The Sunlight Foundation scored a major scoop this month with a report indicating that “Independent” candidate for Senate Lisa Murkowski signed documents for the “Independent” group Alaskans Standing Together to certify that the group wasn’t working “in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, any candidate.” In other words, Lisa [...]

At both the federal and state level, the Chamber of Commerce seems like a remarkably ideological and partisan organization, overwhelmingly promoting right wing Republicans.

With movies like Speechless and TV shows like The West Wing out there, you might conclude that campaign work is glamorous and glossy. Reality can be a lot different. FEC records show that Cathy Bauman has been compensated just $579 for a month’s work as a canvasser on behalf of the campaign of Senator Michael [...]

“The duties currently imposed by the United States were set in an era during which high rates of duty were intended to protect production of footwear in the United States…. Footwear duties, which are higher on lower price footwear, serve no purpose…” –

Every day that Restore America’s Voice ran its Yahoo ad, only a handful of people bothered to click on it. On two days during the campaign, no one bothered to click on the advertisement at all.

The congressional campaigns of 2010 are the first in modern American history in which political corporations have gained the power to make unlimited independent expenditures in favor or against candidates, with absolutely no requirement that they disclose their donors. The only activity of these groups still publicly documented by the Federal Election Commission is the [...]

Even as it conducts campaign operations for Jim DeMint’s PAC, Newsmax is mailing out a copy of its news magazine with a photograph of Senator DeMint on the cover, proclaiming him to be a “powerhouse”.

Do you remember the days when the populist website MoveOn.org attracted the attention (and conservative derision) of millions of people through its splashy advertisements attracting eyeballs and starting conversations around America? Those days are gone. MoveOn’s latest e-mail appeal: Dear MoveOn member, Let me get straight to the point: Right now there are just 9 [...]

After the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case this spring, limits on how much corporations can spend on independent expenditures in congressional campaigns have been wholly erased. The same corporations that can spend as much as they want on congressional campaigns are also allowed to keep their contributor lists secret. All that the [...]

Claim: The 60 Plus Association describes itself to the public as “a nonpartisan seniors-advocacy group.” Fact: House of Representatives lobbying disclosure forms reveal that lobbyists employed by The 60 Plus Association have lobbied lawmakers on Capitol Hill for on-land and offshore oil drilling, internet gambling deregulation, and reduced gasoline taxes. Fact: Federal Election Commission independent [...]