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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Theodore Schleifer June 13, 2023
News on the blowback facing Dorsey, a billionaire G.O.P. hopeful with Silicon Valley ties, and a high-profile departure in Dan Loeb’s inner circle.
Jack Dorsey politics have always been anti-establishment above all else, with a particular interest in radicals who challenge the party’s progressive-ish gospel.
Theodore Schleifer June 6, 2023
News and notes from around the political donor universe: a Reid Hoffman controversy in Denver, Tim Draper’s Haley endorsement, and Robert Kennedy Jr.’s new money buddy, Jack Dorsey.
Theodore Schleifer May 30, 2023
The view from inside Bill and Melinda’s $50 billion philanthropy. Plus notes on another Musk-Thiel acolyte signing on with DeSantis, and a Biden fundraising journey to the Wall Street of the West.
Theodore Schleifer May 25, 2023
Scenes from the DeSantis Day One mega-donor event at the Miami Four Seasons, as the candidate’s “investors” prepare to flood the zone with money.


David Sacks
Theodore Schleifer May 23, 2023
David Sacks, the PayPal Mafia scion, has ascended from mere rabble-rouser into a genuine G.O.P. cultural and political force, starting super PACs and dark-money groups, appearing on Tucker, and in his latest media venture, launching DeSantis himself.
Theodore Schleifer May 16, 2023
Both Trump and DeSantis are soliciting the financial support of Home Depot gazillionaire Bernie Marcus, the ultra prolific G.O.P. donor who’s suddenly noncommittal. Should Mar-a-Lago be worried?
Theodore Schleifer May 9, 2023
Ryan Salame and Michelle Bond were the wedding cake-top couple in the S.B.F. orbit: the good-looking, charismatic, uber-ambitious, highly socialized D.C. creatures among the bean bag crowd. Will Salame flip on S.B.F. just like the rest of them?
The past weekend was a Politics 101 refresher for the Biden bundling network.
Theodore Schleifer May 2, 2023
Behind the scenes, the Biden re-election machine is beginning to fully operationalize its Katzenbergs and Steyers. On the other side of the aisle, Ken Griffin, Peter Thiel, and Robert Bigelow appear at odds. Who wins?


Jeffery Katzenberg, a Hollywood mogul with gravitas in fundraising circles from a decade or two in the trenches.
Theodore Schleifer April 25, 2023
Sure, there is a presidential election to think about… but in the meantime, the biggest race in American politics is for the job of Biden’s national finance chair. And the second biggest? His finance director.
Larry EllisonLarry Ellison has been described over the years as a “thinking-with-his-heart” donor.
Theodore Schleifer April 18, 2023
Silicon Valley’s $100 billion man wants Tim Scott, the affable and inspirational South Carolina senator, to be the next president. If only it were that easy.
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