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There’s More That Mamdani Should Do To Clean Up NYC’s Corrupt Real Estate Industry Than Freeze Rents
NY Landlords & Developers Want To Defeat Mamdani, Reelect Adams More than ever in my long lifetime, corruption is an overwhelming feature...

Howie Klein
4 days ago7 min read


A Democracy— If You Can Afford It… Another Supreme Court Sellout To Big Money
Roberts & The Billionaires’ Bench Prepare To Finish Off Campaign Finance Reform The most extreme and corrupt Supreme Court since Roger...

Howie Klein
Jul 24 min read


A New Deal For The Working Class: Emily Berge’s Progressive Vision For Wisconsin And Beyond
(l-->r) Eau Claire City Council President Emily Berge, US Rep. Derrick Van Orden, Blue Dog congressional candidate Rebecca Cooke Emily...

Howie Klein
Jun 283 min read


Head Start For The Billionaire Class, Dead End For The Rest Of Us
Welcome To Techno-Feudalism: Romulus, Musk & The American Decline Van Orden and pal Yesterday, People revealed the name of one of Elon...

Howie Klein
Apr 185 min read


In Less Than Two Weeks Wisconsin Hosts "America vs Elon Schimel"
Musk Has Fueled America's Most Expensive State Judicial Election Ever Elon Musk, a billionaire, drug-addicted South African Nazi, is one...

Howie Klein
Mar 216 min read


What Can We Expect From A Democratic House Majority On Day One?
Mychael Schnell and Mike Lillis interviewed Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) a couple of days ago. If the Democrats win the House,...

Howie Klein
Oct 20, 20243 min read


Politicians For Sale... Government For Sale
Billionaire Should Not Exist In Democracies You’ve probably read by now that South African fascist and government-funded billionaire Elon...

Howie Klein
Jul 16, 20246 min read


Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: “We Are In A War For Our Future And We Should Behave That Way”
Last night, when we looked at why John Roberts is in contention for “worst Chief Justice ever”— imagine someone as bed as Roger Taney—...

Howie Klein
Jul 3, 20246 min read


What's Wrong With Extreme Self-Funding Candidates In A Representative Democracy?
Let's Count The Ways So far this cycle, the 4 biggest self-funders trying to buy electoral office failed. No matter the party, I think we...

Howie Klein
Jun 10, 20248 min read


What Should Happen With Politicians Who Build Careers Around Dark Money & Bribes?
A very significant portion of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, took legalistic bribes from Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX...

Howie Klein
Mar 7, 20238 min read


Corruption & Corporate Greed Are The Soft White Underbelly Of Virginia State Politics
Meet Heidi Drauschak-- The Antidote Heidi Drauschak has spent her career taking on corrupt special interests and corporate lobbyists in...

Howie Klein
Feb 24, 20234 min read


How To Change American Politics For Real— A Guest Post By Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff is the congressman from my district. When I first met him, he was a state senator and the district was red. In 2000, in what...

Howie Klein
Feb 1, 20233 min read


Why Can't Congress Get Rid Of Dark Money From Politics? It Can-- But It Doesn't Want To
As you probably know by now, 13 neo-fascist members of Congress— Matt Rosendale (MT), Matt Gaetz (FL), Ralph Norman (SC), Bob Good (VA),...

Howie Klein
Dec 22, 20223 min read


Will The DOJ Force Corrupt Politicians To Give Up The Tens Of Millions In Bribes They Got From SBF?
UPDATE: Late yesterday, Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas and extradited to the United States. I guess he won’t be testifying...

Howie Klein
Dec 13, 20227 min read


Sam Bankman-Madoff... And The American Political Establishment
On Tuesday, Rolling Stone ran an interview with Bernie in which he discussed the midterms. When Kara Voght asked him about his priorities...

Howie Klein
Nov 16, 20225 min read


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...

Howie Klein
Nov 12, 20223 min read


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...

Howie Klein
Oct 21, 20224 min read


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...

Howie Klein
Sep 14, 20223 min read


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...

Howie Klein
Sep 9, 20227 min read


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...

Howie Klein
Jul 22, 20226 min read
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