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4) Dark money
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
It examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana, a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide, to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"While figures like George Soros, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg are known for their hefty political donations, few Americans have heard of Arabella Advisors. Even more powerful than these standalone billionaires, Arabella is a secretive "dark money" operation that channels megadonor funds into leftist political causes via pop-up groups designed to look like innocent grassroots outfits. The sheer quantity of money that has flowed through Arabella's...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Campaign finance reform has always been motivated by a definition of democracy that does not count corporations as citizens and holds that self-government works best by reducing political inequality. In the early years of the twentieth century, Congress recognized the strength of these principles by prohibiting corporations from making campaign contributions, passing a disclosure law, and setting limits on campaign expenditures. These reforms were...
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