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Dark Money (1:38:00) Dark Money examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana - a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide - to follow a local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
Elections and Political Parties (23:59) A government of the people, by the people, and for the people isn’t possible without the laborious process of nominating and electing candidates, in a manner fair and free to all citizens. How did this process begin and how has it evolved over the course of American history?
Exclusive: Is Facebook Doing Enough to Stop Election Meddling? (3:40) In an exclusive on-camera interview with CNN, Facebook Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher tells Donie O'Sullivan how the tech giant is trying to solve its troll problem and avoid a repeat of 2016.
Moyers & Company: Dark Money in Politics (57:00) “Let’s face it,” the founder of a super PAC recently told Mother Jones magazine, “politics in this country is coin-operated.” True enough, as evidenced by the billions projected to be spent in the 2012 elections—untold amounts of it unleashed by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. But even with all that money being cashed in, the check-writers remain largely hidden, including those who helped Scott Walker out-fundraise his Democratic challenger to win 2012’s recall election in Wisconsin. In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers talks with Mother Jones editors Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein, who throw light on what they call “dark money,” the cash that allows the rich to influence our political freedoms. Moyers also talks with historian Thomas Frank (What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Pity the Billionaire) about the power of concentrated money to subvert democracy.
Moyers & Company: How Do Liberals and Conservatives See the World? (57:00) Our country is more politically polarized than ever. Is it possible to agree to disagree and still move on to solve the nation’s massive problems? Or are the blind leading the blind—right over a cliff? In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers and moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt talk about the psychological underpinnings of our contentious culture, why we can’t trust our own opinions, and the demonizing of our adversaries. “When it gets so that your opponents are not just people you disagree with, but…[a] mental state in which I am fighting for good, and you are fighting for evil, it’s very difficult to compromise,” Haidt tells Moyers. The program includes a Bill Moyers essay on why Newt Gingrich might be afraid of Saul Alinsky.
Not Every Vote For President Counts The Same: Should That Change? (10:00) "Off The Trail" digs into the issues at the heart of the 2020 campaign trail. In each episode, we'll show the human stories behind the issues and shed new light on what voters really think.
Plot to Overturn the Election (53:00) How lies about election fraud have made their way to the center of American politics. With ProPublica, FRONLINE examines the hidden origins of disinformation about the 2020 election and the handful of people behind some of the core narratives of fraud.
Series: Modern Presidential Campaigns Series This five-part series highlights all the key moments of modern presidential campaigns from 1924 to 2004. 5-part series, 53–87 minutes each.
Whose Vote Counts (53:00) Allegations of voter fraud and disenfranchisement in the lead-up to the 2020 election. With Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb investigates how the pandemic is being used to sway turnout.

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