Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 4: When Unions Spoke: The 1948 Clash Over Money, Speech, and Democracy

This episode walks you through the tense shift from the New Deal era to 1948, when powerful unions, new campaign limits, and an emboldened First Amendment collided. Think Taft‑Hartley, the CIO newspaper case, and a Supreme Court that sidesteps a crisis but asks a bigger question: when organizations speak, whose rights are they exercising?

It’s a short, smart look at how collective speech, money, and democracy got tangled — and why the next episode, with the NAACP, matters even more.