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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 2h

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 9h

NEW: Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the Citizens United decision & today released a memoir still defending his ruling that lets oligarchs buy elections - yet he's also saying he worries democracy may not survive.

And none of the media he's granting interviews has asked him about Citizens United.

Anthony Kennedy Is Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This

The retired Supreme Court Justice who authored Citizens United is suddenly worried about the future of democracy.

www.levernews.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 9h

NEW: Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the Citizens United decision & today released a memoir still defending his ruling that lets oligarchs buy elections - yet he's also saying he worries democracy may not survive.

And none of the media he's granting interviews has asked him about Citizens United.

Anthony Kennedy Is Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This

The retired Supreme Court Justice who authored Citizens United is suddenly worried about the future of democracy.

www.levernews.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 13h

Just gonna say it: Amid all the corruption & wreckage, Ezra/NYT amplifying Pod Save Guy & Maron ending his show with a valorizing interview of Obama feels together like a troll-ish reminder that liberal influencers will forever refuse to reckon with the betrayals that created conditions for Trumpism

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14h

Get the book at LeverNews.com/book - or wherever you buy your books. And please pass it on!

MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America

A new book adapted from the award-winning podcast.

LeverNews.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14h

🚨Our new book MASTER PLAN is now out - it exposes never-before-seen documents & photos exposing the secret plot to legalize corruption.

You may think you know the story of corruption, but you don’t.

Nobody has known the full story because the details were secret - until now👇

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 15h

Our new book Master Plan releases today — the same day that Citizens United author Anthony Kennedy is releasing his memoir defending that decision legalizing corruption.

Our book exposes the untold story of Kennedy’s time as a corporate lobbyist handing out cash to politicians.

LeverNews.com/book

MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America

A new book adapted from the award-winning podcast.

LeverNews.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17h

CBS News just aired a long profile valorizing Justice Anthony Kennedy without even once mentioning the Citizens United ruling that he authored and that empowered corporations and oligarchs to buy elections.

This omission exemplifies how the master plan works.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Lewis Powell authored the Powell Memo demanding a corporate takeover of America & he engineered court rulings helping corporations buy elections.

Amid her billionaire-backed takeover of CBS News, Bari Weiss published a former News Corp exec reimagining Powell as a “thoughtful & measured" moderate.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Get our book MASTER PLAN here: LeverNews.com/book

Read The Guardian piece here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher

A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermin...

www.theguardian.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

The oligarch takeover of media aims to shield billionaires, corporations & politicians from accountability.

It's the culmination of a 50-year master plan detailed in never-before-seen documents exposed in our book releasing this week.

We preview the documents in The Guardian.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Over on the other site, revelations about JD Vance’s court case in our new book MASTER PLAN are now trending.

The book is out tomorrow. Order it here — and pass it on: LeverNews.com/book

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

a comment from a person who 1) expects nobody to remember that he ran a populist campaign for president and then literally "foamed the runway" (his aide's words!) for his bank donors while they foreclosed on millions of Americans and 2) is certain the interviewer would never dare ask about that

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This @rollingstone.com piece draws on our new book MASTER PLAN which is out tomorrow: LeverNews.com/Book

Read the Rolling Stone piece here www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections

J.D. Vance and other MAGA interests are working to get the Supreme Court to end restrictions on campaign-spending limits.

www.rollingstone.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

🚨NEW: A case at the Supreme Court cites Trump reportedly promising oil donors favors as proof that pay-to-play influence is so pervasive that bribery laws must be narrowed so pay-to-play is no longer a prosecutable crime.

The case is represented by a Trump-connected law firm.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Worth adding: This is not something that only works if every other state does it.

When operating in a state, out-of-state corporations must comply with the same state laws that in-state corporations are subjected to. So each state can do this in a very real way.

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

More details at these links

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

transparentelection.org

The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant

By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.

www.americanprogress.org

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Some great news: @levernews.com's total subscribership has increased 25% in the last 90 days.

Overall, our subscribership is now up 73% in 2025.

This is fueled by our scoops, our Lever Time podcast & our new daily newsletter Lever Daily.

A huge achievement for our team. Onward.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Full @rollingstone.com report here

The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections

J.D. Vance and other MAGA interests are working to get the Supreme Court to end restrictions on campaign-spending limits.

www.rollingstone.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Full piece here

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats

It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.

www.thebulwark.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

It's the corruption, stupid

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

It's kinda incredible that Barack Obama turning hope and change into more of the same created the conditions for Trump and MAGA - and yet as far as I can tell, Obama has never once been asked in an interview about his insane and self-serving "violence to the social order" defense of what he did.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

A day before our book MASTER PLAN is being released, the book is already #5 in its category...seems to suggest there's a lot of interest in the never-before-told story of where all this endemic corruption actually came from

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