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Oct 29, 2019 8 tweets 4 min read
🚨BREAKING🚨

We've just obtained audio from payday loan execs detailing their own "quid pro quo" relationship with Trump.

In this first clip, payday lender @mhodges6120 of @AF_247 says his money buys him a direct line to the White House.

Listen: To make things clear, Hodges explains exactly what happens after the donations come in:

Step 1: He calls @GOPChairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

Step 2: McDaniel calls the White House and tells them she has a big donor who needs a favor.

Step 3: The payday industry gets its meeting.
Nov 3, 2017 7 tweets 2 min read
15,000 of you spoke up and told the FCC we will not stand for the Sinclair-Tribune merger. Now lets hammer home the facts of why this merger shouldn’t be approved: [Thread] bit.ly/2zhI4KK Sinclair-Tribune would reduce competition between media corporations in local markets, diminishing the incentive to generate innovative and improved programming for local audiences.