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The Last Call: How Big Money Is Crushing California's Craft Spirit Dream

Direct-to-consumer deliveries for California's small craft distilleries are set to end on January 1, 2025, killed by a powerful coalition of corporate alcohol distributors, the wine industry, and the Teamsters union. This is a stark and shameful example of how money and power can subvert democracy, undermine small businesses, and curtail consumer freedom in the dark corners of Sacramento.