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The Federal Election Commission is down to 2 members. So its work is at a standstill
Ashley Lopez, NPR
The Federal Election Commission, which regulates campaign finance, has lost another member. But the FEC has actually been without a quorum for months, leaving the agency unable to do much of its work.
Oct 4, 2025, 9:00 AM
Noem fast-tracked millions in disaster aid to Florida tourist attraction after donor intervened
Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliot, Alex Mierjeski, Salon
Emails show one way to get around Kristi Noem's slowdown of aid: have one of her big donors make the ask.
Sep 28, 2025, 10:00 AM
Trump’s Hurricane Helene Fund Raised Millions. Good Luck Finding the Receipts
Katie Myers, Grist, Gizmodo.com
The presidential campaign bad-mouthed FEMA while using crowdfunding to donate to evangelical nonprofits.
Sep 24, 2025, 4:35 PM
Zuckerberg Gets a Personal Political Piggy Bank With Meta Super Pac
Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo.com
Meta is turbo charging its political influence machine.
Sep 17, 2025, 1:35 PM
Larry Ellison was briefly the world's richest man. Here are the politicians he's spent money to support over the years.
Bryan Metzger, Business Insider
The biggest beneficiary of the Oracle cofounder's largesse has been Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who ran for president in 2024.
Sep 13, 2025, 10:17 AM
Congress Republicans want to target liberal donors after Charlie Kirk’s death
Lauren Feiner, The Verge
In wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s public killing, around two dozen Republican lawmakers are pushing for House leadership to create a new select committee that would investigate “The money, influence, and power behind the radical left’s assault on …
Sep 12, 2025, 9:52 PM
Democrats launch probe into Trump son-in-law over alleged wedding deal
Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are launching a probe into Michael Boulos, the son-in-law of President Trump, following...
Aug 29, 2025, 5:40 PM
Moderate North Carolina Democrat Won’t Take AIPAC Cash for 2026
Jonah Valdez, The Intercept
Rep. Deborah Ross became the latest Democrat to swear off AIPAC amid pressure to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza. The post Moderate North Carolina Democrat Won’t Take AIPAC Cash for 2026 appeared first on The Intercept.
Aug 29, 2025, 10:30 AM
Tech’s Heavy Hitters Are Spending Big to Ensure a Pro-AI Congress
Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo.com
$100 million and campaign season is nowhere in sight.
Aug 26, 2025, 12:45 PM
Supreme Court Architect Is Pumping Money Into the Midterms
Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone
Leonard Leo, the right-wing activist and longtime Federalist Society honcho, is helping back Republican candidates in multiple key 2026 midterm races.
Aug 25, 2025, 2:56 PM
Dems Are Struggling to Register Voters and Raise Money
Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone
The Democratic Party is struggling to register voters and raise money ahead of the 2026 midterms, when the party hopes to win back the House.
Aug 20, 2025, 6:23 PM
Elon Musk Gave Millions to Trump After Publicly Blowing Up Their Bromance
Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo.com
Musk seems to still want to be in Trump's good graces, even after accusing the President of being in the Epstein files.
Aug 1, 2025, 9:00 PM
Peter Thiel's political hiatus is over. Here's where his money's flowing now.
Bryan Metzger, Business Insider
Thiel recently said that he's "schizophrenic" about political giving, saying that "it's incredibly important, and it's incredibly toxic."
Jul 26, 2025, 11:29 AM
Kyrsten Sinema Still Spending Campaign Funds Lavishly
Ed Scarce, Crooksandliars.com
Like Donald Trump, Kyrsten Sinema has proven that the system now in place is there to be used by unscrupulous people, that the FEC is essentially irrelevant, and that politicians who just don't care how things look can use creative accounting to do whatever t…
Jul 20, 2025, 9:40 PM
Virginia AG Hopeful Was Outraising His Rival — Then Dominion Energy Tipped the Scale
Matt Sledge, The Intercept
“The scale of these contributions appears to be unprecedented in Virginia Attorney General races.” The post Virginia AG Hopeful Was Outraising His Rival — Then Dominion Energy Tipped the Scale appeared first on The Intercept.
Jun 14, 2025, 9:00 AM
The Democrats’ resistance to Trump is a hollow performance
Donald Earl Collins, Al Jazeera English
Beholden to the same pro-Israel, corporate and tech donors, Democrats have little ability - or desire - to resist Trump.
Jun 12, 2025, 3:35 PM
Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
The US taxpayer is going to be on the hook for all the soldiers, tanks, and planes that appear in Donald Trump's military parade. But several major tech companies are paying for the festivities along the parade route. According to recent statements from Ameri…
Jun 12, 2025, 2:57 AM
Did Republicans Take Washington in a Landslide? Not So Much
The New York Times
President-elect Donald J. Trump was the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades, but by only a 1.5-point margin, the narrowest since 2000.
Jan 15, 2025, 11:41 PM
Elon Musk’s PAC spent an estimated $200 million to help elect Trump
Chicago Tribune
Elon Musk’s super PAC spent around $200 million to help elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the group’s spending, funding an effort that set a new standard for how billionaires can influence elections.
Nov 11, 2024, 11:33 PM
'This is our Agincourt': Trump's campaigners are pounding the streets of a crucial election battleground
Sky News
When Kamala Harris lost her lead in Pennsylvania a few days ago, the state became the election's tightest race. Now Trump's Mighty American Strike Force is out on the streets, bolstering his support.
Nov 3, 2024, 10:53 PM
Trump will Spend Every Day Until the Election in North Carolina, a Swing State he Won Twice
Deccan Chronicle
Gastonia: Donald Trump will rally supporters in North Carolina every day until Tuesday's election, a flurry of late activity in the only swing state that he won in both his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. ...
Nov 2, 2024, 8:21 PM
Harris and Trump raid war chests hunting votes in final blitz of vital swing states in US election
ABC News
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have been barnstorming the battleground states with private jets, sprawling ground games and war chests that need to be raided.
Nov 2, 2024, 6:36 PM
US judge returns lawsuit against Elon Musk’s $1m voter scheme to state court
The Guardian
Civil suit claims that tech billionaire and his Trump-supporting America Pac giveaway is illegal lottery
Nov 1, 2024, 9:27 PM
Musk tests the role of money in U.S. politics with multimillion-dollar effort to back Trump
Yahoo Canada Finance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week's presidential election isn't just a referendum on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. It's also a measure of the influence the world's richest man wields over American democracy.
Nov 1, 2024, 8:57 PM