Katya Schwenk / The LeverFeb 9, 2024
As super PACs continue to blast the airwaves with ads, the broadcast and tech lobbies reap the benefits of protecting the secrets of their shadowy benefactors. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Katya Schwenk / The LeverJan 12, 2024
Following 737 crashes, the GOP presidential hopeful helped crush a proposal to force more disclosure of Boeing’s spending to influence safety regulators. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Ilana Novick / TruthdigOct 15, 2019
The policy is getting more popular in voter polls, and for-profit health care is scared. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigNov 9, 2018
As voters, we need to become literate in the ways of the moneyed class when it comes to elections. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Derek Willis / ProPublica and Maggie Stevens / PoliticoOct 9, 2018
Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors are gaining popularity among Democrats and Republicans alike. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Jessica Corbett / Common DreamsSep 13, 2018
A new analysis finds just 15 groups were responsible for more than 75 percent of the dark money spent between 2010 and 2016. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigJul 7, 2018
Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer discusses the documentary “Dark Money” with its director and the journalist who broke the story of how corporations infiltrated Montana’s elections. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )
Paul Street / TruthdigApr 18, 2018
The nation's campaign finance free-for-all is one reason the Electoral Integrity Project ranks the democratic integrity of our elections dead last among the West's democracies. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Glen Ford / Black Agenda ReportFeb 5, 2018
The Russians didn't bring us Donald Trump. It was the usual suspects: private equity and hedge funds bandits. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Deirdre Fulton / Common DreamsNov 2, 2016
Top 10 Senate races see record spending from outside groups, which are free to accept unlimited donations and sometimes are able to conceal their funders from the public. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Robert Faturechi / ProPublicaFeb 7, 2016
In internal memos, groups opposing tighter state campaign finance rules are coaching their local supporters on how to battle disclosure of political donors. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigJan 23, 2016
The Supreme Court justice masterminded the 2010 decision to undo a century of public-interest regulation of campaign expenditures in the name of "free speech." He had every reason to know how damaging that decision would prove to be. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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