The Scale of Billionairesโ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics
NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics.
We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races.
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Unrestrained billionaire spending is not just going to sway the White House (see: Elon Musk in 2024), but to races for governor, Congress, mayor, courts, initiatives, school boards.
Here is what a former RNC chair told me.
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Truly unbelievable.
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Of course ๐คฌ
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Happy International Womenโs Day!
Today, we honor the strength, ambition and resilience of women everywhere.
House Democrats are committed to standing up for womenโs rights.
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Exactly, not sure why this isn't mentioned more!!
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TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops.
CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.
08.03.2026 13:36
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I agree, horrific!
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Trump is untethered from realityโฆโฆ..the underlings are running our governmentโฆโฆRESIST
08.03.2026 13:42
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The pentagon refusing to give a simple yes or no to this question is pretty telling of itself
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Shutting an oil well isnโt like turning off a faucet.
Itโs a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse โ and an indicator the Kuwaitis donโt see choke points improving anytime soon.
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OMG, no bar is too low for a Trump nomination ๐ณ
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๐จNEW: After Trump fired Kristi Noem, Governor Gavin Newsom is formally calling on the Trump administration to redirect the remaining funds from Noemโs $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign to LA fire survivors.
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After reading the 'Careless People" book I don't think he belongs in a blue state that cares about people! Good riddance ๐
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Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of Americaโs New Gilded Age
This is our future. Just like third world countries. People wrote books and tried to warn us. No one believed it. Just like they didn't believe Project 25.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
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Who needs rules of engagement. Great way to get everyone killed. No place will feel safe.
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#USDemocracy
โ The lives of courageous little girls were destroyed. That often happens on a billionaire pedophile islandโ
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who made this
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Always the first to flee while everyone else suffers the consequences.
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But they said he was โThe peace president.โ ๐ฅด
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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โRemember what I saidโฆโ Yeah. About that. Itโs almost impressive how confidently wrong that prediction aged.
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Makes me want to vomit on my phone ๐คฎ
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Everything they've said has been a lie. And will continue to be!
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Go get em Hillary ๐๐
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Go get em Hillary ๐
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