Citizens United
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Nov 4, 2026
EleanorHOST
And I was like, wow, things have changed.
EleanorHOST
Citizens United, really? Wow.
EleanorHOST
Jesus.
EleanorHOST
It's
Joe GettyHOST
... a little this direction, a little that direction, kinda, you know, and find, find where most people are." Uh, you can't raise money on that.
Joe GettyHOST
You know what one of the most surprising things I've s- uh, I will have seen when my days come to an end in politics in, in these decades, is th- there was a to-do made about Citizens United, which freed up, um, or continued to free up, essentially, uh, corporations to donate politically.
Joe GettyHOST
Th- that was held up as something like returning to child sacrifice or, you know, uh, taking, uh, I don't know, taking the vote away from women, that it was a, a cataclysm on, on par with the, [laughs] the meteorite that took out the dinosaurs, and it's not really affected much.
Joe GettyHOST
I mean, sure, lobbyists and blah, blah, blah, but they've always exist.
Allison McCagueHOST
reliever It's crazy.
Allison McCagueHOST
Anyway, about Citizens United.
Allison McCagueHOST
But, yeah, so it's just, you know, interesting to see this stuff unveiled.
Allison McCagueHOST
This is all a matter of public record.
BrendanHOST
That's where this shit fucking comes from.
BrendanHOST
Now, another key strike was Citizens United, a Supreme Court case that he brought in 2010, which gave corporations the right to donate unlimited funds to campaigns through super PACs.
BrendanHOST
Very few things have been more corrosive to democracy than that.
DanielHOST
Than Steve Bannon.
BrendanHOST
Well, than Citizens United specifically.
BrendanHOST
Yeah.
BrendanHOST
But also all of his other
Jack ArmstrongHOST
You can't raise money on that.
Joe GettyHOST
You know what? One of the most surprising things I've I will have seen when my days come to an end in politics in these decades is there was a to do made about Citizens United, which freed up or continued to free up essentially corporations to donate politically.
Joe GettyHOST
That was held up as something like returning to child sacrifice or, you know, taking, I don't know, taking the vote away from women.
Joe GettyHOST
That it was a cataclysm on par with the meteorite that took out the dinosaurs.
Jack ArmstrongHOST
You can't raise money on that.
Joe GettyHOST
You know what? One of the most surprising things I will have seen when my days come to an end in politics in these decades is there was a to-do made about Citizens United, which freed up or continued to free up essentially corporations to donate politically.
Joe GettyHOST
That was held up as something like returning to child sacrifice or, you know, taking, I don't know, taking the vote away from women.
Joe GettyHOST
That it was a cataclysm on par with the meteorite that took out the dinosaurs.
Mehdi HasanHOST
Angie Nixon is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and has served in the Florida State House of Representatives since 2020.
Mehdi HasanHOST
Her campaign is calling for, among other things, Medicare for all, abolishing ICE, raising the federal minimum wage, putting a 5% wealth tax on billionaires, giving statehood to Washington, D.C., getting rid of super PACs and overturning Citizens United.
Mehdi HasanHOST
But polls show her a few points behind her opponent, incumbent Republican Ashley Moody, who succeeded Marco Rubio when he joined the Trump cabinet last year.
Mehdi HasanHOST
So can Nixon pull off a surprise victory next week and make history? Angie Nixon joins me now.
Ocean FittsGUEST
And the state, we definitely should try to help people more because that's what the state is there to do.
Ocean FittsGUEST
Currently, we have a state that is... fighting for its own interests, which is not the interest of the people, and fighting for corporate interests, which corporations are famously not people, no matter what Citizens United says.
Ocean FittsGUEST
I don't believe it.
Chris CanoHOST
You know, I'm up here in the DC, Maryland, Virginia area, but Delaware is also part of the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia peninsula.
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Number 11, release the full Epstein files with nothing redacted except for the information of the victims.
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Number 12, ban corporate PACs by overturning Citizens United.
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Number 13, mandatory disclosure for all organizations that donate to political campaigns.
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Number 14, mandatory police body cams.
Tara DevlinHOST
There have been studies about the Telecommunications Act, of 96 that we can trace the divided country back to when clinton signed the telecommunications act and the media began to consolidate especially that created rush limbaugh fox news and here we are 30 years later and we're completely divided and it used to drive me united too
Mike MalloyGUEST
let's not forget citizens united that's another citizens
Tara DevlinHOST
united yeah
Mike MalloyGUEST
Yep.
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