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Continue readingFive new super PACs appear linked to GOP Senate leadership
Five new super PACs were registered simultaneously on Monday by an Austin law firm. All list one treasurer.
Continue readingTop outside spenders in 2014 primaries: Winners, losers and some long-term investors
The biggest primary election spenders threw millions of dollars at opponents who went on to win.
Continue readingProminent Democratic advisers join big GOP funder in upping pressure on Argentina
A GOP donor is underwriting some top Democratic foreign policy advisors in an effort to get his money back.
Continue readingKoch vets’ group picking up where Freedom Partners left off
Freedom Partners, a political nonprofit affiliated with Charles and David Koch, is transferring TV air time to a veterans' group also associated with the conservative activists.
Continue readingFCC docs shed light on Phoenix dark money group
FCC documents identify the president and treasurer of "Save Our Future Now" a dark money group that's spent more than $500,000 airing TV ads against candidates running for an obscure Arizona state office.
Continue readingNow it’s easier to account for how the Senate spends your money
We've extracted three years of Senate disbursement itemizations from the original spending reports to make analysis of the public's money easier.
Continue readingGOP commissioners quash FEC dark money probe
Republicans on the Federal Election Commission voted to block investigations into two more major political nonprofits that the commission's own staff lawyers argued broke election law in 2010, according to recently released documents.
Continue readingPhilly Ad Sleuthing: Republicans are gamers; Democrats like gossip
An analysis of political ad buys at one Philadelphia station shows just how much voters are bombarded by political messages -- and how much office seekers and interest groups spend to influence them.
Continue readingTop super PAC donors lean left
There are no Republicans among the top three individual donors to super PACs this political cycle. That's a huge turnaround from 2012, when the top three spots all went to GOP megadonors.
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