WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA. Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsen Simena kept the John Lewis voting rights act from passing, and famously kept the senate from repealing the filibuster.

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        *billionaires.

        There are millionaires just from buying a house for $150k in the right city in the 90s. Doesn’t make them evil.

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          The term millionaire ought to be updated to mean someone with the capacity to spend a million dollars at any given time, not people whose assets total 1 million

          I would wager the former definition includes more bad people than the latter

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      He probably donates to ALL parties. That being said, business does not like rule changes (laws) being made. This entire party is made of people who stopped legislation in favor of big money people. Under ‘Domestic Policies’ on the wiki there is this “Efforts to block tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and corporations, especially in 2021 and 2022, have been attributed to No Labels by The Intercept[11] and Jacobin.[12]”