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October 31, 2024
Paige Oamek
Elon Musk Exposed for Tricking Campaign Workers into Helping Trump
Workers for Elon Musk’s America PAC said they didn’t even realize they were canvassing on behalf of Donald Trump.
October 25, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Sketchy Pro-Trump Group Emerges at Last Minute to Skirt Campaign Rules
Donald Trump just got a big boost from a shady new super PAC.
October 23, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Latest Financial Backers Come With a Seriously Sketchy Catch
There’s a sinister detail abut Donald Trump’s latest financial backers.
October 11, 2024
Greg Sargent
Could Trump Win? Yes, and Some Dems Are Quietly Saying They Know Why
Insiders are raising some tough questions about the strategic decisions made by Future Forward, the biggest Super PAC pulling for Kamala Harris.
August 13, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Ilhan Omar’s Primary Challenger May Have Broken the Law to Beat Her
A consultant working for Don Samuels’s campaign was also coordinating with a group of donors to fundraise against Omar.
August 13, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s New Campaign Hire Is a Clear Sign of Panic
Donald Trump has hired a new senior adviser who previously worked at the top Trump-aligned super PAC.
August 12, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Team Trump’s Desperate New Attack Plan on Harris in Swing States
“Americans might vote for a liberal, but they won’t vote for a lunatic,” the top Trump super PAC strategists said.
August 2, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Elon Musk’s Insidious New Strategy to Help Trump Win
Elon Musk is collecting personal data from people in swing states under the guise of helping them register to vote.
August 1, 2024
Paige Oamek
A Shocking New Super PAC Is Trying to Buy Elections
This might explain why Donald Trump has been cozying up to the crypto industry lately.
July 12, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Biden’s Decision Not to Drop Out Will Cost Him Big Time
Major Democratic donors have reportedly pledged to withhold millions in donations to the largest pro-Biden super PAC unless the president drops out.
November 23, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Long, Long, Long Money Trail
Democrats, Republicans, PACs, Senate candidates, House candidates, right-wingers to left-wingers (one or two): SBF peddled influence with them all.
September 9, 2022
Walter Shapiro
Why Candidates Get More Bang for Their Buck Than Super PACs—Starting Now
A 50-year-old law allows candidates—but not fundraising groups—to get discounted TV ad rates in the 60 days before the election. What does that mean for the home stretch of their campaigns?
May 21, 2022
Jason Linkins
There Are No Super PAC Cops
Let’s stop pretending that rules forbidding coordination between campaigns and dark money groups exist.
July 16, 2021
Jeff Burdick
The Republicans’ Latest Skeezy Campaign Trick: Cash Swaps to Help Each Other
Members of Congress aren’t allowed to spend leadership PAC funds on their own campaigns. But wouldn’t you know it: They’ve found a way.
June 9, 2021
Walter Shapiro
Are Democrats Done Fighting Big Money in Politics?
New York City has one of the most generous campaign finance programs in the country. So why are all the leading Democrats in the mayoral race relying on super PACs?
June 30, 2020
J.C. Pan
Democrats Can’t Quit Their Addiction to Big-Money Donors
The urgency of beating Trump in November has once again set campaign finance reform on the back burner.
October 23, 2018
Nihal Krishan
How Dark Money Groups Keep Their Donors Hidden
A new campaign finance disclosure rule was hailed as a "victory for transparency." But most groups found a way around it.

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