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Robert Reich – Foreign Cash Is Hijacking American Democracy

August 8, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Robert Reich – Foreign Cash Is Hijacking American Democracy
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.

Bernie Sanders Received More Individual Campaign Contributions Than Obama’s Entire 2008 Campaign

April 12, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders Received More Individual Campaign Contributions Than Obama’s Entire 2008 Campaign
By Brian Hanley, HuffingtonPost

( Apr. 12, 2016 12:59 pm ET) — Bernie Sanders’ fundraising success will no doubt go down as the secret sauce that helped Sanders defeat the well-oiled Clinton machine in the last seven delegate contests. Sanders is not only outraising Clinton, but in many key states such as Wisconsin, he is outspending her as well. Most impressively, Sanders, unlike Clinton, is campaigning without the support of an affiliated super PAC.

Backed by one of the most well-organized grassroots campaigns in American history, Sanders has raked in close to 7 million individual donations. That’s more unique contributions than Obama received during his entire 2008 campaign.

Sanders Campaign Raises $6 million in Final Fundraising Blitz

March 1, 2016 by PublicSkeleton Leave a Comment

Bernie Sanders: $42 million raised in February
By Tom LoBianco, CNN

Washington (Mar. 1, 2016 07:29 am ET) — Bernie Sanders’ campaign announced early Tuesday morning it had raised more than $42 million in February and raised $6 million alone in a final fundraising blitz Monday.

The Sanders campaign announced Monday morning it had raised $36 million in February and set a goal of $40 million. But the coordinated push from the campaign and its supporters, including Democracy For America, helped Sanders beat that goal.

Robert Reich – Foreign Cash Is Hijacking American Democracy

Bernie Sanders Received More Individual Campaign Contributions Than Obama’s Entire 2008 Campaign

Sanders Campaign Raises $6 million in Final Fundraising Blitz

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