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joe biden
WASHINGTON March 12, 2024
Inside the Silicon Valley lunch behind the president’s explorations on TikTok—and the Republican billionaire fighting to keep the app unbanned.
jack dorsey
SILICON VALLEY March 6, 2024
The bizarre and totally unsurprising story of how Jack Dorsey’s advocacy for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unnerved some members of the Block board.
nikki haley
WASHINGTON February 27, 2024
Nikki Haley is facing zero donor pressure to drop out of the race, but where does this end? Plus, a few new details on Marc Andreessen’s “radicalization” and lunch with Ron DeSantis.
Marc Andreessen
SILICON VALLEY February 22, 2024
After a long political “spirit walk,” Silicon Valley’s most famous V.C. is starting PACs, hiring elite political consultants, messaging with his favorite right-wingers and once again spreading capital across D.C.—all to pump up his investments and spread the gospel of Marc.


joe biden
SILICON VALLEY February 13, 2024
As the president heads to the West Coast to raise money on the heels of the Hur Report, the big-money crowd is asking existential questions and finding familiar answers. Plus: the inside story of why the R.F.K. super PAC refunded $10 million to Bezos’ security guy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
WASHINGTON February 6, 2024
Exclusive reporting on some of the most bewildering murmurs emanating from the political donor inner sanctum: R.F.K.’s attempt to add Andrew Yang to his ticket and Sam Bankman-Fried’s plan to draft Tom Brady for president. Good luck!
Ken Griffin said he “supported” Nikki Haley, employing the past tense, which suggested that a donation had already been made.
SILICON VALLEY January 30, 2024
News from the Four Seasons Palm Beach summit: Ken Griffin’s cri de coeur, Marc Andreessen’s return to Washington, Tim Draper’s latest Haley check, and the Trump skeptics’ five stages of grief.
Major Republican donors, whose interests and economic persuasions have defined the party since the Reagan era, are at a crossroads this week.
WASHINGTON January 24, 2024
Over the next few days, two Republican confabs may provide a final moment for the donor elite to take a breath and decide how much more money they are willing to let Nikki Haley burn before accepting reality.


Donald Trump prepares to hold a "telerally" at the Hotel Fort Des Moines on January 13, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa.
WASHINGTON January 16, 2024
The Trump campaign has put out the word to major G.O.P. donors that if they’re not on the Trump train by next month, it will be noted on their permanent record—and that forgiveness will get harder thereafter.
R.F.K. is certain to be a major storyline of the election, even if most reporters and pundits have yet to figure out if he’ll be a sideshow or a spoiler.
SILICON VALLEY January 9, 2024
R.F.K. Jr., who has raised upwards of $30 million for his PAC, is hiring top Biden fundraisers and has billionaires clamoring for introductions. But how far will the novelty act go?
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