All Articles on Super PACs
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Views Do Media Really Care About Money in Politics? All that soft money doesn’t go to the candidates—most of it goes directly toward ad buys, so it supports the salaries of people like Maddow and Bolduan. They aren’t about to bite the hand that feeds them. Read more |
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News Sanders Campaign, Progressives Rip Biden Super PAC: 'Enough of the Wealthy and Powerful Buying Candidates and Elections' "The reality is... he's an AstroTurf candidate," said writer Norman Solomon. Read more |
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News 'Not How We Defeat Trump,' Says Sanders Campaign After Biden Opens Door to Super PACs "The former Vice President has been unable to generate grassroots support, and now his campaign is endorsing an effort to buy the primary through a super PAC that can rake in unlimited cash from billionaires and corporations." Read more |
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News The Pro-Trump Super PAC at the Center of the Ukraine Scandal Has Faced Multiple Campaign Finance Complaints Randy Perkins donated $500,000 to America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC, a day after his company won federal money as part of a contract. The same PAC was dubbed “Committee 1” in a federal indictment alleging illegal donations from two Rudy Giuliani associates. Read more |
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News In Step Toward Ending Dark-Money Elections, Court to Review Case That Created Super PACs "We need to put 'We the People' back in charge, and that starts by closing the gaping super PAC loophole that has allowed dark money to overwhelm our elections." Read more |
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News Latest Sign of 'Broken' Democracy as Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Drops $30 Million on GOP Super PAC "Democracy means one person, one vote. It does not mean billionaires like Sheldon Adelson buying elections," said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Read more |
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Views Florida’s Senate Race: Does It Matter? The Nelson-Scott match up is...little more substantive than peas in a pod or birds of a feather who will flock together Read more |
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Views Who Won in 2016? Big Money. Neither Clinton nor Trump took on the role of corporate mega-donors this election. Read more |
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News To Reclaim Democracy, New Lawsuit Aims to Be 'Death of the Super PAC' "For too long, opponents of campaign finance reform have set the agenda in the courts. Today, we're taking back the initiative." Read more |
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Views How Small Donors Are Giving Super PACs a Run for Their Money From Washington state to South Dakota, voters are pushing for public-matching systems to replace the influence wealthy bankrollers have on government. Read more |