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Sunday Dose of Democracy:

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump gets bad news amid effort to appeal $83 million verdict
Turns out the self-declared "billionaire" doesn't exactly have $83 million lying around...and he's not gonna be happy with how he has to get it.

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The rise of American oligarchy
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US cracked down hard on the Russian oligarch class that grew fat feasting on the carcass that was the once-public assets of the USSR. However, the trail of their ill-gotten wealth leads right back to...the United States? It turns out that America is a haven for shady foreign money, the natural ending point of an entirely legal financial network through which the ill-gotten wealth of the world's elites are laundered through various firms, shell corporations, and trusts. That's how oligarch money "made its way into the hands of nannies in California, fracking firms in Texas, wealth managers in New York, startups in Silicon Valley, and factory workers in the Midwest," writes Tim Murphy in Mother Jones.

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Winning an open Arizona seat will take back the House
Yassamin Ansari for Congress: Winning in Arizona means we get our majority back — and losing means that some of the most unhinged election-denying, democracy-hating Trumpers in the country will be headed to Washington. Yassamin Ansari is a fantastic candidate running for Congress in a crucial Arizona seat to make sure we deliver President Biden a new majority for his second term! Can you chip in to help keep Trump's most radical minions out of office?

The top 10 catastrophic failures of the Ron DeSantis campaign
The humiliating collapse of Ronald Dion DeSantis will go down in history as one of the worst political campaigns ever run. The presidential wannabe dropped an astounding $53 million to garner just 23,420 votes in Iowa before dropping out after less than six months on the road. What was his Achilles high heel? Was it the bungled campaign launch on Twitter with Elon Musk that nobody watched? Was it hiring an army of terminally online, Nazi-loving 22-year-olds to run his campaign? Spending more money on private jets than on TV advertising? Spending the majority of the campaign obsessively complaining about Dr. Fauci and trying to bully LGBTQ children? PuddingGate? The fake video of him going "mmm hungwy?" Or was it his shocking lack of charisma and inability to produce genuinely human facial expressions? Nobody knows for sure, but what we do know is that...HE GONE!

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Philanthropy in America is broken
The rich and the wealthy love to brag about their "philanthropy." Celebrate me, peasants! Look how generous I am with my vast fortune that somehow never seems to get smaller no matter how much I "give" away to the personal foundation that I use to avoid paying billions in taxes and never actually give out any money! That's right folks, those charitable foundations that hold huge galas where the wealthy get their boots licked are nothing more than an extension of their investment portfolios. Over the past five years, according to the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), median payout rates for foundations worth $1 billion or more ranged from 4.6 and 5.4 percent. At the end of 2019, per the IRS, there were 1,328 grant-making foundations valued at $100 million or more. These entities doled out $48.5 billion to various causes that year — about 7 percent of their combined $703 billion in year-end assets. Meanwhile, they pocketed investment income (dividends, interest, etc.) of about $44 billion and tax-deductible gifts of $38.5 billion, paying well under $1 billion in taxes. Like everything else in this country, the charitable donation system is rigged in favor of the wealthy and designed to keep money flowing into their pockets.

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BREAKING: Republican scheme STUNS the entire nation
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This is unbelievable.