Private Hospitals Use Dark Money to Smear Medicare for All

Ilana Novick / Truthdig Oct 15, 2019 The policy is getting more popular in voter polls, and for-profit health care is scared. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Billionaires, Not Voters, Are Deciding Elections

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Nov 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 )

Dark Money Is Flooding This Year’s Midterm Elections

Derek Willis / ProPublica and Maggie Stevens / Politico Oct 9, 2018 Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors are gaining popularity among Democrats and Republicans alike. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Behold the Devastating Consequences of Citizens United

Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams Sep 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 )

‘Dark Money’ Protagonist Steve Bullock Enters 2020 Race

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jul 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 )

Who Will Protect Elections From U.S. Oligarchs?

Paul Street / Truthdig Apr 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 )

Dark Money Then, Trumpocalypse Now

Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Feb 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 )

Battles for Senate Lead to ‘Precipitous Rise’ in Cloaked Money Spending

By Deirdre Fulton / Common Dreams Nov 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 )

Here’s How Conservatives Keep ‘Dark Money’ Dark

By Robert Faturechi / ProPublica Feb 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 )

Citizens United Anniversary: How Anthony Kennedy Turned American Democracy Into an ‘Open Sewer’

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jan 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 )

Who’s Funding the 2016 Election? For the Most Part, We’ll Never Know

By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams Jan 13, 2016 Federal regulators say they have few ways to police coordination between candidates and super PACs in the post-Citizens United landscape. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Happy Holidays, Super PACs: The FEC Removes Yet Another Block Against Dark Money

By Nadia Prupis / Common Dreams Dec 28, 2015 A little-noticed new rule allows candidates to solicit money for their super PACs -- as long as the potential donors are meeting in a small group. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )