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It was reported on Tuesday that Ginni Thomas, the wife to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, raised $600,000 in anonymous donations to her fringe political group over the past few years. It's a fund that is raising alarms among ethics hawks wondering if it has to do with the Thomas' work... 
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ORLANDO, Fla. — When state investigators delved into the finances of several entities tied to Florida’s 2020 “ghost” candidate scandal, they unearthed major cash contributions from some of the state’s biggest business interests, including an affiliate of the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
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1,345 corporate and industry group PACs have given $50.5 million directly to the campaigns or leadership PACs of members of the Sedition Caucus since January 6, 2021.
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On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that the Internal Revenue Service has stripped tax exempt status from a dark money organization headed up by Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon.
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Dennis Aftergut and Fred Wertheimer write about a New Yorker feature entitled "The Big Money Behind the Big Lie" which talks about two dangerous threats to American democracy today -- election subversion and dark money.
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The bill comes after her political allies formed a nonprofit under an IRS designation commonly used for dark money political groups.
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'Dark money' groups are funneling millions into the 2020 election, and an IRS rule finalized this week will allow them to keep their donors secret.
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A dark-money group aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is dropping more than half a million dollars on an advertisement shielding Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, an embattled Republican incumbent, from criticism of her response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Secretive "dark money" groups have run free for decades without oversight, but they now face an unprecedented level of scrutiny as the 2020 election nears.
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Dark Money: Its hard to trace, but its present at every level of politics - particularly in swing states like Colorado. In this election year, who exactly is behind that money,...
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Leonard Leo, the right-wing leader of the judicial activist network the Federalist Society, is coming under scrutiny for his "lavish" use of the organization's funds to live the high life, POLITICO reported on Wednesday.
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Thanks in part to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the phrase “dark money” is heard a great deal these days in connection with U.S. politics. Citizens United, with its majority opinion by libertarian then-Justice Anthony Kennedy, define...
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Sam Bankman-Fried was slapped with a campaign finance complaint as he said he made "dark money" contributions to Republicans.
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A donor secretly transferred $1.6bn to a Republican political group. Because of America’s lax laws, the donation was never disclosed in any public record or database
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PAC money dropped for many Republicans who tried to block counting electoral votes, but donors giving small amounts filled the gap.
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The former Kansas secretary of state is running for the Senate and already has complaints filed against him with the FEC and DOJ.
Occupy Hades's insight:
The moral of this story: life comes at you fast when you can't get your lies right.
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More than half of all TV ads in the presidential election and congressional races since the start of the 2020 election cycle were sponsored by “dark money” groups that keep their donors secret.
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GOP super PAC in the Senate race in North Carolina is backed by "dark money." Democrats are using a super PAC that won't disclose donors until after 3/3.
Occupy Hades's insight:
Stories about dark money and dark money groups are more and more common, the closer we get to Election Day.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), like many other Republicans in Congress, has been aggressively bashing HR 1, the sweeping anti-corruption bill that Democrats passed in the House last week. McConnell has called the bill a “radical, half-baked socialist proposal” and a “political power grab” by Democrats, and has made it clear he won’t bring the measure up […]
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