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New Colonialism: Foreign Interests Controlling US Politicians

A new layer of colonialism gets added every year: foreign money and foreign interests buying influence over US politicians, and US citizens paying for it.

  • When an officeholder answers to a foreign interest, the citizen base has been colonized in everything but name.
  • Every year the layer gets thicker, because the incumbents who benefit from it will not be the ones to remove it.
  • We do not make claims about a named person we cannot source.

How this gets shown rather than alleged​

  • The mechanism is what gets documented — the funding, the lobbying, the placed media, the captured staff — with the money traced to campaign finance records and the votes traced to the official legislative record.
  • We name the category we can prove, not the person we cannot. Foreign leverage on an officeholder is disqualifying. Saying that about a named person takes the record, and we hold ourselves to it.
  • What is missing gets marked as missing. We would rather publish 14 of 17 links and name the 3 we cannot get than hand you something that only looks complete.

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Where this sits​

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