Tag: dark money

The donors who help shape this country deserve as much scrutiny and publicity as the politicians they support. After all, this country belongs to us.

The finding comes a month after Senate Republicans tanked a bill that would have required dark money groups to disclose their donors and funding sources.

Conservatives are hoping right-wing courts will intervene to deny debt relief to tens of millions of borrowers.

The donor is Barre Seid, who donated all of his shares in his electronics company, Tripp Lite, to the nonprofit group run by Leonard Leo, who helped select former President Trump’s conservative Supreme Court nominees.

In an unequal society, a society dominated by concentrated wealth, democracy will always be “damnably difficult.”

"Billionaires shouldn't get to use their enormous wealth to pick and choose who they want in office."

"The anti-choice movement does not only have a lot of money, they also have a plan and the determination."

"The vast scope of this illegal concealment should prompt swift investigation and a firm crackdown by the FEC."

Erin Chlopak of the Campaign Legal Center said that this “is yet another example of the agency’s dysfunction and its disregard for the campaign finance laws it was designed to oversee.”

“My experience around politics is that when you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows.”