Selected Articles

DNC Half-Measures Condemning Dark Money Won’t Cut It, Says Sanders as He Demands Total Ban - CD 10.04.26 513969
‘Modern-Day Royalty’: 50 Billionaire Families Have Already Pumped Over $430 Million Into Midterms - CD 25.03.26 512324
‘Astonishing Stat’: Billionaires Gave Nearly 20% of Donations in 2024 US Federal Elections - CD 09.03.26 511018
ICE and Israeli Military Supplier Receives Millions in Subsidies from NYC - Dropsite 24.02.26 509549
Sen. Mark Warner, Palantir Critic, Took $37k From the Company’s CEO - Sludge 18.02.26 510096
From crypto companies to defense contractors, new lobbying clients steered $145 million to firms led by Trump insiders in the first year of his return to power. - Sludge 13.0… 510089
Companies ‘Honor’ Trump With Kennedy Center Donations - Sludge 09.02.26 508473
Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed - Guardian 06.02.26 508464
Foreign Interests Are Paying Millions to a Trump-Linked Lobbying Firm - Sludge 05.02.26 508789
Trump Administration’s Efforts to Strip Shareholder Rights Makes the Miserable Citizens United Impacts Even Worse - Public Citizen 21.01.26 506321
Lobbyists and lawmakers mingle over luxury tequila, shrimp and cigars at capital party - Calmatters 21.01.26 507057
16 Years After Citizens United, Critics Say Trump Exemplifies Dangers of Corporate Political Spending - CD 21.01.26 506898
Citizen’s United Paved the Way for Trump’s Corporate Grift - Citizen United 21.01.26 506315
‘Are We Really Living in a Democracy?’ Asks Sanders After Musk Drops $10 Million on US Senate Race - CD 19.01.26 506457
Scoop: Musk shocks with $10 million donation in Ky. Senate race - AXIOS 19.01.26 506455
MAGA--Make America Greedy Again - Bracing Views 09.12.25 501086
You Are Invited to the MAGA Ballroom 2028 - Hussein Hallak 18.11.25 501576
‘Citizens United 2.0’: GOP Pushing a Pair of Supreme Court Cases That Would Further Legalize Bribery - CD 14.10.25 493861
Sugar Daddies - American Prospect 05.09.25 488500
Susan Collins Advanced Trump Tax Bill After Receiving $2 Million from Private Equity Billionaire - CD 04.09.25 487269
DNC Chair Moves to Confront Corporate and Dark Money in 2028 Primaries - Sludge 14.08.25 484540
Analysis of Lobbying in 2024 Shows Clear Target: A Tax Code Forever Favorable to Corporations - CD 10.04.25 464619
Why are MAGA followers claiming Google is exposing crimes by the DC elite? - Al Jazeera 20.02.25 458217
Tweet: This is my all time favourite political commentary. By the late, great George Carlin - @JamesMelville 09.08.24 435494
Sunrise Movement Going All Out to Back Squad Against Torrent of GOP Cash - CD 09.02.24 398001
'The American People Deserve Answers': Subpoenas Issued for Crow and Leo - CD 30.11.23 388205
Rail Industry Has Spent $654 Million on Federal Lobbying Over Past 20 Years: Analysis - CD 03.03.23 342871
11 New GOP Picks for House Financial Oversight Panel Took Over $6.1 Million From Wall Street - CD 12.01.23 328117
“Attack Philanthropy”: Right-Wing Billionaire Fueled Climate Denial & Conservative Judges - DN! 08.09.22 304543
Telecom Lobbyists Spending Big Money to Keep Gigi Sohn Off FCC - CD 28.04.22 285645
This ‘out there’ billionaire donor is encouraging the GOP’s worst extremes: conservative - AlterNet 19.03.22 283327
'Keep Pushing': Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading - CD 07.02.22 272954
GOP Billionaire to Hold Fundraiser for 'Great American' Joe Manchin - CD 10.11.21 264175
'Democracy for Sale': Analysis Ties Corporate Consolidation to Increased Lobbying - Common Dreams 25.08.21 253815
How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block climate action - Guardian 19.07.21 250870
Targeting Dark Money Attacking Democracy, Watchdog Files FEC Complaint Against 23 Super PACs - CD 15.07.21 254992
Supreme Court Ruling Delivers 'Dark, Dark Day for Democracy' - CD 01.07.21 249321
Wall Street Gave More Money During 2020 Election Than Any Campaign Season in US History - CD 16.04.21 243701
A Texas city had a bold new climate plan until a gas company got involved - Guardian 01.03.21 237635
Meet the Real Dark Money GOP Donors Who Funded Those Who Voted to Overturn the Election - CD 28.01.21 233932
Bankrolling the Disenfranchisers - Public Citizen 13.01.21 232147
'We Have the Receipts': Analysis Details $170 Million in Corporate Gifts to GOP Lawmakers Who Voted to Overturn Biden Win - CD 13.01.21 232109
'If Wall Street Really Believed in Defending Our Democracy,' Says Sanders, It Would End Political Donations... Forever - CD 12.01.21 232073
“Copy, Paste, Legislate” Series Win 2020 Goldsmith Award - Public Integrity 23.03.20 204711
You'll Never Guess How Big Banks Want the Fed to Handle the Coronavirus: More Wall Street Deregulation- CD 03.03.20 200772
5 Ways Donald Trump Has Not Drained the Swamp - Common Dreams 12.02.20 199390
'As Corrupt as It Gets': Oil Lobbyist Turned Interior Chief Proposes Giving 'Coveted' Contract to Ex-Client - CD 08.11.19 201077
Making Finance Pay - ZNet 01.05.18 90580
Jeffrey Sachs: Mick Mulvaney Delivers the Chilling Truth - Common Dreams 27.04.18 90581
Robert Reich Takes American CEOs to Task for Their 'Shameful Silence' on Trump - AlterNet 23.04.18 90582
Words matter, but lobbying dollars get the job done - Oxfam America 12.04.18 90583
Video: Empire Files: How Lobbyists Weaponized Transparency - Tele Sur 28.02.18 90584
Koch Document Reveals Laundry List of Policy Victories Extracted from the Trump Administration - Common Dreams 26.02.18 90585
GOP Law Enforcement Chiefs Invited Donors to Help Set Policy Via Secret Bulletin Board - Intercept 12.02.18 90586
Woman Dragged Out of West Virginia House Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions to Members - Common Dreams 11.02.18 90587
American Democracy Sold To The Highest Bidder - Social Europe 30.01.18 90588
Amazon Short-List Proves Something "Deeply Wrong" With America's Race-to-the-Bottom Economy: Ellison - Common Dreams 18.01.18 90589
Political donations by lobbyists rising - Open Secrets 11.01.18 90590
Ralph Nader: How big corporations game our democracy into their plutocracy - Litchfield County Times 03.01.18 90591
Cities Offer Amazon Dangerous Incentives - Real News 29.11.17 90592
Jeffrey D Sachs: Big Data and Big Money Have Subverted Our Democracy - Common Dreams 03.11.17 90593
Why Does Amazon Get Corporate Welfare? - Common Dreams 01.11.17 90594
The eight most outrageous things cities did to lure Amazon for HQ2 - Verge 19.10.17 90596
After Massive Giveaways to Industry, Mining Executives Will Spend Big at Trump’s D.C. Hotel - The Intercept 14.09.17 90597
Warnings of 'Race to the Bottom' as Amazon Holds Nationwide Tax Break Contest - Common Dreams 12.09.17 90598
As Tech Giants Threaten Democracy, Calls Grow for New Anti-Monopoly Movement - Common Dreams 01.09.17 90599
Jeffrey D Sachs: Lies and the Lying Lobbyists Who Tell Them - Common Dreams 20.07.17 90600
'Extraordinary': Trump Administration Seeks to Shut Down Lobbyist Ethics Probe - Common Dreams 22.05.17 90601
How corporate dark money is taking power on both sides of the Atlantic - Guardian 02.02.17 200425
How Can the U.S. Shrink the Influence of Money in Politics? - The Atlantic 16.03.16 90602
Trump makes America Goldman’s Again! #MAGA – The Intercept 09.12.16 90603
D.C hivemind mulls how Clinton can pass huge corporate tax cut – The Intercept 15.10.16 90604
Memo shows what major donors like Goldman Sachs want from Democratic Party – The Intercept 11.10.16 90605
Our corporate constitution - Occupy 12/15 90607
Seeking War to the End of the World 7/15 90608
A New Study Shows How Donors Distort Democracy - Demos 02/15 90609
VIDEO: Mike Lofgren & Bill Moyers - The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight (02.14) 90610
NASCAR Congress - Common Dreams 3/13 90611
Citizens United Decision Profoundly Affects Political Landscape - Center for Responsive Politics 5/11 90612
Newt Gingrich faces questions about consulting job and support for biofuels - iwatch 4/11 90613
On Anniversary of Citizens United Ruling, Common Cause Calls on Justice Dept. to Investigate Scalia and Thomas over Conflicts of Interest - Democracy Now! 1/11 90614
The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy -- How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections - AlterNet 10/10 90616
‘Unethical’ Nixon Campaign Vet Fred Malek Still Dodging Campaign Finance Laws - ThinkProgress 10/10 90617
The Real Story On Campaign Money - National Journal 10/10 90618
Corporate Hijacking of Our Elections Is Well Under Way, with Foreign Companies Chipping in to Destroy Our Democracy - AlterNet 10/10 90619
The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America - Robert Reich 10/10 90620
Top Republicans meet with energy, telecom lobbyists - Politico 9/10 90621
When Corporations Own Congress - Counterpunch 9/10 90622
Wall Street's Connected Lobbyists - Jim Hightower 8/10 90623
US banks send in the lobbyists to blunt reform - Independent 6/10 90624
On Financial Reform Bill, 52% of Lobbyists Worked in Government - CPI 6/10 90625
Top 10 Lobby Firms Take Financial Reform to the Bank - CPI 6/10 90627
Lobbyists flock to Wall St. bill - Politico 6/10 90628
Who Bankrolls Congress? The Big Money Behind Top Lawmakers - CPI 6/10 90629
Wall Street's War - Rolling Stone 5/10 90630
Banking lobbyists outnumber lawmakers five to one - US Toda 5/10 90631
K Street cashes in on bill - Politico 5/10 90632
Five Lobbyists for Each Member of Congress on Financial Reforms - CPI 5/10 90633
Corporations Aren't Persons - Progressive 4/10 90634
We're Living in a Kleptocracy: Fears of Socialism and Fascism Are a Distraction from the Naked Theft of Trillions - William Astore 4/10 90635