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Leonard Leo’s Extremely Revealing Letter to a Dark-Money Group

The right-wing power broker’s call to “weaponize” conservative ideas tells us everything we need to know about his twisted vision for America.

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Sep 17, 2024
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by Katherine Stewart

Leonard Leo speaks at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.
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Leonard Leo, the Federalist Society kingpin and deep-pocketed conservative power broker who engineered the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court, thereby reversing decades of liberal progress, nonetheless is convinced of something truly unbelievable: that the left is crushing…

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