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Gavin Newsom: “Money buys influence, and influence rewrites the rules. Those rewritten rules funnel even more wealth to the few. Under…”

On the recordJune 27, 2026
Money buys influence, and influence rewrites the rules. Those rewritten rules funnel even more wealth to the few. Under this weight, democracy itself starts to buckle.
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Gavin Newsom
Democratic · California

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Critiquing the influence of money in politics.

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