Tag: dark money
Study: Most Americans want to kill ‘Citizens United’ with constitutional amendment
Both Republican and Democratic voters want to amend the Constitution to limit big money’s role in politics.
A quiet conspiracy of billionaires
For decades, the Koch brothers have led a secret coup for the billionaire class.
Examining the Kochtopus
The Koch brothers have used their enormous assets to mount a far-ranging, ultrasophisticated assault on American democracy.
Koch document reveals laundry list of policy victories extracted from the...
In recent days, Koch network groups have purchased ads targeting Democratic lawmakers in key elections across the country.
The $24 million reasons Dems back America’s worst banks
In a world where Republicans have already been bought and paid for, there is no room for Democrats who act in bad faith.
Inside the grassroots plan to get fossil fuel money out of...
To advocates who have been involved with both efforts, the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge represents the extension of divestment’s logic into the political sphere.
The Gulf monarchies and the corruption of US foreign policy
Considering the money involved, we probably shouldn’t expect any further investigations to shine a light on the corrupting influence of these decadent absolute monarchies on American democracy.
Coal lobbyist hosted fundraisers for senators evaluating his nomination for top...
Andrew Wheeler raised funds for Republican senators on the committee that makes the preliminary decision on confirming appointments to the agency.
Koch brothers pledge to spend $400 million on 2018 midterm elections
The Koch brothers, one of America's wealthiest families, pledged to spend their money "on campaign contributions and policy initiatives."
Fed up with corporate-rigged politics?
A burgeoning movement has formed, not merely just to protest or lobby against the government — it intends to become the government.
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The winner at the DNC’s latest meeting? Israel, ethnic cleansing and genocide
Why did pro-Israel groups voice so much pleasure and praise—not only for the sidelining of pro-human-rights resolutions but also for the process that sidelined them?
UN experts demand halt to arms transfers as Israel’s Lebanon strikes intensify and Senate...
Human rights investigators warn attacks undermine international law while U.S. lawmakers reject another attempt to curb expanding regional conflict.
Big oil cashes in as Trump’s Iran war drives $30 million per hour windfall...
Analysis shows fossil fuel giants capturing massive gains as oil prices surge during conflict, intensifying scrutiny over war-driven economic impacts.
The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...
How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.
The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push
Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.