The 2026 primaries will likely see even bigger levels of corporate and issue-based PAC spending. But there may be diminishing returns on these investments.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: How the Supreme Court Legalized Political Corruption
David and Master Plan co-author David Sirota go through the 50-year history of corporations plotting to buy the government.
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AI Is Changing How Politics Is Practiced in America
AI is poised to play a more volatile role than ever before in America’s next federal election in 2026. With little prospect of regulatory action, there are no safeguards against the dramatic potential impacts for our democracy.
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Progressive Groups Form Counterweight to AIPAC’s Electoral Push
Twenty-four organizations will launch a ‘seven-figure’ campaign to defend progressive Democrats. The Israel lobby’s first foray into primaries this year fell flat.
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Democrats Need a Party Publication
The New York Times is not going to get Biden’s campaign message before voters.
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Investment Industry Donors Bankroll Sinema in Q2
Donors at Blackstone, the Carlyle Group, and other investment firms have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Sinema’s leadership PAC, which has been spending on upscale events and private flights.
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Nina Turner Lost to the Redbox
How Shontel Brown used questionably legal campaign finance tactics to take a House seat
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Seattle’s Public Financing Breakthrough
The city’s innovative “democracy voucher” program, adopted to diversify campaign donors and candidates, continues to make strides.
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Can the ‘Senate Six’ Beat Voter Suppression and Democratic Disinvestment?
The results among Black Democratic candidates in the South may provide fresh clues about the direction of the party and the country.
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Unsanitized, Election Edition: Following the (Cancelled) Money
Where campaigns are spending big or pulling out can tell you a lot. This is The Election 2020 Daily Report for October 28, 2020.
