Tag: lobbyists
Republican party raking in millions from Trump-tied foreign agent and lobbyist...
Most of the lobbyists raising money for the RNC and joint fundraising committee are from Trump-connected lobbying firms that brought in record revenues in 2019.
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.
With the Super Bowl around the corner, NFL money blitzes Washington
A massive, culturally significant business can’t afford to stay on the sidelines of American politics and rather than waiting on a Hail Mary pass, the NFL takes control of their fate through lobbying and its PAC.
Where there’s smoke, there’s Boehner
But the crassness of this Boehner cannabis pitch somehow symbolizes, to me anyway, how low too many of our craven, so-called public servants are willing to stoop for an almighty buck once they’re out of office.
‘Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where’s labor? Activists?’ Tlaib...
"Democratic leadership signs off on these events. The new class isn't having it."
Donald Trump vs. the Koch brothers: A major rift – or...
Steve Bannon is back, almost – and is likely pulling Trump’s strings in his supposed feud with the Koch brothers.
After long career bailing out big banks, Obama Treasury Secretary Tim...
"Your economy, rigged to redistribute wealth to the top."
Oil companies and lobbyists say they’re ready to solve climate change....
But when one examines the fine print of the deal – and the financial benefits flowing to some of the people touting it – the effort looks much less utopian.
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.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.