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What The Lever Published This Week: 

Monopoly League Baseball

Why is a private equity firm reaping the benefits of hundreds of millions in taxpayer subsidies while taking over Minor League Baseball?

The Lever •Amos Barshad

Buying Elections Could Become A Tax Deduction

Legal operatives tied to Trump, power broker Leonard Leo, and a hate group are aiming to make dark-money donations tax deductible.

The Lever •Helen Santoro

Master Plan, Ep 5: How Corporations Became People

Our fifth episode examines a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases that laid the groundwork for PACs, Citizens United, and money-as-speech.

The Lever •David Sirota

Google’s “Assistance” Is Killing Journalism

California had a shot at making Big Tech pay for its stranglehold on local news — but instead it caved to industry pressure and strengthened tech firms’ grip.

The Lever •Freddy Brewster

Will The Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up? (Part 2)

Kamala Harris portrays herself as a progressive champion of working-class causes, but her career shows her remarkable ease with bucking those values for political gain.

The Lever •Arjun Singh

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Mother Earth Shares Her Power

Plus, mental health comes for the people, more states fight the big tax scam, and busting union busters makes workers feel good.

The Lever •Lucy Dean Stockton

The Lever In The News:

• Rising — Amos Barshad appears on The Hill’s morning show to discuss Wall Street investing in Minor League Baseball.
• Civil Eats — The food system-focused publication republished our investigation into the payment platform that’s ripping off public school students in the lunchroom.

Master Plan In The News:

• The Ink — Anand Giridharadas breaks down the master plan that “envisioned an age of right-wing rule and changed America forever.”
• Zeteo — David Sirota sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the long, sordid history behind Project 2025.
• Clean Technica — The cleantech journalism outlet uses the podcast series to explore the ties between the 1971 Powell Memo and arch-conservative plans for a second Trump presidency.
• The Philadelphia Inquirer — The newspaper celebrates local-boy-done-good David Sirota and his new “killer podcast series.”

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