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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

#1653 Money-N-Politics: SuperPACS, Crypto, Billionaires, and Public Funding of Elections

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

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.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Steve Macek on Dark Money - CounterSpin - Air Date 8-23-24

KP 2: Why Big Money Supports Trump - Robert Reich - Air Date 8-27-24

KP 3: Trump shifts stance on cryptocurrency to win over new bloc of voters and mega-donors - PBS Newshour - Air Date 7-29-24

KP 4: Silicon Valley's Impact on the 2024 Elections - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 7-31-24

KP 5: Dem Donors Want Harris To Bail On Biden's Best Decision - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-29-24

KP 6: Andy Levin, Pushed Out of Congress by AIPAC, Calls for Change in U.S.-Israel Policy - Democracy Now! - Air Date 8-21-24

KP 7: Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency, Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors - CounterSpin - Air Date 5-17-24

KP 8: We need to move to the public funding of elections - Bernie Sanders - Air Date 8-29-24


(49:16) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the changing sense of urgency to address money in politics


DEEPER DIVES

(52:47) SECTION A: THE SYSTEM

A1: Trump and the Billionaires Part 2 - The Socialist Program with Brian Becker - Air Date 7-16-24

A2: Steve Macek on Dark Money Part 2 - CounterSpin - Air Date 8-23-24


(1:10:02) SECTION B: FUNDING REPUBLICANS


(1:26:54) SECTION C: FUNDING DEMOCRATS


(1:34:05) SECTION D: SOLUTIONS


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Description: A composite image showing a Bitcoin in front of a pile of US cash, and a dark American flag in the background.

Credit: Composite Design: A. Hoffman. Photo 1: "Cash on table" via Pexels | License | Photo 2: American flag via Pixabay | License

 

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0:29.4

Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast.

0:37.0

We're living a world that dark money in politics and citizens united built.

0:42.0

But since that Supreme Court ruling in 2010,

0:44.4

we've also invented cryptocurrency that promises to be a brand new source of

0:48.6

opacity and financial power built on smoke and mirrors, sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today includes

0:56.2

CounterSpin, Robert Reich, the PBS News Hour, the Brian Laird Show, the majority report, Democracy Now, CounterSpen, and Bernie Sanders.

1:05.9

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more on four topics.

1:10.3

Section A, The System, Section B, funding Republicans, Section C, funding Democrats, and Section D solutions.

1:18.8

Let's start with some definition. Dark money doesn't mean funding for candidates

1:31.9

or campaigns I don't like or from groups I don't like.

1:36.0

In your June piece for the Progressive, you spell out what it is and in terms of where it can come from and what we can know about it.

1:44.0

Help us, if you would, understand just the rules around dark money.

1:50.0

Sure, so dark money and I think Anna Masoglia of open secrets gave me a really nice

1:57.5

complex definition of dark money and in the interview I did with her for this article

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