Undetected corporate and foreign influence in elections is only multiplying.
In 2010, the US Supreme Court declared that pumping corporate cash into elections is a form of free speech. As Republican Mitt Romney put it later, “Corporations are people, my friend.”
We have been witnessing the consequences of the high court’s Citizens United ruling ever since. But because so many of those consequences benefit Republican politicians, there can be a tendency to view opposition to Citizens United as primarily a leftist preoccupation.
What’s brilliant about Dark Money, a powerful documentary directed by Montana native Kimberly Reed, is how it proves the falsity of this notion by telling the story of Republican state lawmakers who found themselves in the crosshairs of a very effective dark-money blitz.
