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Tech billionaires are spending unprecedented sums in California races. Experts say it???s the tip of the iceberg

From Google co-founder Brin spending $66m to fight a billionaire tax to Google and Meta funding a joint Super Pac, Silicon Valley is engaged in an existential fight for its political power at home

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