Dark Money 
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SOURCE: Truthout
4/25/2022
The Dark Money Behind KBJ Attacks Is Coming for Public Schools
by Alyssa Bowen
"Dark Money" organizations allow a small group of elite families to use their wealth to control the content of education around the country.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
8/2/2021
The Big Money Behind the Big Lie
by Jane Mayer
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Wisconsin, is a key connection between past reactionary movements and contemporary efforts to sow doubt about the integrity of elections and potentially place partisan Republicans in charge of counting future votes.
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SOURCE: NBC News
6/15/2021
Critical Race Theory Battle Invades School Boards — with Help from Conservative Groups
"The growth of school board-focused groups has coincided with a broader conservative effort to make critical race theory a national referendum on the discussion of race in America."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/8/2021
The Man Who Waited 50 Years for This Moment
Fred Wertheimer has been battling the influence of money in politics since the 1970s. Writer George Packer asks if, at age 82, he will finally match his ideas to the political moment.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/3/2021
The Far Right’s Big Money Strategy Has Poisoned Our Politics
by Marc C. Johnson
The 1976 Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo ruled that spending money to influence a campaign is free speech, launching the era of big money in politics long before the much-maligned decision in Citizens United v. FEC.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
11/17/2020
Charles Koch Got the Free-Market Dystopia He Wanted. Now He’d Like Your Approval
"The problem isn’t simply which horses a newly contrite Charles Koch chooses to back, but the extent to which his extreme wealth and his commitment to a system that enshrines the power of the rich has shaped the entire racetrack."
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