NextGen Climate, a super PAC backed by the billionaire Tom Steyer focused on climate change, plans to begin airing political TV ads in Iowa tomorrow featuring images of Pope Francis.
Continue readingCommon Core advocates dominate early messaging in Iowa
A Washington nonprofit devoted to ginning up support for the Common Core standards has bought the lion's share of early TV ads in Iowa.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: Office account says ‘I voted yes’ when member votes no and more
This week's roundup of deletions archived by Politwoops includes a declaration of a yes vote when the congressman voted nay and more.
Continue readingWhich 2016 hopefuls made the best investments this year?
Some politicians were investing money this year with an eye to 2016. The ROIs of potential presidential contenders.
Continue readingContest for the Senate in charts: Outspent Dems lean on super PAC donors in homestretch
The story of outside money in this year's contest for control of the Senate, told in handy, embeddable charts.
Continue readingDark money still a Republican game
A review of reported spending by dark money outfits finds Republican candidates are getting a bigger boost from anonymous donors.
Continue readingNew Koch brothers PAC the biggest fundraiser of Q3
A new Koch brothers group raised $15 million in the third quarter of campaign 2014, the most of any committee that filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday.
Continue readingCampaign intelligence: Pop-up PACs
This week's Campaign Intelligence finds "pop-up PAC" season starting: Start spending late enough and you won't have to disclose donors until just before the election — or maybe after.
Continue readingCampaign Intelligence: Conservative money plays catch up
A recurring series on candidates, campaigns and elections in which Sunlight's Reporting Group highlights interesting stories we see developing from our data analysis tools.
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.
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