Campaign Finance

Industry Was Doubly Generous With These 13 GOP Senators Now Drafting Trumpcare

Pro-Democracy Activists Arrested at Pennsylvania Capitol Demanding Reforms

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

After marching 100 miles from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, a group of activists demanding that the Pennsylvania state government "get big money out of the political system" were arrested at the state Capitol on Monday for, as one observer put it , "chanting too loud." The March on Harrisburg protesters spent the first of the three-day civil...

How Much to Buy a Congressional Vote? New Research Seeks Answer

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

While it is conventional wisdom that money influences politics, researchers...

Feinstein Hosts Industry Fundraiser Days After Dissing Single Payer

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

To the dismay of her constituents, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) refuses...

Watch: Bernie Sanders Talks 'Dark Money' with Journalist Who Literally Wrote the Book On It

Gorsuch Refuses Chance to Condemn 'Dark Money' Lobbying on His Behalf

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How SCOTUS Campaign Finance Rulings 'Distorted' US Democracy

Opposition Rises Against Anti-Woman, Pro-Corporate Nominee Neil Gorsuch

Trump May Have Found a Way to Stack Commissions With 'Sympathetic' Nominees

With DOJ Reversal on Private Prisons, Corporate Jailers Get What They Paid For

Fed Up with 'Dysfunction and Deadlock,' Former FEC Chair Will Resign

Trump Seeks to Take Wrecking Ball to Division Between Church and State

EPA Pick Pruitt Awash in Industry Cash as Nomination Battle Heats Up

Corporate Education Nominee DeVos Faces Pushback from Dem Senators

Sanders and Dems Demand Betsy DeVos Pay $5.3 Million Fine for Campaign Finance Violations

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Moonshot: Lessig Calls May Day On Our Democracy With A SuperPAC For Political Reform

A year after the death of Aaron Swarz, who convinced him to take up the fight, academic and activist Lawrence Lessig has launched the MAYDAY Citizens' SuperPAC, an ambitious campaign to fight corruption in American politics by raising enough money - starting with $1 million in 30 days - to elect legislators who will pass meaningful campaign finance reform. Likening the effort to leaping off a high building, but also "the beginning of hope," Lessig describes his "unstoppable walk to political...