MASTER PLAN:
Legalizing Corruption
Master Plan, the award-winning investigative podcast series from The Lever, reveals how political ideologues and corporate forces have spent years orchestrating a system of legalized corruption in America. We are exposing their scheme.
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Master Plan, an investigative podcast series by The Lever, reveals how extremists and tycoons orchestrated a system of legalized corruption in America. The first season traces the untold history from the 1970s to today, showing how a small group of operatives and oligarchs used vast wealth to manipulate key U.S. government policies for personal gain at the expense of everyone else — a plan that’s coming to fruition in the 2024 election.
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Master Plan is narrated by David Sirota, an investigative journalist and Oscar nominee for his work on the film Don’t Look Up. He co-produced the acclaimed Meltdown podcast with Alex Gibney, examining the financial crisis and its role in Donald Trump’s rise. Sirota, a former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders, founded The Lever, an award-winning outlet dedicated to holding power accountable.
🎧 Episode 1: Nixon’s Milk Money Prompts A Backlash
Master Plan’s first episode explores a scandal that inspired groundbreaking anti-corruption legislation — if only the reforms could have lasted.
🎧 Episode 2: Watergate’s Magic Window Of Corporate Cash
As brand-name companies fund the break-in, a White House memo envisions dark money and Nixon leaves a ticking time bomb in D.C.
🎧 Episode 3: The Powell Memo
Our third episode introduces the architect behind the master plan’s original blueprint, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.
🎧 Episode 4: The Task Force That Took Over America
How a radical secret memo went from idea to reality.
🎧 Episode 5: How Corporations Became People
You might remember Mitt Romney’s famous line: “Corporations are people, my friend.” But where did the idea that businesses have the same rights as humans come from?
🎧 Episode 6: The Maverick Vs. The Corruption Machine
After John McCain got caught up in a corruption scheme, he went to war with his own party to try to make sure it never happened again.
🎧 Episode 7: The Federalist Society Strikes Back
To get the rulings you want, build the Supreme Court you need.
🎧 Episode 8: Shock And Awe At The Supreme Court
In a pivotal 12 months, the master planners transformed the judiciary, positioning it to deliver corruption-legalizing precedents.
🎧 Episode 9: The Swing Vote That Changed America
Indiana attorney James Bopp engineered the case allowing dark money in politics specifically with the court’s “swing vote” in mind.
🎧 Episode 10: The Master Planners’ Heist Of The Century
If you thought the master planners would be content to end their assault on democracy with Citizens United, think again.
🎧 Episode 11: Hell Or High Water
We all live in the master planners’ world now. So what can we do to resist?
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