"On March 9, Mike Baker and Steven Rich of the New York Times published a long exposé of the corruption of American politics by billionaires."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2026

March 12, 2026

In Ohio today, Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy launched a $10 million TV and digital ad campaign to run until Election Day.

Letters from an American

"They explain how underwriting political campaigns from those for local school boards to the presidency has enabled the very wealthy to lock in their policy preferences for tax cuts, deregulation, and cuts to the social safety net while also steering valuable government contracts to themselves."

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For more reporting today on this topic of how billionaires have decisively bought the US and its political system in the Trump era, see:

Caleb Ecarma:

https://oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/how-billionaires-are-hijacking-us

Wajahat Ali and Qasim Rashid:

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-dirty-money-is-buying-democrats

Thom Hartmann"

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-presidency-scam-how-republicans-644

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How billionaires are hijacking U.S. politics

A New York Times report published Monday analyzed how America’s billionaire class increasingly controls U.S.

Oligarch Watch

@wdlindsy

Billionaires just talk a lot, that's how they influence elections.*

*money = speech