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Alison Lundergan Grimes and Kentuckians Swamped by Corporate Dark Money
The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition’s millions of dollars represents the method by which we have had our democracy co-opted by big money
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Republicans Have Cut Funding So Deeply That Government Employees Can’t Do Their Jobs
Republicans have campaigned on an anti-government platform for the past two elections and they have succeeded in hampering the government through their spending cuts and their precious sequester.
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Let’s Get this Straight, the Kochs Are Menacing, Soros is Benevolent
Conservatives incessantly drone on and on about George Soros as a villain, when the Koch brothers are discussed. Who’s the real villain?
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The Selling of our Democracy:How AT&T Owns Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, and John Boehner
You may think that Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, and John Boehner would have very little in common, but in the chummy world of corporate special interest politics, all three of them share a top benefactor. According to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity the top backer of the careers of all three politicians was telecom giant AT&T, but beyond ideology these three share a special interest money bond.
