Tag: Super PACs
Election spending boosted by secret money tops $100M as IRS ends...
By choosing to keep their donors secret, these groups leave voters in the dark as to exactly who is funding their political activities. And the IRS won't know either.
Wealthy donors and fossil fuel interests pump millions into Super PACs...
Koch Industries leads corporate contributions.
Wall Street donor influence shows unprecedented growth 10 years after Citizens...
After a candidate is elected, mega-donors look to influence public policy, which occurs fairly regularly in politics
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."
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.
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."
Blue wave of money propels 2018 election to record-breaking $5.2 billion...
The high levels of partial disclosure suggest that dark money is not disappearing.
The hidden money funding the midterms
Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors until after the election are gaining popularity among both Democrats and Republicans.
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.
Turning churches into super PACs
A bogus campaign for "religious freedom" could create unholy temples of dark money.
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Keystone XL pipeline canceled. Here’s what it means for the future fight against fossil...
“Rescinding KXL’s permit is a promising early signal that the new administration is listening to our concerns and will take issues of climate and Indigenous justice seriously. We have to insist that it not stop there.”
The Leadership Institute: Conservative PR school
Trumpism, most unfortunately, is still with us—as is The Leadership Institute with its arch right-wing operation, now extending globally.
‘Treasonous’ Patriots? Defunct exceptionalism? Inverse MAGA? The right smash-mouths its own perfidy
A cult of empty-headed, arm-waving stunts, as with the "rigged" election, is in the end no more than absurdist tomfoolery.
Virginia police officers suspended without pay for joining Capitol riots
The penalty for the misdemeanor is up to a year in jail. The penalty for the petty offense is up to six months in jail.
‘We’ve let the worst happen’: Reflecting on 400,000 dead
Eight months later, with 300,000 additional American lives lost and the chaotic distribution of the vaccine underway, Caroline Chen, health care reporter, shares her thoughts on where we are and what happens next.