Soft Corruption: Threats, Not Just Checks

Air Date: 3–18-26

Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:

• Ch. 1 - The dark history of money in politics, aka: corruption
• Ch. 2 - What the left must do to actually win
• Ch. 3 - What the rest of the world can teach America
• SOLVED! BACKSTAGE: Beyond the Algorithm (Members Only!): The reports of Christian fundamentalist "talk" in the military as the US attacked Iran

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REFERENCES

David Sirota Explains How Money Rewrote American Democracy - Current Affairs

The Left Is Losing Because We're Not Confrontational Enough - (From 2022) Current Affairs

Searching the Globe for Answers to America's Thorniest Problems - Current Affairs

BACKSTAGE

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon," Return of Jesus - Jonathan Larsen (Substack)

• https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanlarsen/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for

US troops were told war on Iran was 'all part of God's divine plan', watchdog alleges - The Guardian

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric

EXTRAS:

(Buying these books, or another book, after clicking the links below helps support indie bookstores and this show!)

BOOK: "Master Plan: the Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America" by David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher

PODCAST: "Master Plan" by The Lever

ARTICLE: JD Vance and SCOTUS Case - Rolling Stone

BOOK: "Hostile Takeover" by David Sirota

BOOK: "Another World is Possible" by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

ARTICLE: How Candidates Are Using Winks and Posts to Seek Crypto and A.I. Cash - The New York Times

ARTICLE: "The Huge Billionaire Election Influence In Numbers—Nearly One-Fifth Of All Donations" - Forbes

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