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Michael Edwards retweeted
After our @LeverNews series MASTER PLAN about the Powell Memo went super viral, @JamesTalarico did a speech echoing much of our reporting.
That was when I sensed that maybe, just maybe, America was finally going to have an anti-corruption election. xitter.gq/TeamTalaricoHQ/status/…
.@JamesTalarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves.
The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties.
And it worked. Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft.
Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense.
We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.
Michael Edwards retweeted
.@JamesTalarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves.
The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties.
And it worked. Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft.
Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense.
We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.
Michael Edwards retweeted
Watch this clip from Talarico - and then let me tell you a story.
In 2024, @levernews took a big risk: We launched a reporting project aiming to unearth the never-before-reported details of the secret 50-year plot to legalize corruption in America. It was the kind of huge investment in deep reporting that most news outlets don’t make. But we made it, because I've spent almost my entire adult life focused on money-in-politics reporting - and this was the biggest money-in-politics story in American history.
Two years later, our podcast and book MASTER PLAN did not merely win the National Press Club Award — what we unearthed and exposed is now a central theme in the 2026 election.
As you can see, Talarico is recounting — and promising to fight — the master plan that we exposed. And he’s making that promise in one of America’s most high-profile Senate races.
Find the podcast and book at MasterPlanPodcast [dot] com - and pass it on.
.@JamesTalarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves.
The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties.
And it worked. Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft.
Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense.
We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.
Michael Edwards retweeted
Google announcing that schools banning AI will also lose access to Google Search is a pretty good opportunity to teach the next generation that Google isn’t the internet and that there are plenty of alternatives to its platforms. Maybe it’s time schools started exploring them.
Michael Edwards retweeted
Americans are tired of being told their needs are unrealistic by politicians who have been bought by the wealthiest people in the country.
Michael Edwards retweeted
While people on the ground did the legwork, Hasan Piker took the heat publicly. Mainstream media talked about him relentlessly, and Republicans made him the boogeyman to distract from the fact that they don’t have answers to real issues. Democrats should recognize it’s much more beneficial to make him a friend instead of a foe.
Michael Edwards retweeted
Jim Cornette Reviews Darby Allin vs. Josh Alexander on AEW Dynamite @TheJimCornette youtu.be/rJwOO_907NQ?si=W8ms… via @YouTube
Michael Edwards retweeted
The many beat the money. The people beat the corporations and special interests. Hope beat hate and fear.
Michigan, we won.
Michael Edwards retweeted
The progressive movement spent a decade building toward this moment.
The organizing. The candidates. The argument against corporate control of our lives.
We are the center of gravity in this party. Now we intend to drive the agenda.
Michael Edwards retweeted
Lessons Dems need to act on immediately after these elections:
- Shut down the Iran war and prosecute the war criminals. End aid to Israel
- Trials for every corrupt admin official
- Halt data center expansion
- Abolish ICE
- Tax the rich
- Medicare for All
Michael Edwards retweeted
A reminder that literally two days after @AbdulElSayed won his primary, @ThirdWayTweet declared war on the American Left.
Michael Edwards retweeted
Jim Cornette Reviews Ilja Dragunov & Tommaso Ciampa's Confrontation on AEW Dynamite @TheJimCornette youtu.be/tVSqdzje8ro?si=0kz1… via @YouTube
Michael Edwards retweeted
Elon - the arch criminal
Ghoul just burned 500 million to get nothing in return
Your gonna pay tax and be held accountable for your crimes
