The ex-president told political advisers Thursday that former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will run a new super PAC.Source: Trump shares plans for new super PAC in Mar-a-Lago meeting...
But do such restrictions work as intended? To find out, we undertook the largest examination to date of survey data on attitudes toward money in politics, analyzing nearly 60,000 individual responses to over 50 surveys conducted between 1987 and 2017.Source: Reformers say HR 1 will fortify our democracy. Science shows it won’t...
Republican legislators around the country are moving aggressively to strip governors and other officials of their power to change election rules -- after states made it easier to vote last year during the coronavirus pandemic and turnout surged to record levels.Source: Republican legislators around the country seek to strip governors and officials of emergency election powers...
On the cold, windy night of March 20, 1854, 36-year-old lawyer Alvan Bovay rounded up dozens of his neighbors in Ripon, Wisconsin, and gathered them in a schoolhouse for a meeting that would change the course of American history. It was the group’s second gathering of the month.Source: Is It Time for the Republican Party to Split Apart?...
TikTok removed nearly 350,000 videos in the US for violating rules on election misinformation, disinformation or manipulated media in the second half year, the short-form video app app said on Wednesday in a transparency report.Source: TikTok removed nearly 350,000 videos related to election misinformation...
Southwest Phoenix voters got the first deceitful political mailer from Americans for Progress nearly two weeks ago, and they just keep coming.Source: 'Dark money' is still trying to influence Phoenix elections despite new law. Here's how...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in neighboring Syria in early 2018, Facebook’s top executives faced a political dilemma.Source: Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to...
On Feb. 24, House Democrats will hold a hearing on “traditional media’s role in promoting disinformation and extremism.Source: House Dems' Misguided Effort to Muzzle Conservative Media...
House Democrats seeking to pressure platforms to stifle conservative media are engaging in a "rank abuse of power," Institute for Free Speech founder Bradley Smith said Wednesday. "We don't trust the U.S.Source: Bradley Smith: Targeting Conservative Media a 'Rank Abuse of Power'...
On behalf of the Institute for Free Speech,[1] I write to express serious concerns about the devastating effect H.R. 1 would have on Americans’ freedom of speech and assembly rights. Labeling this bill the “For the People Act” is Orwellian. In reality, H.R.Source: Letter to U.S. House Administration Committee on H.R. 1’s Harms to Speech and Assembly Rights...
