corporate corruption The DoJ allowed an oil company to hide $10 million in political donations as part of its bankruptcy filings Thom Dunn
billionaires have money we have people Amazon spent a fortune to block a socialist candidate's re-election to Seattle city council; she won anyway Cory Doctorow
envision healthcare Sleuths discover the source of $28m in dark money lobbying in favor of emergency room "surprise bills": private equity firms that own doctors' practices Cory Doctorow
forensic accounting A loophole in nonprofit law means that corporate lobbying is at least double the official figure Cory Doctorow
american conservative union Grifty conservative PACs raised millions pushing racist Obama conspiracies to elderly, low-income supporters, then kept almost all of it Cory Doctorow
small dollars Presidential fundraising scorecard: who's raising the most and who is most beholden to the ultra-wealthy and corporations? Cory Doctorow
mspac Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans Cory Doctorow
bribestop An end-run around Citizens United: passing state laws that ban rewarding campaign donors with political favors Cory Doctorow
apic Offshore illegal GOP campaign megadonors receive record FEC fines after The Intercept reveals their crimes Cory Doctorow
antimajoritarianism denied The longest-serving Congressman in US history proposes a four fixes for American democracy Cory Doctorow
information attacks Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow
hr1 Congressional Democrats' first bill aims to end gerrymandering, increase voter registration and rein in campaign finance Cory Doctorow
0.0001 percent America for sale: 38% of all election funding comes from 0.0001% of Americans (2,210 people account for 25% of the total) Cory Doctorow
#yeson8 The dialysis industry just set a campaign spending record to fight California limits on pricing Cory Doctorow
outdoor industry Patagonia wants the outdoor industry to start a pro-public lands movement as powerful as the NRA Cory Doctorow
beyond quid-pro-quo America, Compromised: Lawrence Lessig explains corruption in words small enough for the Supreme Court to understand Cory Doctorow
#yesonl Anaheim's living wage ballot measure pits big corporate donors against union money Cory Doctorow
oligarchy on the display Supreme Court decision will rip away Dark Money's veil of secrecy Cory Doctorow
anti-majoritarian Our political upheaval wasn't caused by mob rule, but by institutions designed to preserve elite oversight Cory Doctorow
