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1/ #OPSEC STOP ALL CONTRACTS w/ #Palantir (Boldend) - Peter Thiel, FB #Fascism #DarkMoney

THIEL - Musk, Koch #KochNetwork Milo, Ton-That, Giesea, Thiel protĆ©gĆ©, Cernovich, Breitbart & T. $ startup ā€œWhite Nationalist Hate Groupā€ & Palantir pushed by Flynn huffpost.com/entry/clearvieā€¦
2/ ā€œPence again spoke at #HF DC of #KochNetworkā€

#Koch & White Nationalist Hate Groups Bankrolled by #DonorsTrust prominent conservative #DarkMoney fund favored by #GOP - #Koch Mercer & Devos biggest known backer of 2 #WNHG #Fascism $ #Jan6 #DISCLOSEAct exposedbycmd.org/2022/06/07/bufā€¦
3/ Koch advocacy group courts far-right Republicans it vowed to thwart
Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP - Koch family political network - #KochNetwork)
recently invited two politicians who tried vigorously to overturn the 2020 presidential election theguardian.com/us-news/2023/fā€¦
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Citizens United is one of the worst decisions SCOTUS ever made. It opened the dark money floodgates and gave special interests too much power over our elections.

We've got to #EndCitizensUnited and kick dark money out of our elections for goodā€”and I've got the bills to do it šŸ§µ
My Corporations Are Not People Act is a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court's harmful Citizens United decision and declare once and for all that corporations are NOT people. (2/8)
I've also got the SUN Act, which would bring political spending out of the shadows by requiring tax-exempt non-profit organizations that engage in political activity to publicly disclose information about their big money online donors. (3/8)
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BREAKING: New analysis finds that America's 661 billionaires pumped $1,200,000,000 into the 2020 elections.

That's double what they contributed in 2016, and 39x more than they contributed before Citizens United was decided.

It's been 12 years. It's time to #EndCitizensUnited.
But wait, there's more.

661 billionaires gave about $1 out of every $10 (9%) contributed in the 2020 election cycle.

As recently as 2010, billionaires gave *less than 1%* of all donations.

That was before the Citizens United decision.
Almost 40% of billionaire campaign contributions made since 1990 came during the 2020 election.

That's partly because billionaires' wealth grew by 1/3 between the pandemic's start and October of that year.

The richer billionaires get, the more distorted our democracy becomes.
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The IPCC news this morning should surprise no one. I am scared, and angry. But I refuse to give up. You can't give up either. We're all in this together.

But first, we've got to be honest about the facts, and clear-eyed about how and why have failed thus far. Thread:
1/ In my adult lifetime, we have gone from global political consensuses to address planet-level risks (the Montreal protocol / ozone depletion) to politicization and obfuscation of climate change to hoping the next election will change things to "oops it's too late."
2/ There is only one uncertainty. And it's on us. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviroā€¦
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ā€¢Billionaires donā€™t pay into this economy. Their cash is overseas.

ā€¢Corporations write our legislation when they pay our elected officials.

ā€¢Our healthcare is attached to our employment.

ā€¢Workers donā€™t make enough to live.

ā€¢WE KEEP LETTING IT HAPPEN. #EndCitizensUnited
The word ā€˜corporationā€™ is mentioned exactly zero times in the #USConstitution. #WeThePeople
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ā€¼ļøSCOTUSā€™ #CitizensUnited ruling allows UNLIMITED, ANONYMOUS money to support political campaignsā€”aka #corruptionā€”so we don't know all who bankrolled the rally that led to the deadly #TrumpInsurrection.

Just like 2016 Trumpā€™s campaign.

FOLLOW THE MONEY and #EndCitizensUnited.šŸ¤¬
The really bad part about DARK MONEY: *no one* other than those directly involved with funneling the dirty money into campaigns knows whoā€™s bankrolling.

It could be a US billionaire...or a foreign national. Once the $$ are here in the US, itā€™s easy to funnel $$ into politics.šŸ¤¬
Jeb Bushā€™s Super PAC got nailed with a YUGE $390,000 fine for soliciting >$1 million from #China nationals.

The Citizens United ruling LEGALIZED #corruption, loosening rules to allow hostile foreign powers to launder $$ to support US political campaigns.šŸ¤¬

#EndCitizensUnited
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Welcome to night two of our Fighting Corruption Legislative Focus week! Tonightā€™s topic will be about Campaign Finance Reform.

This thread will be short, but please know I take this topic very seriously and want our democratic processes to be as fair and transparent as possible.
The point I hope to get across tonight will be on getting big money, and the influence that can come with it, out of politics, period.

That includes corporations, foreign businesses, Super-PACS, etc.

One huge step our country can take is by overturning Citizens United.
Please read this article on why we need to @StopBigMoney and #EndCitizensUnited once and for all in America.
thefulcrum.us/amp/to-engage-ā€¦
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Spending from Super PACs and dark money groups has led to a national decay of trust in government. By allowing corporations, individuals & special interests to give unlimited amounts of money to candidates, anonymously, the Supreme Court put our democracy in a dangerous position.
People can no longer tell the difference between who is running to serve the people and who's running to serve themselves. We need to defeat this corrupting, dangerous influence & put people & community back at the center of our decision making.
That's why I've joined the call for a constitutional amendment, to close the loopholes opened by #CitizensUnited and restore trust in government.

Will you sign our petition and join the fight to #endCitizensUnited?

šŸ‘‰ sign.actiontaker.org/page/s/CU-anniā€¦
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šŸ’„ATTENTION Sun Sept 1, 2019šŸ’„ MUST WATCH
Practical Ideas to fight DARK MONEY
AMERICAN SWAMP Marathon tonight on MSNBC
#AmericanSwamp @KatyTurNBC @jacobsoboroff
#DarkMoney #KochDarkMoney #DavidKoch #MoscowMitch
Legalized Bribery
A nonprofit group #CitizensUnited
Supreme Court ruled that Corporations had the same rights as individuals and political spending was a form of free speech
Citizens United lead to SUPER PAC which can accept ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY FROM ANYONE!
TWO Restrictions
ā— Donors must be disclosed see OPENSECRETS.ORG
ā— not allowed to work for a Candidate directly
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1) I have no doubt now that, although much less deeply or extensively corrupted than the @GOP & particularly the @freedomcaucus, there is corruption tied into the heart of corporatists who call themselves @TheDemocrats ... @HouseDemocrats & @SpeakerPelosi would have otherwise...
2) ... have moved us forward as we did in Watergate days when we got rid of the corrupt Nixon regime. It is clear to me that what happened since then was not better government or better safeguards, but better, sneakier ways for all Dems and Repubs to "avoid the appearance" ...
3) ... while continuing to suck up that precious corporate and campaign finance money swelling their coffers. @realDonaldTrump and @senatemajldr and @LindseyGrahamSC are among many true villains here, but these corporatist Dems are not - CAN NOT BE - our saviors.
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@littledeekay @ldorco1 @realDonaldTrump @RedSox Most of them are the Koch, Mercer hired guns. Theyā€™re paid to enable his distractions while ramming the Koch legislative agenda through. Pence, Conway, Mulvaney... theintercept.com/2017/04/04/kocā€¦
@littledeekay @ldorco1 @realDonaldTrump @RedSox Hereā€™s the Koch agenda. Notice how closely it aligns with the current GOP legislative agenda. Read more here. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sā€¦
@littledeekay @ldorco1 @realDonaldTrump @RedSox One election, one candidate isnā€™t going to save us. Elections integrity & acting at our State level is necessary. Learn more about stopping big $ influence here at @IndivisibleTeam ā€˜s site indivisible.org/resource/how-sā€¦
Take a stand. CA is doing it & we can too. #EndCitizensUnited
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šŸ”„WHOAšŸ”„

A longtime #NRA attorney reportedly expressed ā€œconcernsā€ about the NRAā€™s ties w/#RussiašŸ‡·šŸ‡ŗand possible involvement in ILLEGALLY funneling Russian money into the 2016 election to help Donald Trumpā€¼ļøšŸ¤¬1/

h/t @traciemac_Bmore

mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-ā€¦
Former NRA board member Cleta Mitchell (also did legal work for them) is one of MANY people whom House Intel Democrats want to interview. Democratic Senate Intel investigators also are interested in what she may know about relationships btwn the NRA and wealthy Russians.šŸ§ 2/
Get this. In addition to being a gun lover (of coursešŸ™„), Mitchell is an *election law specialist* and veteran conservative operative.šŸ¤Ø

Meaning: she should know that itā€™s ILLEGAL for #RussiansšŸ‡·šŸ‡ŗto donate ANY money that is spent on political campaignsā€¼ļø 3/
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