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1) Dark money
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xviii, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Fresh from the first $10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy. Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic Robert W. McChesney explain how US elections are...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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xiii, 396 pages ; 24 cm.
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For nearly forty years, Washington and much of the American public have held up "disclosure" and "campaign finance laws" as ideals, and the path to cleaner and freer elections. This narrative will show, through disturbing, first-person accounts, how both have instead been hijacked by the Left as weapons against free speech and free association, becoming the most powerful tools of those intent on silencing their political opposition. Democrats have...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by the true story of the biggest bank heist of all time, Harry Barber recounts how in 1972 a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempted to steal $30 million in illegal campaign contributions from President Richard Nixon's secret fund. But the plan quickly goes sideways, prompting the biggest manhunt in FBI history with more than 125 agents assigned to the case.
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"Control of the country is up for grabs--and Republicans are rigging the game in their favor. Twenty-two states have passed restrictions on voting. Ruthless gerrymandering has given the party a long-term grip on Congress. And the Supreme Court has gutted campaign finance laws, boosting candidates backed by big money. The GOP may be on the point of a crackup, but it's moving in lockstep to limit the power of progressive voters. It would be worrying...
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"In the wake of the Obama presidency, a group of young charismatic conservatives catapulted onto the American political and cultural scenes, eager to thwart nationwide pushes for greater equity and inclusion. They dreamed of a cultural revolution--online and off--that would offer a forceful alternative to the progressive politics that were dominating American college campuses. In Raising Them Right, a gripping, character-driven read and investigative...
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Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against "big government" led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative...
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