The richest person in the world, who's also a white supremacist (and a misogynist and an anti-Semite), will personally spend more than $100 million to make sure plutocrat-friendly Republicans keep the Senate.
It's been awhile since my last civics class, but this is how democracy is supposed to work, right?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/elon-musk-midterms-republicans.html
Alfie Kohn
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