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MapLight research on the influence of money and politics.
Andrew Perez and Lee Fang
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May 06, 2019
Joe Biden pledged to reject contributions from lobbyists and corporate PACs, but he has quietly taken in more than $30,000 in donations from corporate interests through a political action committee that he created in 2017.
Tim Zelina and Andrew Perez
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May 01, 2019
Two oil and gas companies with extensive interests in Colorado donated $1.7 million to a Republican “dark money” organization last year while it was working to defeat the state’s Democratic candidate for governor, Jared Polis.
Frank Bass
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April 24, 2019
About three dozen of the nation’s largest energy and utility companies pumped almost $60 million into campaign committees, ballot measures, trade associations, and nonprofits during 2017.
Andrew Perez and Alex Kotch
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April 23, 2019
Corporate lobbyists collected almost $1 million for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) during the first quarter of 2019, according to an analysis by MapLight and Sludge.
Ann M. Ravel
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April 19, 2019
Efforts at self-regulation by technology companies fall far short of providing the true transparency necessary to inform voters about who is trying to influence them.
Alec Saslow
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April 17, 2019
A new MapLight analysis of campaign finance records in Missouri found that organizations seeking to influence the 2018 Missouri elections spent more than $15 million on state candidate races and ballot measures.
Andrew Perez and Alex Kotch
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April 12, 2019
A top hospital lobbyist told a room of health care executives this week not to worry about Medicare for All and suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won’t let the idea come up for a vote during the current Congress.