Analysis: midterm spending reshaped since Citizens United
How did such a small group — which happens to include some truly terrible people — gain so much power? Part of the answer is that the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens’ United decision opened the floodgates for vast sums of money to flow into politics. The larger part of the answer is that the vast
conifergirl.bsky.social127power of the extremely wealthy stems from the vast concentration of wealth in their hands, which is literally more than an order of magnitude greater than their share of wealth a few decades ago.
ChuckBobb23There's more than just buying going on. Nobody in US history ever won all the swing states with less than 1/2 the popular vote. The odds against that happening just outside the margin for automatic recounts were 2 trillion to 1.
avvinator.bsky.social21As long as CU and legalized bribery exists there is no representation.
JPWKeeper19Here is the rub though; money doesn't literally buy elections. It buys things that convince people to vote a certain way. If voters weren't so gullible, all the money in the world would barely move the needle. Want money out of politics? Make it so it doesn't work anymore.
RN Mayhem15And here we are today.  AIPAC is MAGA and they were trying to rig an election in Michigan by running two of their candidates while deceiving Americans into thinking they actually had a choice. Both establishment candidates were MaGA
shaunlb14and the Electoral College needs to go.
Elon Musk poured an unprecedented $446M into the 2026 #midterms 🚨 A visual breakdown reveals the scale of his Republican spending—including pumping $216M into his America PAC to blanket battleground races. Shockingly, this represents less than 0.05% of his estimated $924B net worth 💰💰💰
Wendy the Woke24If he can afford to spend that much to buy politicians, he can afford to pay more in taxes.
Tim Murphy6The Buffet family just donated over $1B for humanitarian aid to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Priorities.
Brent Toderian20He thinks he can buy the United States with a tiny fraction of his net worth. Is he right?
GJRboston6Picture it this way: If you had $300 and spent 44 cents on elections - you wouldn't really care about it
The Sorry Miz Jackson6Nobody needs a billion dollars, let alone $924B. Just sayin’.
Debrianna Mansini-I’m Spartacus5END FUCKING OLIGARCHS AND BILLIONAIRES It’s a matter of national security. #WealthCap
Lark LaTroy4Should everything turn out for the better on November 4th; I think we should all open new Twitter accounts for the sheer pleasure of pointing, laughing, and calling out all the money this illegal alien lost. He'd really hate that. Especially when we point out how much more he's GOING TO LOSE.
47has34Felonies4And we just learned Doge activity at the White House sent Russia our data via starlink. If he doesn't put Republicans in office to protect him and pay him he knows he's going down!
FranklyMyDear4Elon Musk, Trump, his GOP Congressional enablers, Citizens United and the 6 Republicans on the Supreme Court have done more to harm to American democracy than any terrorist, socialist or communist in the country's entire history.
