Instead, Democrats are sticking to their original plan, and channeled Exxon Mobil in an announcement refusing to bar members who take fossil fuel money.
After Susan Collins' vote for Brett Kavenaugh, whoever steps up to challenge her in 2020 will find an army of small-donor supporters has already assembled to power their campaign.
The man who as a candidate railed against our “rigged system” is, as president, only too happy to do a little rigging himself.
Mark Mazzetti, investigative correspondent for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Robert Mueller's consideration of undue influence on Donald Trump's Middle East policies on behalf of Saudi Arabia and UAE.
One insurgent candidate says the bottom-up movement he’s a part of will ultimately be recognized by the party as not just right, but the smartest way forward. “The people at the top will take a little while longer to catch up with what’s going on at the bottom."
What did we learn about money in politics during the Earth’s ride around the Sun this year? The Trump Russia investigation could turn on campaign finance law.
The progressive firebrand appears to be staking out her role in a potential Clinton administration as a bulwark against the influence of Wall Street.
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We are dealing with “a worldwide capitalistic system in which oligarchs, corporate CEOs and celebrity heads of state mingle to form a global elite that dictates a global agenda."
In a Senate floor speech on the sixth anniversary of Citizens United, Senator Elizabeth Warren laid out steps that Congress and the Administration can take to root out the influence of money in politics.
“Are we on the side of working people or big-money interests? You can’t be for Wall Street and the working people of this country.”
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