“For the past 40-plus years, a group of “conservative” billionaires have been working as hard as they can to reshape our federal government from one that provides education, health care, housing, food and other necessities ...
“This issue isn’t going away in 2020, and it will be devastating to her re-election campaign as Iowans learn more about her breaking the rules to further her own political career.” (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center ...
Impeachment is becoming a multi-million dollar battleground for issue ads aimed at pressuring lawmakers without advocating for or against their upcoming election. (By Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, The Center For Responsive Politics) A veterans group ...
Dark money groups have spent more than $1 billion on independent expenditures since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision. (By Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) A new “dark money” group ...
The largest donor in the openDemocracy investigation on dark money groups is the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. A recent report from openDemocracy shows U.S.-based religious rights groups have spent at least $50 million on ‘dark ...
Who was really behind the tax bill passed by the Trump administration? (MapLight) A nonprofit trade association whose members include some of the largest corporations in the nation increased its political donations by more than ...
(Maplight) More than four months after Scott Pruitt resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency in disgrace, the public is finally receiving details about the special interest money spent to confirm him as the agency’s administrator. ...
As frustration grows over big money’s influence in politics and legislation on a federal level looks far from a reality, cities and states take up the issue on local levels. In a move to limit ...
Senators and representatives in Congress have received over $120 million from corporate political action committees (PACs) since January 2017. According to MapLight, House Republicans received $263,00 on average which is 67 percent more than the ...
On March 13th, in a local city election in Tempe, Arizona 91 percent of voters said yes to forcing “Dark Money” organizations to reveal financial backers if their spending in local elections exceeds $1,000. Arizona Governor ...
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