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Rep. Dean Phillips

@RepDeanPhillips

What good are caps on individual contributions when candidates increasingly outsource their campaigns to Super PACs and independent expenditure committees? What an abhorrent, corrupt, and anti-democratic system the political duopoly protects and enables.

Rich donors take major advantage of a loophole in Portland’s public campaign financing system

The ability to give unlimited amounts to political action committees that support candidates is, this year’s election shows, a fundamental loophole in the city’s efforts to curb campaign spending –...

5:06 PM · May 16, 2022

SCOTUS has fallen

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I just wish there was some government body that could write laws to stop this kind of dark money getting into our elections. Oh well, guess we just take it.

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Reminder that Ken Griffin of Citadel Securities is the number one GOP donor this election cycle. #CitadelScandal #NakedShorts #KenGriffinLied

@realFireblazes

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@RepDeanPhillips

and

The individual suffers while the corporations buy Congress

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@realFireblazes

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And now a person can "loan" his campaign endless amounts of money.

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