#1653 Money-N-Politics: SuperPACS, Crypto, Billionaires, and Public Funding of Elections
Air Date: 9-6-2024
We're living in the world that dark money in politics and Citizen's United built. But since that Supreme Court ruling in 2010, we've invented cryptocurrency that promises to be a brand new source of opacity and financial power built on smoke and mirrors.
Read more#TBT #1152 Rise of the Oligarchs like the Ones Taking Clarence Thomas on Trips (Money in Politics) (Throwback)
#1306 Kochland: How We All Became Residents of a Libertarian Fever Dream
Air Date: 9–17-2019
Today we take a look at the lives and legacies of the Koch Brothers. Or, put more pointedly, we look at how two decedents of a bonafide conspiracy theorist have almost single-handedly doomed us to endure runaway climate chaos while suffering from severely degraded labor standards and a broken democracy.
Read more#1152 Rise of the oligarchy (Money in Politics)
#1117 We were founded to resist corruption, now it’s all we know
#1081 Where the Democrats went wrong and how to bring them back
Air Date: 2-21-2017
#1043 Building momentum, making progress (Money in Politics)
Air Date: 09-20-2016
Today we look at some of the structures of money in politics and how the tide is beginning to turn
Read more#996 Heart of Dark Money (Money in Politics)
Air Date: 03-04-2016
Today we look at the influence of dark money in politics generally as well as the moneyed interests that have been successfully working for decades to make the Democratic party more conservative
Read more#977 Legal corruption and how to fix it (Money in Politics)
Air Date: 12-18-15
Today we look at the fundamental barrier to democracy in the US and the veritable swarm movements springing up to tear it down
Read more#957 Citizens demanding equal power (Money in politics)
Air date: 10-2-15
Today we take a look at the single biggest problem plaguing our political system and the two strongest campaigns fighting to solve it, Lessig2016.us and Wolf-Pac.com
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