Republican leaders are reeling from their primary loss in Alabama and the demise of their health-care bill, but they have only themselves—and their big donors—to blame.
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In Defense of ‘Dark Money’
Why progressives should learn to love “social welfare” nonprofits
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Collecting Campaign Cash from the Homeless
In a system driven by big donors, a pioneering Seattle program hands the campaign-finance purse strings to average and even homeless voters.
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Shareholders Demand Disclosure — and Republicans Push Back
As corporate political spending mounts, so does pressure on companies to disclose it—a movement Republicans want to stop.
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Should ‘Dark’ Money Power the Resistance to Trump?
Many anti-Trump groups have organized themselves as nonprofits, a move that could draw IRS scrutiny and undercut Democrats’ transparency message.
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For Feingold, “LegitAction” Is One Way to Stave Off Threats to Democracy
Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold has decided to jump back into the national spotlight with LegitAction, a new online political advocacy group that plans to help local grassroots organizations raise their public profiles. Relying on social media as well as traditional platforms like newspapers, the Wisconsin Democrat founded LegitAction in March to educate the public […]
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New PAC Will Back Every Single Democrat Running for Congress
For the past two decades, Democratic fundraiser and operative Jonathan Zucker has been fed up with the way his party doles out funds to candidates. The problem, as Zucker sees it, is that Democrats distribute most of their funds to candidates running in swing districts that the party sees as winnable, instead of divvying the […]
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Big Money’s Other Casualty: Fair Courts
Record spending by secretive outside special interests in state supreme court races poses a stark threat to the impartiality of the nation’s courts.
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Republicans Gear Up to Eviscerate the Campaign-Finance Rules
From “Charity PACs” to soft money, Donald Trump and his GOP allies are just getting started on their campaign to roll back restrictions on moneyed interests.
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Stalled at the Federal Level, Democracy Advocates Look to the States
Republicans control Washington now, but a string of successful campaign finance ballot initiatives at the state and local level has buoyed the democracy movement.
