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The Trillionaire Kill Chain
by Jason Sattler
Every billionaire is a policy failure. Every trillionaire is part of a kill chain.
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How Elon Musk Bought the Presidency
Theodore Roosevelt named the threat in 1910. It took 114 years for someone to finally prove him right. How was it legal for one man to spend $291 million to elect the person who controlled the agencies investigating him — and then watch $2.37 billion in federal exposure quietly disappear? The answer isn't 2024. It isn't even Citizens United. It goes back to 1976, and it took fifty years of narrow rulings, split votes, and a regulatory agency that chose again and again not to do its job. Episode 1 maps Stage One of the kill chain: Reconnaissance. With campaign finance attorneys Erin Chlopak and Brendan Fischer of the Campaign Legal Center.
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