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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
Trump Allies Issue Warning That He Could Lose Critical Battleground State
Newsweek
Allies of former President Donald Trump have highlighted that the Republican nominee could lose Pennsylvania due to higher women early voter turnout.
Oct 31, 2024, 10:12 PM
Experts Predict Trump Could Call Election Early. What Happens if He Loses?
Newsweek
"He will most likely call the election early no matter what the results are showing," one political scientist said.
Oct 23, 2024, 10:56 PM
Reports: Justice Department warns Elon Musk over his $1M giveaway plan for voters
UPI News
Billionaire now Trump campaign surrogate Elon Musk and his America PAC have been warned by the U.S. Justice Department in recent days that his pledge to give $1M to registered swing-state voters may violate the law.
Oct 23, 2024, 10:42 PM
Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day giveaway, explained
Vox.com
Musk’s “lottery” is only available in swing states and seems meant to appeal to potential Trump voters.
Oct 21, 2024, 9:55 PM
Trump and Harris shift strategies on the trail amid security threats
NBC News
Trump and Harris have pulled back on stops at small businesses that are meant to feel more spontaneous, amid security concerns and reluctance from local owners.
Oct 21, 2024, 9:06 PM
A presidential race awash in cash and eyeball-chasing ads
The Globe and Mail
As a result of their heftier fundraising, Democrats have consistently outspent the Trump campaign by wide margins on both digital and TV advertising
Oct 20, 2024, 11:29 PM
Elon Musk's Million Dollar Election Influence: A Closer Look
Devdiscourse
Elon Musk has sparked controversy by promising $1 million daily giveaways to attendees at Trump-supporting rallies until Election Day. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has urged law enforcement to examine Musk’s actions for potential legal breaches as they could influence the upcoming presidential election.
Oct 20, 2024, 11:12 PM
Elon Musk’s daily $1 million giveaway to registered voters could be illegal, experts say
Cable News Network
While stumping for former President Donald Trump on Saturday, tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he will give away $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states, immediately drawing scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register.
Oct 20, 2024, 10:47 PM