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Moyers & Company
Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections
Season 3
Episode 43
Days ahead of the midterm elections, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent US Senator, is angry about what he sees as big money’s wholesale purchase of political power. It’s a grave threat, he believes, not only to our electoral process but to democracy itself.
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