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Hey, Master Plan listeners. In the Master Plan podcast feed, it's Jared here. I'm one of the producers at the Lever end of Master Plan. And if you listen to the series, which came out about a year ago in the fall of 2024, you know, it told the 50 year story about how big money and corruption took over American politics. Well, I have some exciting news. After a year of work, David Sirota and I have turned it into a book. It's called the Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America, co authored by me and Mr. David Sirota. And this is a big moment for the Lever. While a lot of other news outlets are cutting back on doing print, we at the Lever decided to do the opposite. We launched our own book imprint to put out this book and to keep bringing this kind of long form investigative journalism into into new formats. And if you stick around after this, you'll hear our brand new Master Plan book trailer voiced by David. You know, the question came up, why do it as a book? And the answer is, is it let us go deeper, pick up all the things that got left on the cutting room floor when we were doing the podcast, the new evidence, the documents, the stories, we just couldn't fit into these episodes. You'll see how Lewis Powell's secret memo in the early 70s became the corporate world's battle plan. How people like Joseph Coors, Roger Ailes and Leonard Leo built a machine to dominate politics over a long term span, which is manifesting itself right now in Trump 2.0. And we also track how court cases like Citizens United turned money into speech and power. So Sirota and I are very proud of how this book turned out and we're really grateful to everyone who pre ordered books and made this project possible and really are the people that make a reader funded newsroom possible. So if you want to grab a copy of the book, it's available now at all the major booksellers, but also you can order it directly from us@levernews.com book and paid subscribers get an exclusive discount on the book. So head over to Levernews.com book. Thanks so much for supporting independent journalism and listening to and now reading the Master Plan. So here's the book trailer. Thanks a lot. Billionaires spending a record $880 million.
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That's billion dollars from a single donor. Trump has made at least $350 million from this meme coin so far.
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This corrupt American issue.
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When you hear the word corrupt, what comes to mind? A bribe? A shady backroom deal? A politician caught with cash in the freezer. That's all bad, sure. But the real story of corruption in the United States, it's something way more complex. It's a system, a culture of bribery and graft so pervasive that it no longer looks like corruption. It just seems like the way things work.
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The 2024 political campaign on track to become the costliest in history. Concerns are mounting over groups that may be shielding the donors behind the donations.
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And this didn't happen by accident. It was built through a coordinated 50 year effort to dismantle guardrails and shift power to the wealthy and the well connected.
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The right to privacy is protected under the Constitution in various ways.
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That's the untold story that we now expose in our new book, the Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Expanding on our award winning and chart topping podcast, the book goes deeper with new reporting, exclusive documents, never before seen photographs, detailed timelines, and a powerful new afterword connecting decades of corporate domination to Trump's return to power in 2025. Master plan is a sweeping investigation into how American democracy was hijacked and how we can fight to take it back. If you want to understand how we got here, you have to know the plan behind it. Order Master Plan right now@levernews.com book.