The campaign of the Democratic gubernatorial candidate isn’t trying to make voters contemptuous of Abbott for his disability, they’re trying to make voters contemptuous of him for being a particularly cold-hearted brand of hypocrite.
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Mailers Sent By Koch Group Appear Designed to Misdirect Voters in Key U.S. Senate Race
North Carolina election officials are investigating a mailer that the Americans for Prosperity Foundation sent to thousands of would-be voters in the state that contained bad information about registration.
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Republicans Make Big Advances Thanks to Citizens United
The increase in corporate money in elections has favored one party over the other.
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The Stupidity of Hating Your Senator for Living Where You’ve Sent Her to Work
Should we really get mad if our representatives spend too much time in Washington, where they’re supposed to be doing their jobs?
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Meet the Billionaires Backing Team Blue With a Megaphone Only Money Can Buy
Conservatives have the Kochs and Rupert Murdoch, but progressives have their mega-donors, too.
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McConnell’s Appeal to Millionaire Donors Makes Case for Constitutional Amendment on Political Money
The constitutional amendment deemed “radical” by the Senate minority leader simply affirms that money is not speech and that no one, however wealthy or powerful, has a constitutional right to spend unlimited sums to influence our elections.
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The Continuing Agonies of the Super-Rich
Republican fundraising is suffering because their big donors are worried they’ll be “demonized.” Can’t this nation spare some compassion for them?
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Progressives Win Big In Democratic Congressional Primaries
This week’s Democratic congressional primaries amounted to a Progressive Super Tuesday. And it is the latest chapter in a larger story we’ve seen play out in American politics since the Wall Street economic wreck.
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In Yesterday’s Primaries, It Was Money That Mattered
“The establishment strikes back” doesn’t quite tell the whole story.
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The Brothers Koch: Family Drama and Disdain for Democracy
Lawsuits are the billionaire brothers’ weapon of choice—against each other—writes Daniel Schulman in his first-rate new bio. But buying our democracy, and maybe killing it, is pure self-interest.
