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Bill Moyers talks with investigative journalists Kim Barker and Andy Kroll about the role of dark money in the upcoming midterm elections, and how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has opened the floodgates of corporate cash into our electoral system, with three times as much money having been raised for this year’s elections as four years ago.
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Miles Kampf-Lassin, a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School in Deliberative Democracy and Globalization, is a Web Editor at In These Times. Follow him on Twitter @MilesKLassin
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