Tag: dark money
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."
Warren shuts down her joint fundraising PAC, urges 2020 Democratic presidential...
"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."
Trump 2020 campaign used a shell company to pay ad buyers...
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.
2017 financials of the Koch’s dark money network
The Koch network may be changing its face and money flow, but it appears to be still just as powerful as ever.
The Koch brothers’ Freedom Partners Group spends $115.2 million in 2017
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.
Pro-Trump ‘dark money’ group’s first tax return reveals millions in previously...
As a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” nonprofit, is not allowed to have politics as its primary purpose despite spending millions on politicking.
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