All Articles on Citizens United
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Views Breaking the Fourth Wall of Democracy In an election when our political system has been on trial, Donald Trump is putting it to the ultimate test. Read more |
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Views Does Big Money Still Matter? During the past few months, I’ve been flying around the country talking about my new book Corporate Citizen? , which deals with money in politics and our privately-financed elections. (I’ll be talking about the book in New York October 27th .) One of the fair questions I’m asked is whether campaign... Read more |
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Views Democrats' Embrace of Corporate Cash Isn't Pragmatic, It's Ideological Democrats were once ardent opponents—at least in word—of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which has, as the New York Times editorial board noted , "thrust politics back to the robber-baron era of the 19th century." They were also proponents of the view that corporate money, no matter... Read more |
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News Blow for Transparency as Supreme Court Rejects Wisconsin Corruption Case "Today's decision means that, for now, the people of Wisconsin will not know what special interests are secretly bankrolling their politicians" Read more |
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Views Doing What the Feds Won’t on Corporate Political Disclosure A tiny Washington nonprofit is trying to do what Congress and the SEC won't. Read more |
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News Leaked 'John Doe' Docs Offer Stark Look at Post-Citizens United Landscape Exposé speaks to 'mounting sense of public unease about the cozy relationship between politicians and big business,' writes the Guardian Read more |
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News Koch Brothers Waging War Against Local Effort to Expose Dark Money South Dakota residents in November will vote on Initiated Measure 22, which seeks to remedy the state's problem of political corruption Read more |
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Views Don't Be Fooled By Small Donations to Presidential Campaigns Is $69 the new $27? When Bernie Sanders ended his run for the Democratic nomination, the small donor narrative seemed over for this presidential cycle. But last week, small donors roared back, reportedly fueling Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee’s huge July fundraising take. At a... Read more |
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Views Big Money vs. Black Lives: Movement Connects Money in Politics to Racial Justice This week, a coalition of more than 50 organizations connected to the Black Lives Matter movement released a highly-anticipated policy agenda document, " A Vision for Black Lives ." Rooted in the cause launched in 2013 to protest the killings of African Americans by police, the document began to... Read more |
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News With Clinton at Helm, Democratic Party Again a 'Plaything of the Super-Rich' Back-to-back fundraisers with Hollywood elite and fossil fuel industry hope to boost an already sizable war chest Read more |