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The Lever
• The Lever
David Sirota sits down with Lever reporters Katya Schwenk and Luke Goldstein to dive into their investigation that traces how the Israel lobby is furtively routing millions.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Voters in crucial election battlegrounds want to see Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer ousted from Dem leadership.
The Lever
• The Lever
Camouflaged election cash, corporate America’s autopilot voters, AI’s body-count threshold, and more from The Lever this week.
The Lever
• Lyna Bentahar
Test your knowledge of AI legislation, dark money groups, and other issues that really matter.
The Lever
• Luke Goldstein
A Lever investigation traces how the Israel lobby is routing millions through groups promoting women, reproductive rights, and Latino candidates — and how AI interests and other power brokers are adopting the strategy.
The Lever
• Lyna Bentahar
New York City progresses at a gallop pace, California preserves its Indigenous heritage, and other good news.
The Lever
• Candice Bernd
A Texas candidate trafficking in white-nationalist politics has found powerful allies among the oil interests he promises to deregulate.
The Lever
• Natalie Bettendorf
Lever columnist Morgan Harper sits down with the U.S. Senate candidate from Florida to discuss why calling out corporations is essential to empowering Black Americans.
The Lever
• David Sirota
Desperate to cast a do-nothing, pro-oligarch agenda as good politics, Democratic elites pretend the key swing vote is country-club Republicans rather than enraged working-class voters.
The Lever
• David Sirota
Class solidarity is one helluva drug among Democratic tycoons-turned-governors.
The Lever
• Jordan Blumetti
The Florida Democrat says she’s no extremist. She’s just running ‘toward the people and what it is that they need.’
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Obama’s former interior secretary is using workers and right-wing spin to attack a tax measure that could cost someone earning his former salary an extra $111,000 a year.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
The incumbent New Hampshire governor helped deregulate data center power providers after serving on Bloom Energy's board — and shares she held could now be worth seven figures.
The Lever
• The Lever
Swing voters are furious about something most people can barely name: surveillance pricing.
The Lever
• David Sirota
Weeks before the midterms, the Democratic establishment is insisting their party must stand against the public’s policy demands.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
The GOP’s Mike Rogers curiously joins other Democrats on a “pro-democracy” flyer distributed in Michigan.
The Lever
• Morgan Harper
U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon is challenging Republican Sen. Ashley Moody without money from corporate PACs — or the full blessing of the Democratic establishment
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Draft artificial intelligence legislation circulated by Anthropic would permit dozens of projected deaths before triggering government intervention.
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• The Lever
The wealth tax, assault rifles, shareholder antics, and more from The Lever this week.
The Lever
• Lyna Bentahar
Indigenous People’s Day raises the alarm, California takes customers off of the endless phone hold — and other wins worth a little noise.
The Lever
• Lyna Bentahar
Test your knowledge of midterm spending, Wall Street loopholes, and other issues that really matter.
The Lever
• David Sirota
The 2026 midterms have become a referendum on legalized corruption — and Democrats are finally connecting it to every other crisis.
The Lever
• David Sirota
The Minnesota governor responds to Barack Obama’s claim that government corruption is down, and to Rahm Emanuel’s call to cast out democratic socialists.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Ultrawealthy donors have spent nearly half a billion dollars trying to convince voters to keep their taxes low via the ballot this November.
The Lever
• Freddy Brewster
Exxon, Tesla, and Goldman Sachs are turning passive investors into an automatic voting bloc built to crush corporate dissent.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Earlier this year, the California attorney general said he was still in touch with his former chief of staff-turned lobbyist, who now leads Kalshi’s public affairs in the Golden State.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
As Medicare for All experiences a resurgence, Democratic corporatists are undermining the momentum by pushing bandaid solutions that carve out room for private insurers.
The Lever
• Jared Jacang Maher
The Rhode Island senator says the next Democratic president should be ready to wield executive power “to its fullest.”
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• The Lever
Walmart watches, Zionists worry, and more from The Lever this week.
The Lever
• Lyna Bentahar
Democracy stages a Southwestern rebellion, abuse victims find shelter, UnitedHealth faces a preexisting investigation, and the anti-Citizens United movement grows.
