually entitled to the...
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Eric Zuesse
- Jan 22, 2021
- 6 min
How Billionaires Transfer Blame To Others
-by Eric Zuesse Throughout history, aristocrats, and their flaks such as their ‘news’-media, cast blame downward, away from themselves...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 12, 2021
- 4 min
Post-Insurrection Republican Party Money Woes
Sheldon Adelson, simultaneously a Mafia and a one-man Israeli front operation-- who has also been a conduit for political money from...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 15, 2020
- 8 min
We're Not Getting Anywhere Without Legitimate Campaign Finance Reform. Here's How
You may remember Alex Law from his progressive congressional campaign for South Jersey's first congressional district in 2016. Blue...
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