Week 1: Introduction: The US Majority and the Diagnosis
Week 2: The Roadmap: Numbers, Districts, and the 21st Amendment Precedent
Week 3: The 2% and the Voting Booth Trap
Week 4: The Constitutional Case: Article V and State Conventions
Week 5: People Primaries: Community-Driven Candidate Selection
Week 6: The 99-Cent Revolution: Funding the Movement
Week 7: The Powell Memo: Origin of the Corporate Capture Project
Week 8: Midterm + The Slow Bleed and the Broken Family
Week 9: The Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Money, and Political Theater
Week 10: Worker Displacement: H-1B Visas, Offshoring, and the Tech Giants
Week 11: AI, Corporate Personhood, and Constitutional Human Obsolescence
Week 12: Labor Rights, the PRO Act, and the Race Divide
Week 13: Movement Security, Nationalism, and the Policy Platform
Week 14: Veterans, the Covenant, and the Gig Economy
Week 15: The Call to Action: Synthesis and Critical Assessment
Part I: The Destination
Part II: The Map
Part III: The Obstacles
Part IV: The Action Plan
Part V: The Policy Platform
Part VI: The Covenant
Part VII: The Call to Action
Appendices
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Week 9: The Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Money, and Political Theater
RandellHynes July 17, 2026
Week 9: The Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Money, and Political Theater
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Read from the Book
- UNINCORPORATUS required reading:
- Supreme Court excerpt: Buckley v. Valeo (1976), excerpts on contribution limits vs. expenditure limits
- Recommended: Hacker & Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics, Ch. 4–5
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Lecture Topics
- Chapter 13: "The Great Worker Betrayal — The Universal Hypocrisy of 'Pro-Worker' Politics"
- Chapter 14: "The Chamber of Commerce: Foreign Money, American Elections" — the argument that the Chamber collects dues from foreign corporations and foreign state-owned enterprises, channeling them into American political activity
- The FEC complaint framework: the book's proposal for a federal lawsuit challenging the Chamber's constitutional status
- Chapter 16: "The Ugly Truth — Pure Theater" — the argument that partisan conflict is real but narrow while bipartisan agreement on donor-class priorities is quiet and vast
- The "handshake," the "toll booth," the "wrecking crew," and the "flip" — the book's analytical vocabulary for political theater
Reflect & Discuss
The foreign-money claim: examine the evidence. The Chamber's international councils do collect dues from foreign entities. Does this constitute a campaign finance violation, or does the book overstate the case? Trace the legal framework: what would a lawsuit challenging the Chamber's First Amendment status actually argue, and what are its prospects? The political theater thesis: is the book correct that "the disagreements are loud, the agreements are worth trillions"? Find one recent legislative example that supports or complicates this claim.