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Lobbyist Reports $25,000 Donation Honoring Susan Collins To Unidentified Group
Pharma lobbyist Raissa Downs reported giving $25,000 to “Stronger America PAC,” the name shared by the dark money group that is the largest donor to the super PAC backing Collins.
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AIPAC-Linked Super PAC Spends $12.7 Million Against El-Sayed
The pro-Rogers group reportedly began receiving AIPAC contributions after the pre-election donor disclosure cutoff, keeping the funding out of public filings until after Election Day.
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House Dems’ Super PAC Attacks Republicans Over Data Center Money While Taking Millions From the Industry
The group’s campaign strategy casts data center developers as a “reviled villain,” even as their executives and investors help finance its bid for a Democratic House majority.
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Musk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot Push
People Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.
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The Democratic Fundraiser Opening Doors for Big Tech
Helen Milby raises money for the New Democrats, runs a nonprofit connecting tech executives with Congress, and advises the industry-backed Chamber of Progress as it seeks to shape the party’s AI agenda.
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Tech Billionaire John Doerr Funnels Millions to Democrats Through New 'Dark Money' Group
The billionaire chair of Kleiner Perkins, who co-founded the industry lobby TechNet, set up a nonprofit, Incaendo, that gave more than $10 million to Democratic dark money groups last year.
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Prop 4 Would Let California Cities Curb Big Money With Small Donations
The California ballot measure would let cities, counties, and the state match small donations with public funds. Backers led by the League of Women Voters say it’s a counterweight to wealthy donors.
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The DCCC’s Top Bundlers Are Now Lobbying for Flock
As some Democrats move to ban federal use of its license plate cameras, the surveillance company has hired some of the party’s biggest fundraisers.
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Pop-Up Dark Money Group Funnels Millions Into Super PAC Backing Peltola
Peltola pledges to fight dark money, but her campaign did not say whether she would urge the groups backing her to reveal their funding sources.
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Senate’s Top Data Center Investor Backs Environmental Rollbacks to Power the Industry
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse holds millions in data center stocks while helping negotiate a bill that would limit states’ water-quality reviews and restrict court challenges to energy projects.
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The Democratic Party’s Pollsters Are Also Working for AIPAC’s Super PAC
Democrat-aligned firms have been paid more than $7 million by AIPAC's super PAC and its ally DMFI since 2021.
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Pipeline CEO Turned Senator Wants to Limit States’ Power to Block Pipelines
Sen. Alan Armstrong holds tens of millions in stock in Williams Companies, the company he led, plus performance awards that could pay him up to $32.5 million. Williams has publicly backed his bill.
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Rep. McCaul's Wife Trades Stock in a Counter-Drone Contractor Profiting From His Laws
CACI stock has risen more than 70% since Linda McCaul's first purchase, as the contractor wins counter-drone contracts, including a spot on a $1.5 billion DHS program operating under her husband's 2018 law.
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Black Caucus Groups Take $1.6 Million From Big Tech as Caucus Weighs Data Center Stance
Beyond the money, the groups have hosted executives from Meta, Exelon and Entergy at their conferences, and caucus aides toured a data center with a think tank that has received funding from Google, Meta, and Amazon.
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Trump's CFTC Is Suing States for Kalshi and Polymarket, Backed by Trump Jr.
The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state gambling regulators.