2024 Election

In October, billionaire Mark Cuban bragged about his role in exiling a Harris surrogate and former Elizabeth Warren staffer for the sin of supporting a wealth tax during a television appearance….

Who would’ve guessed that an offshore political betting market relying upon cryptocurrency deposits is riddled with issues?

Why it’s smart for power-hungry politicians to embrace common sense ethics reforms

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court allowed a purge of Virginia voters identified as non-citizens to go through, even though many who will be removed from the voter rolls are known to be citizens. This sort of purge is explicitly barred by the National Voter Registration Act, but the Court’s right-wing justices nonetheless allowed it to continue—raising questions about their motives.

Over the last few days we have seen the billionaire class brought to heel by Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos has joined the likes of Mark Zuckerberg in preemptively acquiescing to Trump’s demands, while Elon Musk has become reliant on a Trump presidency to protect him from any legal consequences resulting from his close relationship to Vladimir Putin. Conversely, a former union leader and unabashed Prairie Populist has threatened a Nebraska Republican incumbent no one had believed in any peril by centering his opposition to monopolies, billionaire influence, and greedy corporations.

Despite what billionaires and neoliberal pundits would have you believe, a corporate crackdown is overwhelmingly popular. Capitulating to the rich, corporate interests, and rightists in the name of bipartisan governance is not.

Hackwatch reader Matthew Yglesias is having trouble understanding, so we’re going to slow it down for him and explain some basic concepts of trustworthiness

In an election year in which one presidential candidate cast the tie-breaking vote in favor of the largest piece of clean energy legislation in U.S. history, and another has pledged to “tell the frackers” to “drill, baby, drill” on Day 1 and repeatedly lied about the impacts of wind turbines, you would be forgiven for assuming that a political action committee (PAC) which claims to represent the interests of the renewable energy industry would be more aligned with the former candidate’s party than the latter. 

Once again polls are showing that swing state voters aren’t simply more moderate on every issue. They’re more inclined to gravitate to a heterodox mix of policies, with corporate crackdown policies being particularly popular. 

Bloomberg reports that Harris promised support for crypto at a NYC fundraiser are disappointing. Changes in securities law to benefit the digital asset industry will unnecessarily undermine consumer safety.