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Topic: donor class

Democratic presidential candidate South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Donor: Buttigieg bundler offered access

Igor Derysh
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden (Getty images/Salon)

Biden's campaign may need Super PAC

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
Mitch McConnell (AP/Salon)

Mitch takes big money from Wall Street

Igor Derysh
(AP/Susan Walsh)

Frontrunner, or dead man walking?

Andrew O'Hehir
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Democratic presidential candidate, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Who's leading the Wall Street primary?

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Stephen Schwarzman (AP/Richard Drew)

Trump megadonor's "edifice complex"

Jim Sleeper
Bernie Sanders; Cory Booker; Joe Biden; Kamala Harris; Kirsten Gillibrand (AP/Salon)

Will Bernie run? And does it matter?

Conor Lynch
Kamala Harris; Al Franken; Kirsten Gillibrand (Getty Images)

Al Franken causes a Democratic firestorm

Matthew Sheffield
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Elizabeth Warren; Bernie Sanders (Getty/Mark Wilson/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Salon)

Big donors bolting from Democrats?

Conor Lynch
Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean (Penguin Random House)

Why the far right is winning

Chauncey DeVega
Charles Koch; David Koch (CBS/AP/Photo montage by Salon)

Everyone hates Trump's tax plan

Matthew Sheffield
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-62044p1.html'>Kim Seidl</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=1226820'>samdiesel</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

GOP donors: Rich and far right

Sean McElwee, Jesse Rhodes, Brian Schaffner
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Downtown Miami (Getty/franckreporter)

Holding the power in Miami

Sean McElwee
(Shutterstock/Salon)

DC's white donor class

Sean McElwee
Donald Trump (Reuters/Darren Hauck)

GOP mega-donor self-love

Simon Maloy
Ted Cruz (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Cruz's Nutty Backers

Amanda Marcotte
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Sean McElwee - Demos
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