Indicted Russian Company Uses Trump’s Supreme Court Pick as Get Out of Jail...
A Russian company indicted earlier this year as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into foreign interference in our elections is using a decision written by none other than Donald...
View ArticleThe News for July 18, 2018 – Indicted Russian firm uses SCOTUS nominee in...
A Russian company indicted as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation used a decision written by none other than Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to try to dismiss...
View ArticleThe News for July 19, 2018 – 200 vigils Confront Corruption, Demand Democracy...
Last night, thousands of Americans held nearly 200 vigils all around the country to ‘Confront Corruption, Demand Democracy’ in the wake of Trump’s Putin meeting and the new indictments in the Mueller...
View ArticleThe News for July 25, 2018 – Cohen’s secret tape, Montanans take on dark money
Yesterday, President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen released the secret tape recordings of a conversation with then-candidate Trump that appear to show he was aware of hush money payments...
View ArticleThe News for July 26, 2018 – Lawmakers reject corporate PAC money, midterm...
In response to voter concern about the influence of money in politics, candidates continue to reject corporate PAC money. Yesterday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. David Cicilline joined over a dozen...
View ArticleCandidates and Elected Officials Can’t Stop Talking About Money in Politics
As public anger about the power of big money in our politics grows, candidates and elected officials around the country are responding by offering solutions and pledging to fight for reform if they’re...
View ArticleThe News for August 1, 2018 – #FixDemocracyNow week continues, Manafort on trial
On Day 2 of the Fix Democracy Now campaign, candidates and elected leaders continued to seize on the opportunity to show that making democracy work for everyone is a priority. Following yesterday’s...
View ArticleThe News for August 2, 2018 – Corporate donations are new test for Democratic...
This midterm election, rejecting corporate donations is the new test for Democratic candidates, reports the Associated Press: “Long considered a peripheral issue in midterm elections, money in politics...
View ArticleThe News for August 9, 2018 – Fundraise or ‘look for a job’, cities want to...
Republicans spent big to win the Ohio special congressional election this week and only narrowly clinched it. Now with worry setting in for the midterms, what is top of mind? Fundraising, of course....
View ArticleThe News for August 10, 2018 – Swampiest moments for Trump, Dems decry a...
On the campaign trail and during his inaugural address, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to “drain the swamp” of Washington, but CNN reports, “the intervening year and a half of his administration has...
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