The groups backing RFK Jr. are running low on cash - POLITICO

“It’s hard to actually refer to MAHA as a movement when you’re looking at just a small number of donors providing the vast majority of financial support,” said Devin Burghart, president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, a nonprofit watchdog that studies conservative groups…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/24/rfk-maha-lyons-pac-midterms-00889913 

Florida Democrat launches group to fight conservative takeover of school boards - POLITICO

The launch pits the group directly against a well-oiled political machine that has helped dozens of conservative candidates win school board races across the country...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/16/florida-education-pac-launch-00158244

Make-Weight Charges (Allison Gill and Pete Strzok; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast episode #162)

This week, we have updates on many ongoing cases and sagas:

• Steve Bannon's motion to dismiss; 
• the sanctions against Kraken lawyers; 
• James Biden's testimony to the House; 
• Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings, 
• and the Wisconsin Ethics Commission's recommendation of felony charges for several members of Trump’s Save America PAC. 

Also, Alexander Smirnoff is re-arrested and there are calls for an investigation into former US Attorney Scott Brady for providing false or misleading testimony to Congress about Smirnoff’s bogus allegations against Biden.

Plus updates in the Fulton County case.
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-7csuf-1d7b1744

GOP Strategist Found Guilty of Moving Illegal Russian Funds to Trump Campaign

The Russian reportedly sent $100,000 to Benton, who was working for a pro-Trump political action committee in 2016…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-strategist-jesse-benton-found-guilty-of-moving-russian-donations-to-donald-trumps-2016-campaign

They raised millions for Trump. Spent barely any of it on him. Now they’re indicted. - POLITICO

The feds just threw the book at one of the ultimate Trump-era scam PACers...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/10/trump-era-scam-pac-indictment-520610

Five myths about campaign finance - The Washington Post

Jan. 6 didn't end corporate PAC contributions, and sunlight isn't the best disinfectant...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-campaign-finance/2021/02/12/b9dbe3fe-6bfc-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html

GOP prepared to punish corporations that curtailed PAC donations

The message from these Republicans is not subtle: access and influence are for sale, and Corporate America should start writing checks accordingly...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-prepared-punish-corporations-curtailed-pac-donations-n1256369

'Violent Trump' Ad Ties The President To U.S. Hate Explosion | HuffPost

A blistering new political ad attacks President Donald Trump as the stoker in chief of racist violence in America. The ad, by the Really American anti-Trump PAC, underscores national surges in hate crimes against Blacks, Muslims and Jews. And it juxtaposes the worsening situation in America with a mashup of Trump’s disparaging remarks about immigrants and calls to violence against his detractors, including: “Knock the crap out of ’em.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/violent-trump-really-american-attack-ad-hate_n_5f51b503c5b6946f3eaf9d54

Trump Victory PAC Paid Around $400,000 to Trump Hotel Amid Pandemic

The Trump Victory political action committee paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump Hotels amid the coronavirus pandemic, newly released Federal Election Commission filings show. In quarterly filings submitted on July 15, the FEC's deadline for second-quarter filings, Trump Victory recorded disbursements to the Trump Hotel Collection totaling more than $370,000 between the dates of March 12 and April 1.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-victory-pac-paid-around-400000-trump-hotel-amid-pandemic-1518335

‘He’s a monster of our creating’: Republicans Against Trump founder says his PAC is about ‘atonement’ – Raw Story

In a moment of frankness, Republicans Against Trump founder Tim Miller revealed that his efforts to dethrone President Donald Trump are part of a kind of GOP “atonement.” Speaking to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Tuesday, Miller explained that they have over 400 videos from Republicans and former Republicans who’ve left the party saying that they’re voting against Trump. https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/hes-a-monster-of-our-creating-republicans-against-trump-founder-says-his-pac-is-about-atonement/

ABC News: McConnell-linked group funds ads helping N Carolina Democrat

A political committee linked to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says it's funding ads designed to meddle in next month's North Carolina Democratic Senate primary
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/mcconnell-linked-group-funds-ads-helping-carolina-democrat-69128301

How Fundraisers Convinced Conservatives to Donate $10 Million — Then Kept Almost All of It - ProPublica

Beginning in 2012, operatives used a federal PAC to target small-dollar donors, claiming they'd use the money to oppose Barack Obama. But that's not what happened.
https://www.propublica.org/article/conservative-majority-fund-political-fundraising-pac-kelley-rogers

Barr gets waiver on case linked to inquiry into Trump's re-election effort - POLITICO

The waiver could give Barr a window into an investigation that involves a political action committee dedicated to re-electing Trump in 2020.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/barr-trump-inauguration-fund-1287657

Feds Charge PAC Operators With Conspiring to Defraud Conservative Donors - Mother Jones

Federal agents arrested two Arizona brothers on Thursday and charged them with operating deceptive political action committees that raised more than $50 million over the last decade. ...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/feds-charge-pac-operators-with-conspiring-to-defraud-conservative-donors/

This new group is angry about high drug prices — and plan to make 2018 candidates pay attention -- CNBC

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to see prescription drug prices reduced. ....
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/group-will-make-high-drug-prices-issue-in-2018-elections.html

FEC probes discrepancies at former Zinke PAC -- POLITICO

The FEC also asks about incomplete information related to some donors, excess contributions and potentially misclassified spending. ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/21/fec-ryan-zinke-seal-pac-123477?cid=apn

Action Alert! Tell the House to keep churches from becoming Super PACS

The House of Representatives just unveiled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a tax reform bill that includes a repeal of the Johnson Amendment only as it applies to churches. The Johnson Amendment prohibits all nonprofits, including houses of worship, from meddling in partisan politics while receiving taxpayer subsidized benefits as a nonprofit. Since houses of worship are the only nonprofits that aren’t required to submit detailed financial disclosures to the IRS, repealing or weakening the Johnson Amendment would effectively turn churches into Super PACS. We cannot let this happen. Urge your Representative to oppose any version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that undermines the Johnson Amendment....
http://p2a.co/aNbF4YH

Pence Takes Steps to Build War Chest as White House Stumbles -- Bloomberg

While President Donald Trump's White House grapples with the fallout from his firing of the former FBI director, Vice President Mike Pence has taken steps to begin building his own political war chest.

Pence launched Great America Committee, a leadership PAC, a move that will enable him to channel money to congressional Republicans ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-17/pence-takes-steps-to-build-war-chest-as-white-house-stumbles?utm_campaign=pol&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews

Who’s Behind the Billionaire PAC Targeting Elizabeth Warren?

Meet America Rising, an organization that does nothing but "post inappropriate Democratic utterances and act as a clearinghouse for information on Democrats.”...
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/whos-behind-billionaire-pac-targeting-elizabeth-warren

Ted Cruz challenger Beto O’Rourke plans to beat the conservative senator without PAC money

Rep. Beto O'Rourke is madly popular with liberals right now, mostly because he will race against Sen. Ted Cruz for his incumbency in the 2018 elections. The 44-year-old Democrat was in Austin, Texas Friday to speak with former Obama-speechwriter Jon Lovett about his bid to unseat one of the country's least popular politicians. ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/22/ted-cruz-challenger-beto-orourke-plans-to-beat-the-conservative-senator-without-pac-money/