Tag: dark money
To critics who say climate action is ‘too expensive,’ Greta Thunberg...
During an event in New York City Monday night with author and environmentalist Naomi Klein, 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg had a simple message...
New ‘dark money’ group devotes multi-million dollar budget to ads helping...
A new “dark money” group funded by secret donors plans to spend almost all of its $10.4 million budget on ads helping...
Obama-tied operatives and Biden supporters launch $60 million ‘dark money’ group
The recently-launched Future Majority will spend up to $60 million to target voters in swing states.
How the IRS gave up fighting political dark money groups
“There are new loopholes being exploited every day.”
‘The system is rigged:’ Democrats drop corporate and PAC money amid...
“In order to return trust [to] our democratic institutions, we need to … allow for the voters to feel that their voices are heard and that they don’t have to write a big check in order to gain access into our congressional offices.”
Money talks, big time
Polls show that an overwhelming majority of Americans support stricter laws to prevent wealth from hijacking politics and want the Citizens United ruling overturned.
In step toward ending dark-money elections, court to review case that...
"For nearly a decade, the SpeechNow ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has allowed big money donors to evade federal campaign contribution limits and corrupt even further our political process."
State of money in politics: Billion-dollar ‘dark money’ spending is just...
The dark money landscape is more than just direct spending, hundreds of millions more is being funneled through other kinds of groups that don’t fully disclose their donors.
Inside Donald Trump’s army of super PACs and MAGA nonprofits
Trump’s army of organized support has expanded since then, with a dozen or so major nonprofits and super PACs pushing his policy platform and priming the public for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.
How Scott Walker made Wisconsin the national poster child for dark...
"Citizens can't exercise their right to self-governance if we don't know who is funding our representatives."
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2021: Half of America facing poverty
For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can't work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns.
Trump breaks world records for longest tax audit, if not presidential scandals
Why doesn’t every pundit and every journalist keep repeating: “Deliver the returns. Cut the audit BS. End the legal smoke and mirrors.”
Who for Veep?
The big question for Bernie-ites is who they want for vice-president.
Bernie welcomes Sen. Schumer’s support to cut defense budget by 10 percent during pandemic
"If there was ever a time to fundamentally change our national priorities, now is that time."