The Results of the Crypto Bro Election
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy for the LPE Blog: In the 2022 and 2024 American elections, the crypto industry spent big. With all of the chaos in Trump 2.0, from ICE raids to exploding ...
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New Jersey Gubernatorial Election is Sixth Most Expensive in US History
ELEC release: New Jersey gubernatorial candidates and the Independent Expenditure-Only Filers (IEFs) who promoted them shredded multiple records by spending more than $259 million on this ...
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
NYT: Since President Trump was elected a second time, he and his allies have raised nearly $2 billion for his favored political causes and passion projects. That total, which was confirmed ...
Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle
NYT: The political operation founded by Charles and David Koch raised and spent well over half a billion dollars during the 2024 election cycle, showing that the family unit remains a ...
Nearly $900 Million Flowed in Secret to Help Harris and Trump in 2024
NYT: The main political nonprofit groups tied to the 2024 presidential candidates raised almost $900 million last year from donors whose identities remain secret, revealing the ...
Scoop: Musk diving into 2026 midterms for the GOP
Axios reports that after a dinner with Vice President J.D. Vance, Elon Musk is planning to support the GOP strategy for the 2026 midterm. No more talk of starting a third party or ...
Bob Bauer on “Campaign Finance in a Polarized Republic”
Bob Bauer offers a grounded and pragmatic new take on how to think about the pros/cons of further deregulating campaign finance to permit more efficient party coordination. I am ...
Transcript of NRSC Case Argued Today at SCOTUS Now Available; The Question Appears to Be Not If, But How, The Court Rules Against the Party Coordinated Spending Limit
Here is the transcript. Back when Citizens United was argued a second time, and Elena Kagan was the Solicitor General, she essentially asked the Supreme Court to lose in the least ...
Brad Raffensperger sues to win more campaign spending power in Georgia governor race
AP News reports Brad Raffensperger has filed a suit challenging the ways that state campaign finance laws enhance party spending by permitting coordinated spending forbidden (at least ...
Supreme Court could topple yet another campaign finance limit
The Supreme Court could eliminate one of the remaining checks on money in politics in a case that worries advocates fighting the influence of deep-pocketed donors. In a challenge involving ...
Case that lets billionaires spend big on elections never reached Supreme Court
One Person Who Should Not Be in Charge of Elections, N.Y. Times, Aug. 22, 2025 (online version August 20, 2025) Trump Started a Redistricting War. Only Congress Can Stop It, MSNBC Opinion, August ...
2025 CPA-Zicklin Index Finds Strong Corporate Support for Robust Political Disclosure and Accountability
See this post at the Harvard Law School Center for Corporate Governance: The number of leading U.S. companies with the most robust policies for transparency and accountability ...
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