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'Thanks to Citizens United': 50 Megadonors Have Put Over $1.5 Billion Into 2024 Election (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 2 months ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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The top 50 contributors "skew Republican" but the list includes donors to both major parties, an analysis from The Washington Postshowed.

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[–] TokenBoomer 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Voting matters for local elections.

[–] barnaclebutt 4 points 2 months ago

Voting matters if you ever want to stop situations in which 50 billionaires think it is okay to try to buy an election. Nobody likes this crap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Basically how I imagine it's going to be for along time. Federal is mostly nothing but damage control, state is the same depending on where you are, local is where you have the most impact