Master Plan was just featured in iHeartMedia’s Podcast Picks.
If you haven’t listened yet, this is the series on the decades-long effort to expand presidential power — and how we got here.
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Republicans tried to push through a late-night vote to extend warrantless spying powers — and it didn’t go through.
Now Congress has bought itself more time to fight over the law that lets the government collect Americans’ data without a warrant.
David Sirota talks with Ken Klippenstein ⬇️
Congress banned Big Tech from working with TikTok over national security concerns.
Then Apple, Google, and Microsoft went to DOJ and asked for assurances they wouldn’t be prosecuted for… working with TikTok anyway.
New docs show they got that protection.
For the first time in six years, not a single environmental shareholder proposal passed.
A few years ago, these were actually winning.
Then Exxon sued its own shareholders — and since then, support has dropped off and investors have gotten a lot quieter.
A surveillance law that lets the FBI access Americans’ communications without a warrant is about to expire. Or is it?
With Congress divided — and the FISA court already moving behind the scenes — we’re going LIVE with Ken Klippenstein at 1:30pm MT to break it all down.
An HBO documentary exposing “dark money” in American politics just earned an Emmy nomination.
It cites The Lever’s reporting — and credits us in the film.
This is the system we’ve been investigating for years.
ICE just approved a $12M AI tool to monitor immigrants’ movements, routines, and relationships in real time — building “target profiles” from personal data.
Tax Day is tomorrow. But the story behind America’s tax system goes back decades — and it’s still unfolding.
TAX REVOLT traces how cutting taxes became a political obsession — from the 1970s to Reagan to Trump.
Listen now: the.levernews.com/tax-revolt/
There was a time when this would’ve been called corruption. Now it’s harder to even define.
A new Supreme Court move shows just how much the ground has shifted.
We trace it back to the source in Master Plan: THE KINGMAKERS.
Now on YouTube — watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_5F...
Iran-Contra didn’t just break the rules—it rewrote them. A president could sidestep Congress, run foreign policy in secret, and face no real consequences.
That precedent still shapes how wars get launched today.
This is why you’ve barely been feeling that raise.
States and localities are hiding how much they’re spending on data center tax breaks, while publicly available information indicates a potential money pit.
Comparing the Bureau of Prisons to the Soviet Gulag, a judge ordered the release of a 36-year-old woman with suspected breast cancer who was denied proper treatment in federal custody.
A scathing ruling cites systemic medical neglect.
The Congressional Black Caucus is staying silent on whether it’ll supply the votes to pass a Trump-backed expansion of warrantless spying powers.
This is the same law used to surveil BLM activists — and it’s up for renewal this week.
A dark money crypto group with Trump ties is cheering a Senate push for a U.S. Bitcoin reserve and expanded mining.
It shares personnel with the Koch network — and helped shape Project 2025.
Parents are being prompted to sign their kids up for a “Trump Account” while filing their taxes.
It sounds like free money, but critics warn these accounts could expose kids to market risk, fees, and deepen inequality — all while benefiting Wall Street firms.
If corruption is everywhere… is it still a crime?
A new Supreme Court move raises exactly that question.