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But he was “shocked” by Biden’s performance in office and stepped up his dark money donations to Republicans.

At the time, Bankman-Fried thought about appearing on Carlson’s former Fox TV show and publicizing that while he was most famously associated with donating to Democrats, he’d given lots of dark money to Republicans, too.

Dark money, in the Yank sense of that term, plays virtually no role in European electoral campaigns, which tend to be tightly controlled, brief in duration and mostly financed by the state.

We’ve spent years normalizing leaders in this country who are simply unwilling to stand up to power, whether it be corporate interests, dark money groups, or even foreign influence.

The court has delivered a series of democracy-damaging decisions that have unleashed billions in dark money, gutted the Voting Rights Act, and protected and enabled coast-to-coast gerrymanders of U.S.