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YOU’VE BEEN HACKED

We’re only beginning to understand how our democracy was rigged—and what we can do about it.
CEO MONIKA BAUERLEIN

ONE OF THE MOST important pieces of political prognosis of the past decade appeared in the Wall Street Journal on March 4, 2010. It was a look ahead at that year’s midterm elections, the first chance for voters to render a verdict on a new president whom many Americans disliked to the point of considering him illegitimate. The author was Karl Rove. (Yeah, remember Turd Blossom?) The bland headline: “The GOP Targets State Legislatures.”

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