Tag: dark money

"Citizens can't exercise their right to self-governance if we don't know who is funding our representatives."

"I just mean that people should not be self-funding and they should not be funded from PACs from other billionaires. Get out there, trust your message."

While some of the issues presented by the Trump campaign’s approach to outside groups may seem novel, Trump is hardly the only candidate with blurred lines between his campaign and outside groups supporting him.

The Koch network may be changing its face and money flow, but it appears to be still just as powerful as ever.

Freedom Partners, officially organized as a 501 (c)(6) trade association for the purpose of “promoting economic freedom,” funnels money from the Koch Network of billionaire donors to a growing number of political advocacy organizations controlled by Koch operatives.

As a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” nonprofit, is not allowed to have politics as its primary purpose despite spending millions on politicking.

“In other words, an organization ‘dedicated to promoting accountability, ethics, and transparency’ gets 100 percent of its funds from a group that exists mainly as a vehicle for donors to elude transparency.”

A Brennan Center analysis shows both Republicans and Democrats have found a new way to set up super PACs and rake in dark money, further weakening our campaign finance system.

Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors until after the election are gaining popularity among both Democrats and Republicans.

Almost all of the spending by outside groups backing Democrats in Senate races since Labor Day has come from “dark money” sources.