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  "path": "/politics/2026/05/crypto-alabama-senate-coinbase-ripple-andreessen/",
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  "textContent": "From a billionaire’s perspective, a US Senate seat can be tantalizingly cheap. In 2022, Peter Thiel bought one for his former employee JD Vance with $15 million in independent campaign expenditures—a pittance for an oligarch whose net worth has increased by about $12 million per day since then. This year, a handful of cryptocurrency billionaires […]",
  "title": "How Crypto Billionaires Are Trying to Buy a Senate Seat in Alabama"
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