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Corporate Money in Elections

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Recent Reports

  • Super Connected: Outside Groups’ Devotion to Individual Candidates Undercuts Assumption in Citizens United That Outside Spending Would Be Independent, January 14, 2015
  • An Executive Order on Contractor Political Spending Disclosure Would Reach 70 Percent of Top Companies (PDF), April 27, 2015
  • Undefeated: “People’s Pledge” Maintains Near Perfect Record at Deterring Unregulated Outside Spending, December 19, 2014
  • The Dark Side of Citizens United: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Is the Biggest Spender of Undisclosed Money in 28 of 35 Congressional Contests in 2014, October 29, 2014
  • A Rising Tide: Citizens United-Enabled Election Spending Floods State and Local Elections, July 24, 2014
  • Beware of a Naive Perspective: A Prebuttal to Possible U.S. Supreme Court Rulings in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, January 7, 2014

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