One man has spent three hundred sixty-six million dollars to shape this year’s midterms. One hundred fifty-eight million to a single Senate super PAC in one summer, more than the Democrats’ rival fund raised from every donor it had. Seventy-six million to his own turnout machine knocking on six and a half million doors. And that is only the money we can see, because millions more flow through groups that never name their donors.
After promising in May to spend less, Musk is back dining with Trump, and the investment logic is simple. Investors always come to collect, in contracts, in investigations dropped, in favors banked.
In this episode, Jim and Jill follow the money the way Mitch Jackson would in a courtroom: the filing numbers, the Paxton connection, the one hundred forty-nine million dollar ad blitz, the Citizens United machine that made it all legal, and the two-move fix that ends the auction.
No both-sides fog, no despair, just the playbook: daylight on every dollar, a hard cap on mega-donor spending, and a constitutional amendment that kills Citizens United for good.
The written version of this podcast episode is here.
Mitch Jackson, Esq.
