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15 Oct 09

Oligarchic Senate Still ‘Treasonous’ After All These Years

"Treason is a strong word, but not too strong, rather too weak, to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be."

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16 Sep 09

A Centuries-Old Principle: Keep Corporate Money Out of Elections

Thomas Jefferson declared his hope to “crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

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