Progressive media figures have a duty to hold themselves to higher ethical standards regarding dark money and billionaire influence than those on the right.

“I do think that the left should hold themselves to a higher standard because we are supposed to be the people who oppose billionaire influence, who want campaign finance reform, who want to represent public interest and not have all of this nefarious dark money that is controlling so much of our pol”

Secretly funding influencers to propagate party talking points without disclosure is a failure of democracy and a misuse of funds.

“It's the Democratic Party trying to employ people to actively propagandize to an audience that thinks they're getting real information, like real unvarnished truth from independent content creators online. And the only thing that they're doing is basically the same regurgitated CNN talking points th”

Tucker Carlson criticizes the influence of foreign donors on United States domestic politics.

“If there was some Chinese guy and he was pretty open about caring a lot more about the CCP than he cares about the United States, it would not be cool to take money from him.”

James Fishback argues that receiving large, unprecedented donations in an uncontested primary election makes a candidate beholden to their donors.

“I'll stop calling you a slave if you give the money back, the $45 million you gave to your donor that your donors gave you.”