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Campaign Finance: soup lines and gilded plastic

A feature, not a bug for some. Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission: C171236 04/01/2026 Missourians for a Responsible Budget …Continue reading →

Campaign Finance: Oxymoron

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission: C253723 05/21/2026 Put Missouri First Republican National Committee 310 First Street SE Washington DC …Continue reading →

Campaign Finance: Justice is supposed to be free, Conservative Justice costs serious money

Apparently. Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission: C253632 04/02/2026 Conservative Justice for Missouri PAC Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane …Continue reading →

Campaign Finance: once again, so they get it

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission: C253512 05/27/2026 Stop the Ban American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc 125 Broad St …Continue reading →

Complaint alleges Let’s Go Washington violated campaign finance laws

A campaign finance watchdog has filed a complaint against Let’s Go Washington, alleging the conservative political committee failed to properly disclose political advertising tied...

Outside cash floods U.S House runoffs in Texas

PACs have accounted for 89% of ad spending in Texas’ congressional runoffs as crypto, AI and mystery groups flood the contests.

Compliance Notes - Vol. 7, Issue 7

RECENT LOBBYING, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATES - Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance - Colorado: A federal judge upheld Colorado’s individual campaign contribution l...

Bernie Sanders Slams Campaign Finance Laws As 'Corrupt,' Says Billionaires Can Spend $50 Million While $5 Is Bribery

Sanders criticizes campaign finance, calling it "corrupt" as billionaires spend millions while small donations face bribery laws. Importance Rank: ...

Election finance complaint filed against Chet Hand ahead of May 19 primary

Race for Boone County judge-executive getting hotter

Vermont lawmakers consider suspending new fines for candidates who don’t disclose their finances

Campaign ads are flooding Louisiana, and the money behind them tells a story

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana residents have been seeing more and more political advertisements lately, as candidates for Louisiana's U.S. Senate race have just a couple of weeks left to...

Campaign Spending Commission comments on the passage of Act 11

Gov. Josh Green has signed Senate Bill 2471 into law as Act 11, establishing changes to Hawaiʻi campaign finance laws regarding spending on and contributions to elections and ball...

Democrats tackle outside groups flooding their primaries with campaign cash

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are struggling to come up for air after outside groups flooded their first round of midterm primaries with campaign cash. As the party fights to regain...

Billionaire Democrat Steyer runs nation's most expensive campaign of the year

Billionaire Tom Steyer has spent a record $195M on ads in California’s governor race, sparking debate over money’s role in politics.

Compliance Notes - Vol. 7, Issue 10

RECENT LOBBYING, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATES Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance Hawaii: Hawaii Gov. Josh Green signed Senate Bill 2471, now Act 011, into law on...

Spending by Sullivan County mayoral candidates tops $257K

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Spending in the Sullivan County mayoral race surpassed the $250,000 mark, and that doesn't include spending by two super PACs looking to influence the o...

Letter: Setting record straight on campaign finance

A writer questioned whether I support repeal of the destructive 2010 Citizens United decision, which opened the floodgates to unlimited and dark money corporate campaign influence...

WA campaign finance watchdog to pay $25K over alleged meeting violations

The state’s campaign finance watchdog agency settled a lawsuit for $25,000 over allegations that commissioners on its board “repeatedly and flagrantly” violated the state’s Open Pu...

Washington campaign finance watchdog to pay $25K over alleged meeting violations

The state’s campaign finance watchdog agency settled a lawsuit for $25,000 over allegations that commissioners on its board “repeatedly and flagrantly” violated the state’s Open Pu...

Crypto Money Floods US Politics As PACs Spend $7.2M Across 5 States

With less than six months until US voters pick their next Congress, political action committees backed by crypto are making clear they intend to shape who gets elected — and who do...

Campaign filings show big Senate GOP support for incumbents

The Indiana Senate Republican caucus has dumped nearly $2 million so far this year into helping seven current senators fend off primary challengers, state campaign finance filings...

Salem city races are expensive. Here’s who’s writing the checks.

Nearly one-third of Mayor Julie Hoy’s reelection campaign donations come from real estate or development firms and their political action committees, a Salem Reporter analysis of c...

In Democratic runoff, Reps. Al Green and Christian Menefee clash over influence of big money in politics

The clash embodies the tension for Democrats who rely on large fundraising hauls to remain competitive, even as they denounce the outsized political influence of corporate cash.

Tom Steyer’s $195 million political advertising spend breaks record as the most expensive campaign this year

He's received criticism from former Rep. Katie Porter and others as trying to buy the gubernatorial seat.