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06/02/2021

The Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute on Money in Politics launch combined organization: OpenSecrets

01/28/2021

"According to campaign finance data from the National Institute on Money in Politics, more than two dozen labor groups have donated a total of $321,500 to the Western Pennsylvania lawmakers since they were elected to Congress..."

While corporate political action committees (PACs) may have disavowed Republican actions, union-affiliated PACs that have backed U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler and U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly are largely keeping quiet.

01/22/2021

"According to records from the National Institute on Money in Politics, Cerner Corporation donated to a wide range of candidates from both parties in the 2020 election."

Cerner PAC stops donating to elected officials who 'incited violence' in Capitol

The company had donated to the 2020 campaigns of a dozen federal legislators who went on to object to the presidential election results.

01/22/2021

"Rosendale didn’t receive contributions from the big businesses now reassessing who to support. As analyst Brendan Glavin of the Campaign Finance Institute confirmed Thursday, non-incumbent candidates, without as much as a committee assignment identifying where their focus will be, really don’t receive contributions from big businesses."

Many of the large corporate donors said to be reconsidering campaign contributions after false allegations of election fraud fomented an assault on Congress, had been contributors to Montana Sen. Steve

01/18/2021

The Republican group has spent $15 million and contributed $50 million to other political entities over the last decade, according to data compiled by the National Institute on Money in Politics. The Democratic group has spent less, but has recently closed the gap.

By supporting efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election, most of the nation's Republican state attorneys general may have undermined their offices' long-held special status in federal courts.

01/15/2021

Check out CRP's Krumholz PBS interview last night on corporate reaction to recent events.

Since last week's riot at the Capitol, more and more companies are cutting ties with Donald Trump, and dozens of corporations suspended political contributio...

01/14/2021

Michael Malbin quoted by CNN: "The fact that major organizations are saying that they are disgusted matters," he said. "This is a public statement about what they believe is right and wrong."

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) -- Some of the country's largest firms are scrambling to distance themselves from last week's insurrection at the US Capitol by freezing or reassessing their political donations -- sending tremors through a political system that has relied for decades on the pre

01/14/2021

Facing South compiled a sobering index: "Among the 16 senators in all who were part of the effort to overturn the presidential election, rank of lawyers and lobbyists among the top industry contributors to their campaigns, according to the latest data from FollowTheMoney.org: 1
https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/01/institute-index-whos-funding-senates-sedition-caucus

The legal, real estate, investment, and oil and gas industries are among those that have contributed the most to the U.S. senators who were part of the effort to overturn the outcome of the presidential election. Among the companies that back spending groups which in turn have supported the Senate's...

01/06/2021

Dem. Jon Ossoff has raised $138.5 million so far in his bid to oust incumbent Sen. David Perdue (R), who has raised $87 million. See the donors to each here: https://bit.ly/3nk9S6r

(Final figures will be available 1/31 when the last reports are filed)

12/30/2020

Our big end-of-year fundraising deadline is TOMORROW.

Will you pitch in right away to help bring transparency to money in politics in 2021?

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