Can the movement rebuild itself below the Mason-Dixon line, and change Southern politics in the process?
Justin Miller
Justin Miller covers politics and state government for the Texas Observer. He is a former Prospect writing fellow, and has also written for The Intercept, The New Republic, and In These Times. Follow @by_jmiller
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Democratic Senators Up Pressure on SEC Disclosure
A handful of Democratic senators who sit on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee have stepped up pressure on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to require corporations to comprehensively disclose their political spending, even though Congress limited the agency’s ability to do so in last year’s spending bill. Senators Elizabeth Warren of […]
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On Citizens United Anniversary, John Sarbanes Speaks
Since the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United v. FEC ruling exactly six years ago, the massive influx of outside groups propped up by billionaire donors has sparked a national conversation about the growing influence of money in the American political system. And as the conversation advances, a whole host of solutions have been proposed for […]
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Obama ‘Seriously Considering’ Contractor Executive Order
The New York Times reported Wednesday that President Obama is “seriously considering” an executive order that would require federal contractors to more fully disclose their political spending, a move that campaign reform advocates say would be a symbolic first step toward shining a light on undisclosed “dark” money. The Times report follows increased pressure from […]
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GOP House Member Wants to Ban Fundraising
House Republican David Jolly, of Florida, is so sick of dialing for dollars every day that he introduced legislation Tuesday that would forbid members of Congress from personally asking for money. “Our nation is under siege by ISIS, and yet … I’m expected to be fighting for your safety from a fundraising call suite at […]
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The Labor Prospect: Unions in 2016
The UFCW endorses Clinton, West Virginia moves toward right-to-work, and Huffington Post officially goes union.
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Can Republicans Embrace Campaign-Finance Reform?
The Prospect sits down with Nick Penniman, a reform advocate who is working for a campaign-finance compromise on Capitol Hill.
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Report: The Roberts Court’s Five Campaign Finance Reversals
By now, everyone knows about Citizens United and the flood of unlimited outside spending ushered in by that infamous Supreme Court decision. But that ruling is just one of five major Roberts Court decisions that have completely reshaped the campaign-finance landscape over the past decade, concludes a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice […]
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Bernie Trolls Hillary in Response to Single-Payer Attacks
As Senator Bernie Sanders’s polling numbers surge in Iowa and New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is going on the offensive. Clinton is attempting to spin Sanders’s longtime support for a single-payer health-care system as a radical idea that would harm the middle class-and one that has no realistic funding source. And it’s quickly turning into […]
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Can a Sanders ‘Proxy’ Oust Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
Liberal activist and Wall Street–reform advocate Tim Canova is staging a primary challenge against the DNC chair and Clinton ally.
