The (Lewis) Powell Movement

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Lewis F. Powell Jr. - Wikipedia

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The Memo

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The Powell Memo​

Sep 3, 2024 Master Plan podcast

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A seemingly moderate corporate lawyer grows alarmed by anti-corruption reformers’ policy wins and writes a manifesto detailing how corporations and oligarchs can dominate American politics. Months later, he’s confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court by senators unaware that his manifesto is going viral among the business elite.


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The Secret Task Force​

Sep 10, 2024 Master Plan podcast

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How did corporate executives and politicians turn Lewis Powell’s memo from a blueprint into a master plan — and begin executing it? In this episode, we uncover proof of a secret “Powell Memo Task Force,” as well as clandestine meetings involving America’s most powerful businessmen, a future president, and an ambitious young media consultant. The results would change history.


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I thought this thread was going to be about JPow.

 

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I thought this thread was going to be about JPow.

Problem corrected.

 

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David Sirota - Wikipedia

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The 50 Year Plan To Legalize Corrupt Elections! w/ David Sirota​

Sep 11, 2024
Never-before-reported 50-year plot to legalize corruption. The plot began in the 1970s and culminated in the most recent Supreme Court term — and in the Project 2025 plan that has dominated the current election.


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Corporate personhood - Wikipedia

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James L. Buckley - Wikipedia

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Corporations Are People, My Friend​

Sep 17, 2024 Master Plan podcast

You might remember Mitt Romney’s infamous line: “Corporations are people, my friend.” But where did this idea come from? In this episode (https://www.levernews.com/master-plan...) : how the Ford Administration and the Powell Memo movement turned to the Supreme Court to establish the precedent that legalized corruption: money is speech, and corporations are entitled to First Amendment rights.


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The Maverick​

Sep 24, 2024 Master Plan podcast

When five U.S. senators get caught pressuring a regulator on behalf of a financial magnate, they become known as the “Keating Five.” The public is predictably outraged. But what no one expects is that one of those senators will learn from his mistakes and become the staunchest campaign finance reformer in decades.


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Episode 7: Rise of the Machine​

Oct 1, 2024 Master Plan podcast

After a series of setbacks in the push to legalize corruption, the master planners know they must take over the U.S. Supreme Court and halt the trend of Republican-appointed justices siding with campaign finance reformers. So in the early 2000s, they deploy their new judicial machine in an epic battle to try to permanently change the courts from the bottom up. This is part one of a two-part story about how the Roberts Court was built.


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Shock and Awe​

Oct 8, 2024
As President George W. Bush declares “Mission Accomplished” in the Iraq War, his administration wages a different war with swing-state senators defying his judicial nominees. Operatives like Leonard Leo and Brett Kavanaugh seize the moment to try to dramatically shift the balance of the Supreme Court. But when Bush goes off script and nominates a trusted legal aide for a Supreme Court vacancy, the conservative legal movement launches an insurgency. This is part two of our story about the creation of the Roberts Court.


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Episode 9: Going Big​

Oct 15, 2024 Master Plan podcast

An anti-abortion legal activist starts using the federal courts to chip away at campaign finance restrictions, setting his sights on the Supreme Court. Indiana lawyer James Bopp Jr. engineers the Citizens United case and hand-tailors it for Justice Anthony Kennedy’s storied swing vote — setting him up for an explosive 5-4 ruling that would devastate campaign finance law.


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Episode 10: The Heist​

Oct 22, 2024 Master Plan podcast

Unleashed by the Citizens United ruling, the master planners launch a three-part heist to crack the vault protecting democracy itself. First, the schemers take out the security cameras monitoring dark money. Then, they disarm the last campaign finance cops on the beat. Finally, they pull off a getaway so prosecutors can’t charge them as they run off with the loot.


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Episode 11: Hell Or High Water​

Oct 29, 2024 Master Plan podcast

We all live in the master planners’ world now, immersed in an ocean of corruption. The 2024 Republican presidential campaign is bankrolled by billionaires, while corporate interests’ power was in full display at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. What will it take to reclaim our democracy? Is there any hope of reversing the master plan?


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