Tag: campaign finance
Crypto kickback: GOP bill boosts Trump family wealth as corruption claims...
Trump’s $TRUMP coin dinner, Abu Dhabi deals, and a fast-tracked Senate crypto bill raise alarms over corruption and billionaire influence.
Wisconsin tried campaign finance reform. It ended up with the most...
As spending for its Supreme Court race surpasses more than $80 million, some campaign reformers are wondering if the state is reaching a tipping point.
Elon Musk’s quarter-billion dollar influence: How his spending helped elect Trump
Elon Musk spent over $250 million to support Trump’s 2024 election, raising questions about billionaire influence in democracy.
The billionaire behind RFK Jr. and Trump: Timothy Mellon’s influence on...
Timothy Mellon, the secretive billionaire, bankrolls both RFK Jr. and Donald Trump in the 2024 election, raising critical concerns about the influence of wealth on American democracy.
UAW unleashes powerful campaign to unite working class against Trump and...
The UAW’s latest ad calls for nationwide solidarity among workers to counter the influence of the billionaire class and defeat Donald Trump, highlighting the stakes for the future of America’s working class.
19 things we learned about money in politics in 2019
The year in campaign finance had highs and lows (mostly lows).
Trump 2020 campaign ad payments hidden by layers of shell companies
The Trump campaign and representatives of the firms had not responded to request for comment.
House passes HR 1 – a sweeping anti-corruption bill to get...
“HR 1 restores the people’s faith that government works for the public interest, the people’s interest, not the special interest.”
Democrats reintroduce DISCLOSE Act to combat dark money ‘poison’
It will restore public faith in our government. It will mark a major step towards fixing what's broken in Washington."
STUDY: PBS Remains Gold Standard For Coverage Of Campaign Finance Reform
This report analyzed coverage of campaign finance reform on Sunday morning talk shows and four nightly news programs.
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Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families
The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.
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The America we once knew...gone!
What are Erik Prince’s plans for the second Trump administration?
New plans from Erik Prince, a persistent figure in America’s private military complex, signal a wider push to privatize government functions in Trump’s second term.
NOAA will stop tracking costs of climate crisis-fueled disasters in wake of Trump cuts
The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and that this information—which stretches back 45 years—would be archived.
GOP Medicaid cuts would drop millions from coverage while boosting tax breaks for the...
New Republican plan could strip 8.6 million Americans of healthcare while permanently enriching the ultra-wealthy through revived 2017 tax breaks.