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Howie Klein
Jul 36 min
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—...
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Howie Klein
Jun 108 min
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...
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Howie Klein
Mar 7, 20238 min
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...
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Howie Klein
Feb 24, 20234 min
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...
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Howie Klein
Feb 1, 20233 min
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...
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Howie Klein
Dec 22, 20223 min
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),...
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Howie Klein
Dec 13, 20227 min
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...
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Howie Klein
Nov 16, 20225 min
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...
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Howie Klein
Nov 12, 20223 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, 20224 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, 20223 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, 20227 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, 20226 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, 20226 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, 20213 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, 20215 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, 20218 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, 20218 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, 20216 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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