Tag: dark money
Minnesota Senate passes Democracy for the People Act—prohibits foreign-influenced corporate spending...
The bill, which garnered 80 percent of Minnesota voters' support, according to a statewide poll conducted in November, will head to the governor's desk, who pledged to sign it.
Clarence Thomas proves it’s time for Supreme Court term limits
If justices can be bought by billionaires, lifetime terms only enable corruption rather than protect the U.S. Supreme Court from undue influence.
Sanders backs renewed push for ban on Dark Money in democratic...
"If Democrats really believe in democracy and campaign finance reform, we must ban super PACs in primaries," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
‘Why are these conflicts allowed?’ corporate giving to group tied to...
"You want to 'preserve #SCOTUS history'?'" said one watchdog group. "Hire a curatorial staff. Don't run a pay-for-play."
How to ‘follow the money’ in a political campaign
The donors who help shape this country deserve as much scrutiny and publicity as the politicians they support. After all, this country belongs to us.
Dark money groups have pumped $1 billion into GOP effort to...
The finding comes a month after Senate Republicans tanked a bill that would have required dark money groups to disclose their donors and funding sources.
Republican AGs, dark money groups scheme to sue over student debt...
Conservatives are hoping right-wing courts will intervene to deny debt relief to tens of millions of borrowers.
Who is Barre Seid? Secretive tycoon gives record $1.6 billion to...
The donor is Barre Seid, who donated all of his shares in his electronics company, Tripp Lite, to the nonprofit group run by Leonard Leo, who helped select former President Trump’s conservative Supreme Court nominees.
In politics, money will always talk. Unless…
In an unequal society, a society dominated by concentrated wealth, democracy will always be “damnably difficult.”
‘Time for Citizens United to go’: US oligarchs poured $1.2 billion...
"Billionaires shouldn't get to use their enormous wealth to pick and choose who they want in office."
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
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Women leaders and Trump 2.0.