Master Plan

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>For decades a shadowy network of corporate elites political operatives and Supreme Court justices has worked behind the scenes to dismantle campaign finance laws and rig the system in favor of the ultra-wealthy. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Master Plan</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> uncovers the hidden history of how unrestrained money and influence have transformed the United States into a full-fledged kleptocracy - where policy is bought elections are manipulated and corruption operates in plain sight.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Based on the award-winning investigative podcast from </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Lever</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> journalist David Sirota and producer Jared Jacang Maher trace this blueprint back to a little-known memo written by future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. With newly unearthed documents and gripping storytelling they reveal how this manifesto became a roadmap for dismantling democracy - one that corporate leaders implemented at secret meetings in places like Disney World that inspired wealthy anti-government radicals like Joseph Coors to fund the Heritage Foundation and that paved the way for operatives like Roger Ailes to build Fox News. From Nixon's Watergate cover-up to the</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> Citizens United</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> ruling and today's dark-money super PACs Master Plan exposes the calculated efforts to use wealth to control political leaders and legalize corruption at every level of government.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>With the 2024 election marking the most expensive in U.S. history the Supreme Court enabling corruption and billionaires openly seizing government functions this book arrives at a crucial moment. It comes as Project 2025 and a second Trump presidency move to enact the final phase of this 50-year plan.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>With expanded reporting and exclusive materials not included in the podcast Master Plan is the definitive history of how America's democracy was hijacked-and what can still be done to reclaim it.</span></p>