Listen to This Article: The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention Narrated Version MATT TAIBBI JAN 29

The recent ballot access challenges, political investigations, and canceled primaries are just an extension of a phenomenon we should have seen coming twenty years ago Narrated by Jared Moore Text published 01/26/24: CAMPAIGN ‘24 The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention MATT TAIBBI · JAN 26 The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention In the summer of 2004 Theresa Amato, campaign manager of presidential candidate Ralph Nader, took out a notebook in preparation for an important phone conference. Her candidate, Nader, had already been subject to an extraordinary — and extraordinarily underreported — campaign of litigious harassment at the hands of the Democratic Party. John Kerry told Nader he had 2,000 lawyers at his disposal and would do “everything within the law” to win. In Arizona, Nader opponents filed a 650-page challenge to his attempt to get on the ballot, forgetting social justice concerns long enough to complain that Read full story Listen to subscriber only audio in your podcast app: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/4519588148244-How-do-I-listen-to-episodes-on-my-podcast-app- Share the free versions of Racket To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts Racket To Go Matt Taibbi 123 episodes Racket To Go Matt Taibbi Podcast Racket News © 2024 Matt Taibbi 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe