How a high-tech darling tried, and failed, to get the Clinton campaign to take sides in an intra-Democratic Party race.
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Big Money Floods High-Stakes Gubernatorial Contests
Corporate interests are funneling hundreds of millions into a dozen state-level gubernatorial battles.
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Time for an ACLU Shift on Campaign Finance?
The American Civil Liberties Union’s selection of David Cole as its new national legal director creates an opening for the group to revisit a campaign-finance stance that is increasingly out of step with its members and the nation.
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Big Money May Not Save GOP Senators
Conservative super PACs have poured hundreds of millions into this year’s Senate contests, but even their massive war chests may not be enough to save Republicans this year.
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Q&A: The Fight Against Expanding Corporate Power
A conversation with Brennan Center Fellow Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on corporate personhood, campaign-finance reform, and how to rein in corporate political power.
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How the Real Estate Lobby — and Trump — Got a Huge Tax Break
Amid an economic recession, the industry, with the help of Trump, flexed its political muscle to get a special tax carve-out for wealthy developers.
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More Corporations Embrace Disclosure, Despite Conservative Opposition
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is in a standoff with Democrats as he refuses to remove a rider to a short-term funding bill that would prohibit the Securities and Exchange Commission from strengthening political disclosure requirements for corporations. Stopping measures that would shine some light on corporations’ secret political spending is a top priority […]
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#NeverTrump Crowd Raises Big Money for Trump
A new donor-shielding group lays to rest the notion that conservative opposition to Trump ever rested on principle.
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Secret Money Floods Judicial Elections
Unlimited, undisclosed spending is playing an ever-greater role in state supreme court races, undermining the fairness of the courts and putting judges at risk of conflicts of interest.
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Republicans Would Rather Impeach Than Disclose
The GOP campaign to ensure total secrecy for politically active tax-exempt groups is getting harder to justify amid court rulings and document leaks that condemn “dark” money.
