a right-wing tech billionaire running to The Free Press to lament capitalism not working for young people is the ultimate “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this” thing ever

INVESTIGATION: American taxpayers already spent $6 billion to develop GLP-1 drugs, and then pharma lobbyists bought enough politicians to make sure drug companies were allowed to charge Americans the world’s highest prices for those drugs that we already paid for. This is how corruption works 👇

INVESTIGATION: American taxpayers already spent $6 billion to develop GLP-1 drugs, and then pharma lobbyists bought enough politicians to make sure drug companies were allowed to charge Americans the world’s highest prices for those drugs that we already paid for. This is how corruption works 👇

🎧LEVER TIME: How voters forced Dems to reject their corporate-coddling political & media elites & learn that populism is centrism. Election 2025 was a rejection of the oligarch orthodoxy enforced by Democratic leaders & corporate media. Search “Lever Time” in your podcast app to hear the episode.

🎧LEVER TIME: How voters forced Dems to reject their corporate-coddling political & media elites & learn that populism is centrism. Election 2025 was a rejection of the oligarch orthodoxy enforced by Democratic leaders & corporate media. Search “Lever Time” in your podcast app to hear the episode.

People keep using elections to vote against the party that controls the White House at the time they’re casting their votes. I know everyone feels the need to create exciting narratives to storify these elections — but thats the boring thing thats actually happening. People keep voting for change.

There's a theory that the Goldwater '64 to Reagan '80 timeline of the conservative movement is being reprised on the left as Bernie 2016 to ?? 2032 timeline. If true, then AOC '18 & Zohran '25 are roughly Reagan's '66 & '70 Cali gubernatorials. Not sure I buy the theory...but it's interesting.

I've spent my life advocating for a politics challenging oligarchy. It's been an unpleasant and difficult line of work, to say the least. So when I see the longtime opponents of this kind of politics suddenly appropriating it as their new "centrism," I'm happy. A short 🧵...

“Last night’s elections also poured cold water on the tired argument among elite Democratic strategists that the party needs to seek out the moderate middle to win…All three major winners last night ran campaigns relentlessly focused on affordability.”

If you want more outsider anti-oligarch candidates, then start replicating New York City's system of publicly financed campaigns in your city and state.

If the amoral Democratic pundits, strategists and elites whose corporatism destroyed their party now feel they must save face by insisting that this kind of Bernie-style populism is the election-winning pragmatic moderate centrism that they love, then great. Welcome aboard. Better late than never.

It took 17 years to get Democrats back to this moment of opportunity. The question after these election wins is whether the whole party will embrace the populism voters want - and whether Dems can learn the cautionary lessons about how their past leaders' post-election betrayals created a backlash.

It took 17 years to get Democrats back to this moment of opportunity. The question after these election wins is whether the whole party will embrace the populism voters want - and whether Dems can learn the cautionary lessons about how their past leaders' post-election betrayals created a backlash.

tbh it’s still kinda amazing it took this much effort to defeat a disgraced nepo baby sex pest who gave his health care industry donors a get-out-of-jail-free card amid a pandemic massacre of his own constituents

Nobody is asking for Dem politicians to issue fawning statements about Dick Cheney. Literally not one person is asking for that. Dems could just say nothing. The fact that top Dems are instead issuing those laudatory statements is a deliberate middle finger to everyone harmed by Cheney.

My overall take on Dick Cheney is that any non-sociopath old enough to remember the aftermath of 9/11 knows that under absolutely no circumstances do you gotta hand it to Dick Cheney.

The reason oligarchs & the political/media class they own had a months-long elite freakout over @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is not because of any one of his policy proposals - but because his win would mean they no longer get to buy every election and control every political outcome. Pass it on.

Zohran Mamdani facing disgusting 9/11-themed attacks from Andrew Cuomo and criticism from billionaires at a Saudi conference — and then being elected mayor of NY on the same day Dick Cheney passes — is like the final redemption/karma/healing scene of a movie about this whole era

Impossible to overstate how much damage this one person did to America and the world — and how that damage created so much of what we’re living through today.

liberal punditry is now a dude sitting alone on a throne declaring that when confronting authoritarianism, Democrats must make sure to stand for nothing specific

Nuggets game with dad

What stage of capitalism is this?

Oligarchs executed a master plan to deregulate campaign finance & kill off anti-bribery laws so they could buy elections. Their elite panic about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the oligarchy showing how afraid they are that their master plan is no longer working. LeverNews.com/book

Most candidates sell out to PACs before voters even weigh in. Connecticut’s Jillian Gilchrest is running for Congress without corporate cash — and she’s telling @DavidSirota.com how she’s pulling it off. 🎙️ New episode from Lever Time's MONEYBOMB series www.youtube.com/shorts/sUDk3...

The Democrat who won elections in North Dakota for literally 30 years wrote this book, and yet today's Democratic pundits and politicians are still trying to convince you Dems abandoning economic populism isn't a big reason they now lose elections in red states.

Oligarchs executed a master plan to deregulate campaign finance & kill off anti-bribery laws so they could buy elections. Their elite panic about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the oligarchy showing how afraid they are that their master plan is no longer working. LeverNews.com/book

This was considered peak Savvy Punditry And Strategy™ one year ago. Lessons for Dems & liberals: 1) stop thinking political pundits who've never worked on campaigns have any useful advice on how to win elections 2) just because something is published by an elite media outlet doesnt mean it's smart

I would never have made it to age 50 without @emilyforco.bsky.social. I feel blessed everyday to be her arm broccoli, and to be one of her supporters in her fight in the legislature for a better world.

I asked @grahamformaine.bsky.social questions from @levernews.com readers. They wanted to know about his tattoo, his Reddit posts, and how voters can know he will not end up being the next John Fetterman betraying his populist promises if he wins office. Here's what Platner told me👇

I think people need to seek genuine, real, medically trained mental health help if they are spending their time logging onto the Internet to declare that Bernie Sanders is a Nazi sympathizer.

I don’t know what this refers to, but I’ll just reiterate that it’s not a good thing that liberals now use BlueSky as their platform to publicly post their death wishes.

I don’t think it’s good that BlueSky is now a place where liberals post their hopes that their political opponents die.

🎧LEVER TIME: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the culmination of a 40-year movement that built NY’s clean elections system giving outsider candidates public money to compete with oligarchs. Now, there’s a push to replicate that system across the country. Search “Lever Time” in your podcast app.

This is what Ezra Klein declared last year. Why would literally any Democrat in America now take his advice about what the Democratic Party should do to fix itself?

🎧LEVER TIME: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the culmination of a 40-year movement that built NY’s clean elections system giving outsider candidates public money to compete with oligarchs. Now, there’s a push to replicate that system across the country. Search “Lever Time” in your podcast app.

Dem states coulda done this but they refused for 15 years & two Dem presidents refused to even issue implementing rules. Now among the biggest problems for Dems is voters refusing to believe they’ll actually do anything they promise. Seems like now is the time to finally do something like this 👇

I would never have made it to age 50 without @emilyforco.bsky.social. I feel blessed everyday to be her arm broccoli, and to be one of her supporters in her fight in the legislature for a better world.

Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes today. At 50, I feel a deep sense of gratitude — for family & friends who have been there for me through ups & downs, and for a community of supporters who’ve made the work I do possible, also thru ups & downs. I truly love you all.

Karma barely exists in politics, so I think we should take a moment to recognize that Andrew Cuomo and his oligarch donors being defeated by a Bernie acolyte railing on billionaires as Obama himself and the larger Obamaworld bend the knee — this would truly be a karmic moment for the ages.

NEW: How can we know whether Attentional Candidates will become @johnfetterman.com betraying their stated principles just to get themselves more attention once they win office? Some thoughts after I talked to @grahamformaine.bsky.social & threw Lever readers’ tough questions at him.

NEW: How can we know whether Attentional Candidates will become @johnfetterman.com betraying their stated principles just to get themselves more attention once they win office? Some thoughts after I talked to @grahamformaine.bsky.social & threw Lever readers’ tough questions at him.

Happy Halloween!

A RAND study found $79 trillion was stolen from the bottom 90%. Red tape is bad & should be fought, but America's biggest problem is not red tape reducing abundance. America's biggest problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance. Glad to be quoted with Bernie Sanders in NY Magazine.

A RAND study found $79 trillion was stolen from the bottom 90%. Red tape is bad & should be fought, but America's biggest problem is not red tape reducing abundance. America's biggest problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance. Glad to be quoted with Bernie Sanders in NY Magazine.

In general, it’s not surprising that lots of voters seem willing to overlook outsider candidates’ imperfections if those candidates appear laser focused on fighting the oligarchs and party machines that are ruining everyone’s lives.

We asked Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner a barrage of really tough questions directly from The Lever’s readers. Thanks to our readers for taking the assignment seriously. Watch Platner’s responses here 👇

If the Onion was satirizing corporate media’s worship of billionaires, this would be the the headline and story they’d write www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/t...

I talked to @grahamformaine.bsky.social about tattoos, Reddit posts, fears he could be another John Fetterman, his views about Abundance v Anti-Oligarchy, and why his opponent Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill letting workers talk to each other about wages. Watch the discussion & pass it on👇

just in case you’re somehow wondering why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social affordability/anti-oligarchy message has resonated

🚨 REVEALED: The company handling prescriptions for U.S. troops is charging $484 more per generic drug than local pharmacies — and pocketing the difference. Taxpayers pay more. Troops get less. Read the investigation by @helenwsantoro.bsky.social for The Lever 👇 www.levernews.com/how-a-pharma...