Topic: campaign finance
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.
Voters Can Now Weigh In On Citizens United
California voters will be able to vote for overturning Citizens United.
Staffing Up for Corruption
There was a new category of staffing added to Big Money in politics. Campaigns are now hiring “donor maintenance managers” as personal concierges to millionaire supporters—another example of plutocratic corruption of our democratic elections.
Buy Your Way into Scott Walker’s Circle
Presidential candidate Scott Walker wants you to think he cares about people like you, so he is inviting people to sit down and talk to him face-to-face—it only costs $1 million. It's time we end this corrupt mockery of our electoral democracy.
A Mailman on a Mission
"Doug Hughes’ gyrocopter stunt was no flight of fancy." It seems the majority of Americans are behind his bold “very special delivery” through the heart of our nation’s most restricted airspace in an effort to shake up and shape up Congress.
Wall Street Banks on Buying the Democrats’ Love
Big money is threatening the Democratic party by saying that major campaign donations are dependent on “a friendlier attitude toward the banks.” This just shows what little respect banks actually have.
Kissing the Koch Ring
Corporate spending was bad in previous years, but wait until 2016 as it is set to corrupt the candidates and greatly diminish voter participation. This time around, the Koch machine will spend three times more than last year’s midterm elections.
A Flat-footed Backflip for Wall Street
Congress did a dazzling flip-flop, putting taxpayers back on the hook for the banksters’ high-risk speculation. It's always something else when Wall Street and Congress get together—in secret.
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The Trump administration’s dangerous plans for “America’s backyard”
The last thing these countries need is a further escalation of violence and new approaches for dealing with what is in large part a youth problem need to be put forward.
College was once free and for the public good – What happened?
Students didn’t have to worry about tuition and debt until higher education became more about personal gain than contributing to society.
Bernie fights to oppose new dirty energy bill
“Our job is to move away from fossil fuels toward sustainable energy and energy efficiency,” Sanders said in a statement. “This bill does the opposite.”
In the last 40 years CEO pay has risen by 937% while worker wages...
America’s inequality problem continues to be the worst in the industrialized world.
Good news on Social Security and Medicare? Reports show just that
This is a good point to keep in mind as the Republicans try to dismantle Obamacare.
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