News
MapLight research on the influence of money and politics.
Andrew Perez
|
November 06, 2018
Donors opposing a ballot measure to fund more homeless services in San Francisco with a new tax on its wealthiest companies previously bankrolled a successful 2016 initiative to ban tent encampments in the city.
Frank Bass
|
November 05, 2018
Corporations that are pouring campaign cash into the midterm election cycle have accumulated at least $1.7 trillion dollars in debt, according to a MapLight analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission documents.
Amari Cowan
|
November 02, 2018
A California ballot measure that would cap profits for dialysis treatments has emerged as the most expensive opposition campaign in state history, spurring one company to spend almost 1 percent of its total value to defeat the proposition.
Daniel Newman
|
October 30, 2018
MapLight President Daniel G. Newman explains in an opinion piece how reforms to our democracy could restore majority rule.
Alec Saslow
|
A new MapLight graphic explores the existing avenues for foreign actors to influence U.S. politics as well as the ways we can begin to repair our system to restore transparency and accountability to elections.
Amari Cowan
|
October 26, 2018
With less than two weeks until the 2018 election, contributions to California’s 11 ballot measures have surpassed $350 million.
Alec Saslow
|
October 24, 2018
MapLight's new online search tool offers a way for the public to quickly and easily find out which federal candidates have taken campaign money from corporate political action committees, or PACs.