Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). The increasing influence of not merely the rich, but the super rich, on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one. Yet somehow, elite media seem less and less interested in it. We’ll talk with David Kass, executive director of the Americans for Tax Fairness campaign, about that on this week’s show. Transcript: ‘We’ve Seen This Incredible Flow of Billionaire Money Into Campaigns’Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at some recent press coverage of Trump’s illegal funding freeze, immigration raids and the Gaza death toll.