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Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections
Bernie Sanders is angry about big money's wholesale purchase of political power.
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A Kansas Group’s Push to Oust Judges Reveals a Gap in Campaign Finance Rules
Kansas election overseers are grappling with a new kind of dark money.
Is Your Judge for Sale? Dark Money Groups Pour Millions Into Judicial Races to Reshape Courts
Anonymous donors are reshaping judicial races by pouring millions of dollars in “dark money” into races.
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Dark Money in Coal Country
The dark money group gunning for Republican Senator Mitch McConnell's re-election has spent at least $14 million so far.
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In Midterm Elections Farce, Public Ignored by Both Parties
With both parties representing big money rather than competing economic visions, voters are opting out.
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Super PACs Exploit Disclosure Loophole
Last-minute registration means groups may hide donors until after Election Day.
In Wisconsin, Dark Money Got a Mining Company What It Wanted
An accidentally released court filing reveals how one company secretly gave money to a nonprofit that helped get favorable mining legislation passed.
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Noncandidate Spending Increases in State Elections
The Citizens United court case has impact beyond Beltway.
Dark Money Corruption of Democracy Forces Climate Change Direct Action and Mass Mobilization
Seventeen critical years after the Kyoto Protocol signing, climate activists have come to realize that when our governments are bought and sold, policy shifts must begin in the streets.
Historic US Senate Vote; Democracy for All Amendment Is Common Sense
The promise of American democracy is colliding with the unpleasant reality of an emerging American plutocracy.