Top News: When US Oligarchs Pour $1.2 Billion Into an Election, 'It's Time for Citizens United to Go'

 

January 21, 2022

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House Calls Big Oil Board Members to Testify on 'Phony' Net-Zero Pledges "It's critical that Congress holds these companies accountable and exposes the industry's fake climate pledges for the fraud that they are," said one supporter of Democrats' probe. by Jessica Corbett Saudi Bombings Kill Scores of Civilians—Including Children—in Yemen "America is complicit in this," said one critic of "this horrific war that Biden and his senior officials once promised to end." by Andrea Germanos To 'Hold Her Accountable for What She Did,' Primary Sinema Project Gets Into Gear "Kyrsten Sinema is unfit to be a United States senator," the project asserts. "Just like the filibuster itself, we need to get rid of her if we want to save our democracy before it's too late." by Brett Wilkins 'Time for Citizens United to Go': US Oligarchs Poured $1.2 Billion Into 2020 Elections The figure represents a 39-fold increase compared to spending in 2010, the first election held after the widely decried ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. by Jake Johnson

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