Robert Reich – Foreign Cash Is Hijacking American Democracy

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By Robert Reich, Alternet.org

(August 8, 2016 4:00 p.m.) — The biggest threats to American sovereignty are invisible digital dollars wired into U.S. election campaigns from abroad.

“Without a border, we just don’t have a country,” Donald Trump says repeatedly. For him, the biggest threats to American sovereignty are three-dimensional items that cross our borders, such as unwanted imports and undocumented immigrants.

He’s wrong. The biggest threats to American sovereignty are invisible digital dollars wired into U.S. election campaigns from abroad.

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Bernie Sanders Inspires Big Protest Against Voter Suppression in Arizona

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By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet March 28, 2016

(Mar. 28, 2016) — Fewer than a million Arizona residents turned out to vote in the primary, and just over 400,000 Democrats. However, there are over 3 million Arizonans registered. Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders stressed that this is a much lower voter turnout than expected, and that fixing the issues behind it would be detrimental for upcoming primaries.

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