Tag Archives: Lewis Powell Memo

Heart Of Iowa Dems Host Q And A With Thom Hartmann

Posted on October 10, 2025 by Trish Nelson

Thom Hartmann and Laura Belin answered attendees’ questions in this event hosted by the Heart of Iowa Democrats yesterday. Both Thom and Laura are highly knowledgeable, as you all know. A variety of topics were covered including how we got … Continue reading →

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Al Franken And Robert Reich: Fighting The Trump Autocracy

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Trish Nelson

Topics covered include the reconciliation bill, Citizens United, Powell memo, corporate democrats, tariffs, due process, protests and more. Plus did you know Robert Reich went to law school with Bill and Hillary Clinton and Clarence Thomas? A couple of stories … Continue reading →

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How And Why Corporations Took Over Our Politics

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Trish Nelson

Dave Bradley has been posting about the Lewis Powell Memo since at least 2010.   More recently, it has been getting increasing exposure and mentions on social media, a good thing.  Sheldon Whitehouse covered it in Speech 1 of his … Continue reading →

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Sheldon Whitehouse Exposes Right Wing Court Capture In Series Of Speeches

Posted on September 19, 2022 by Trish Nelson

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, explains to America how dark right wing money packed the court in a series of floor speeches titled “The Scheme,” exposing the machinations by right-wing donor interests to capture … Continue reading →

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If America Has Been Poisoned What Is The Antidote?

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Trish Nelson

The Powell memo, Ronald Reagan, money is speech, corporations are people, union busting, racism, Willie Horton, Rush Limbaugh, guns, white supremacists, voting, etc.  Antidote at 9:55.

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The Powell Manifesto Realized: The Shocking 1971 Republican Blueprint To Eliminate Liberalism And Establish Corporate Domination Over America’s Pillars Of Democracy

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Trish Nelson

It’s called the Lewis Powell Memo (aka The Powell Manifesto) written in 1971, before he became a Supreme Court Justice and went on to write a 1978 decision that effectively invented a First Amendment “right” for corporations to influence ballot … Continue reading →

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Jen Senko: How Right Wing Media Has Divided The Country And What We Must Do

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Trish Nelson

See my post earlier this week Movie Review:  The Brainwashing of My Dad, the documentary by Jen Senko about losing her father to right wing media. Also on Blog for Iowa see the list of the thirteen Iowa commercial radio … Continue reading →

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The GOP, Corporate America, And The Powell Manifesto

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Trish Nelson

Progressives and others have been going wild this week over a Rick Santorum remark denegrating college education, basing his statement on something that President Obama didn’t even say.  It is time for us to get over being shocked by every “crazy” … Continue reading →

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Observations on the Media in Iowa: A Brief History of Consolidation

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Dave Bradley

by Dave Bradley When we left last week, I had asked that you read the Lewis Powell memo that became the catalyst for the right wing (or as Paul Krugman refers to them – the movement conservatives) to begin a … Continue reading →

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