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And today, Adam, we want to go through a number of the newly sprouted billionaire-backed groups, sometimes referred to as

movements. We can get into that, that have emerged following the devastating Kamala Harris

defeat of 2024 to see the rise of a second Trump administration. And apparently Silicon Valley

billionaires are now going to lead the charge, Adam, to save

our democracy.

And how are they going to do that?

They're going to start new organizations, new think tanks, new packs, all under the guise

of new, quote unquote, movements to push their own agenda and have Democrats win again.

Yeah. So in the last year, there's been quite a few centrist projects hatched in the swamps of

DC that all kind of have different approaches, but it's really just a variation on a theme.

They're all funded, of course, by billionaires.

We can go into who those are when we drill down the list.

But the broad theme is that in the wake of 2024, after Harris's loss, I mean, Trump's

rise, that again, we sort of are back to this whole, we're always kind of relitigating

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