Listen to This Article: The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention

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Listen to This Article: The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention

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Matt Taibbi

Jan 29, 2024

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The recent ballot access challenges, political investigations, and canceled primaries are just an extension of a phenomenon we should have seen coming twenty years ago

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The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention

Matt Taibbi

Jan 26

The Anti-Democratic Movement Targeted Ralph Nader First. We Should Have Paid More Attention

In the summer of 2004 Theresa Amato, campaign manager of presidential candidate Ralph Nader, took out a notebook in preparation for an important phone conference. Her candidate, Nader, had already been subject to an extraordinary — and extraordinarily underreported — campaign of litigious harassment at the hands of the Democratic Party. John Kerry told Nader he had 2,000 lawyers at his disposal and would do “everything within the law” to win. In Arizona, Nader opponents filed a 650-page challenge to his attempt to get on the ballot, forgetting social justice concerns long enough to complain that

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