Hey, Master Plan listeners in the Master Plan podcast feed. It's Jared here. I'm one of the producers

at the lever and of Master Plan. And if you listen to the series, which came out about a year ago

in the fall of 2024, you know it told the 50-year story about how big money and corruption

took over American politics. Well, I have some

exciting news. After a year of work, David Soroda and I have turned it into a book. It's called

Master Plan, the hidden plot to legalize corruption in America co-authored by me and Mr. David Soroda.

And this is a big moment for the lever.

While a lot of other news outlets are cutting back on doing print,

we at the lever decided to do the opposite.

We launched our own book imprint to put out this book and to keep bringing this kind of long-form investigative journalism

into new formats. And if you stick around after this, you'll hear our brand new master

plan book trailer, voiced by David. You know, the question came up, why do it as a book?

And the answer is, is it let us go deeper.

Pick up all the things that got left on the cutting room floor when we're doing the

podcast, the new evidence, the documents, the stories we just couldn't fit into these episodes.

You'll see how Lewis Powell's secret memo in the early 70s became the corporate world's battle plan,

how people like Joseph Coors, Roger Ailes, and Leonard Leo built a machine to dominate politics

over a long-term span, which is manifesting itself right now in Trump 2.0. And we also track how court

cases like Citizens United turned money into speech and power. So, Sarota and I are very proud

of how this book turned out, and we're really grateful to everyone who pre-ordered books and made this project

possible, and really are the people that make a reader-funded newsroom possible.

So if you want to grab a copy of the book, it's available now at all the major booksellers,

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