Over the past year, many pundits and media outlets have speculated about the role of money in the 2018 midterm elections. Much of that commentary predicted an avalanche of spending with disastrous effects. But did the rhetoric match the results?Source: Money Doesn’t Buy Elections, “Dark Money” Keeps Falling, and Other Lessons from the 2018 Midterms...
Ben and Jerry share a passion for ice cream. Ben and Jerry also share a passion for progressive political advocacy.Source: My Speech is Good. Your Speech Should be Banned....
As new members of Congress start the business of legislating, many of the freshmen have started to look to advance their careers with the creation of leadership PACs, including liberal rock starsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).Source: Ocasio-Cortez, Romney, Omar among prominent freshmen to launch leadership PACs...
The solicitations piled into voters’ email accounts — sometimes multiple times a day. And they carried alarming messages, often in blaring capital letters.Source: How a little-known Democratic firm cashed in on the wave of midterm money...
The 2020 presidential race has begun. Super PACs and party committees are raising and spending gobs of cash. The threat of foreigners infiltrating U.S. political campaigns looms.Source: Federal Election Commission chairwoman: government shutdown is ‘incredibly wasteful and unproductive’...
It isn't your usual bill, the "For The People Act" introduced Friday by House Democrats. Also known as H.R. 1, symbolically their first legislation, it is a 571-page compendium of existing problems and proposed solutions in four political hot zones: voting, political money, redistricting and ethics.Source: House Democrats Introduce Anti-Corruption Bill As Symbolic First Act...
Much attention has focused on H.R. 1, the comprehensive package of democracy reforms introduced on Thursday by Representative John Sarbanes (D-Md.) on behalf of the new Democratic House majority. The unprecedented legislation is perhaps the most important domestic initiative of the new Congress.Source: How to Fix America’s Broken Political System...
The “Dry Alabama” Facebook page, illustrated with stark images of car wrecks and videos of families ruined by drink, had a blunt message: Alcohol is the devil’s work, and the state should ban it entirely.Source: Democrats Faked Online Push to Outlaw Alcohol in Alabama Race...
On a May night back in 2012, I sat at a conference room table surrounded by mostly men: The federal prosecutor leading the case against my old friend and boss, former senator John Edwards; a number of federal agents I had met with for more than 36 hours in New York City, Boston, and Washington, DSource: John Edwards' sex scandal didn't fix corrupt...
Last year at this time, Republicans feared the “blue wave,” a surge of voter enthusiasm for Democrats in the midterm elections. With the election over, and the fears of Republicans partly realized, the party’s worry has shifted to the “green wave:” $39.67 here, $39.67 there.Source: Republicans Seek to Boost Small Donations, but a Fragmented System Stymies Them...
