Faced with GOP-drawn electoral maps that are rigged against them, Democrats are pouring millions into a campaign to fight back.
Eliza Newlin Carney
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Ethics Watchdog Can Only Do So Much
To really take on the Trump administration, the Office of Government Ethics would need a stronger arsenal.
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Trump’s Assault on the ‘Administrative State’
Everybody loves to hate government workers, but Republicans have set out to dismantle merit-based civil service rules that protect against patronage and graft.
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Lobbying for Foreign Interests — and Not Reporting It
The Russia probe has exposed U.S. lobbyists representing foreign interests in secret. The Justice Department isn’t doing anything about it.
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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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The Women’s Hour
Already on the front lines of the resistance to Donald Trump, women are stepping forward by the thousands to pursue first-time bids for public office.
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A White House Without Rules
The Trump administration’s most troubling conflicts involve the president’s closest advisers, employees the White House argues operate entirely outside the ethics laws.
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Will the Koch Brothers Save Obamacare?
The health-care lobby is out in force again, but this time the allegiances are scrambled and unpredictable.
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The FEC’s Open Hostilities, Dysfunction, and Intimidation Foreshadowed the Trump Era
Things could actually get worse at the Federal Election Commission, which has become the poster child for agency capture and political retribution under Trump.