I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

Chevron tried to buy the election, but voters said we are not for sale.

As soon as you enter the borders of the town, you see that it's a battleground.

You see billboards everywhere. You see signs on every corner. And you can tell that someone is really trying very hard to win an election.

We have a community that is clear that we cannot be bought.

And that is what the voters said this past Tuesday.

They gave a resounding vote of saying, no, Chevron. We're not supporting

your candidates. We're supporting the good, progressive candidates. So it's been a real,

real success for grassroots democracy.

Thanks for joining us.

Welcome. In Tuesday's elections, money tore its way through our political system like a flash fire

and burned its way right down to the foundations.

The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics finds that in races for the House of Representatives,

the candidate who spent the most money prevailed about 94% of the

time, in Senate races about 81% of the time. Much of it was dark money from shadowy groups

that don't have to disclose their donors. You may never know who really owns the senator

or representative, the governor or state judge, you voted

for. In this penumbra politics where corporations and billionaires can safely and secretly

purchase shares in America, Inc., the big winners on Tuesday were the Republican bagman

Karl Rove, whose candidates prevailed in at least six

senatorial races, and the Organization Americans for Prosperity, backed by the oligarchs, Charles

and David Koch, who added at least five Republican senators to their portfolios.

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