Trump-allied PACs target Indiana Republicans blocking redistricting push - POLITICO

Turning Point Action and other MAGA-aligned groups will spend eight figures primarying local GOP figures who have resisted Trump's redistricting plans...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/trump-allied-pacs-target-indiana-republicans-blocking-redistricting-push-00678520 

 

Packed Pacs: how billionaires in the US are bankrolling Republicans at the state level

 According to a research document obtained by the Guardian, the contributions are not limited to federal elections but extend to state-level campaigns and aim to influence policy at the state level. Priorities include dismantling government, targeting "culture war" issues – particularly abortion – and advancing school privatisation...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/billionaires-funding-republicans

Ro Khanna calls for banning PAC money, overturning Citizens United, & returning power to the people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oci2J9LQE-Q

McCarthy’s political operation spent millions on lawmakers now opposing his speaker dreams - POLITICO

In the 2022 election cycle alone, political groups affiliated with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) spent over $1 million supporting Republican representatives who have now voted against him for speaker, according to a review of federal campaign finance records...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/04/mccarthy-political-action-committee-opposition-00076377

IRS Looks Other Way as Churches Endorse Political Candidates — ProPublica

The Johnson Amendment does not prohibit churches from inviting political speakers or discussing positions that may seem partisan nor does it restrict voters from making faith-based decisions on who should represent them. But because donations to churches are tax-deductible and because churches don't have to file financial disclosures with the IRS, without such a rule donors seeking to influence elections could go undetected, said Andrew Seidel, vice president of strategic communications for the advocacy group Americans United for Separation of Church and State. 

 "If you pair the ability to wade into partisan politics with a total absence of financial oversight and transparency, you're essentially creating super PACs that are black holes," Seidel said.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/30/johnson-amendment-elections-irs

Corporate PAC bill: Two Democrats are introducing a bill to ban corporate PACs - Vox

More Democrats are ditching corporate PACs. A new bill would make that mandatory. https://www.vox.com/2019/11/15/20965310/house-democrats-bill-to-ban-corporate-pacs

Shedding Some Light on Dark Money Political Donors - ProPublica

Political nonprofits don't have to disclose the names of their donors. But thanks to a good-government group, you can now find out about nearly $763 million in donations to these "dark money" organizations. ....
https://www.propublica.org/nerds/shedding-some-light-on-dark-money-political-donors

Super PACs take brash new steps to hide their donors -- POLITICO

Outside groups are using loopholes and sometimes just ignoring the law to keep voters in the dark before key elections.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/17/super-pacs-hidden-donors-disclosures-741795

‘Scam PACs’ rake in millions under guise of charity - POLITICO

A POLITICO investigation finds operators under scrutiny for suspicious charity practices moving into politics, where election regulators have little power over them. ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/04/scam-pacs-political-action-committees-charity-investigation-568491

The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How Get Out of It I Robe...

Robert Reich looks the rise of Big Money in politics, the decline of our democracy, and Trump's election.
https://youtu.be/gSlHVZpNxMM

Religion News Service: House Republicans’ proposed tax reform will lead to church regulation

Permitting tax-exempt churches to engage in partisan politicking would throw untold millions — even billions is no exaggeration — of dark money into U.S. elections. ....
http://religionnews.com/2017/11/28/house-republicans-proposed-tax-reform-will-lead-to-church-regulation/

Pro-Trump super PACs have already spent $1 million on Election 2020

President Donald Trump won't face re-election for another three-and-a-half years.

No matter. A pair of super PACs have together already burned through $1 million to boost Trump's 2020 bid, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of federal campaign spending records. ...
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/05/05/20832/pro-trump-super-pacs-have-already-spent-1-million-election-2020

The GOP effort to crush Elizabeth Warren ahead of 2020 has begun: Conservative PAC looks to derail potential presidential bid -- Salon:

When Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was silenced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in February, it prompted CBS to label her as "the de-facto leader of the Trump resistance." Now it appears that many conservatives view her the same way — and are preparing to destroy any possible 2020 presidential bid in advance....
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/17/the-gop-effort-to-crush-elizabeth-warren-ahead-of-2020-has-begun-conservative-pac-looks-to-derail-potential-presidential-bid/

Meet the true source of those viral Donald Trump TV ads

Twitter is abuzz over a pro-President Donald Trump television advertisement that urges viewers to call a toll-free number and “pledge your support to defend Donald Trump.”

 “We need every Trump supporter to pick up the phone now!” the ad’s fast-talking narrator says as he also slams “liberals in the Democratic Party” and the “crooked media” for attacking the newly inaugurated president.

 The narrator continues: “They think they are going to destroy Trump’s presidency, but they are wrong! … Make your voice heard and help drain the swamp!”...
https://www.publicintegrity.org/node/20642

Reclusive mega-donor fueling Donald Trump's White House hopes

In March, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was vehement: Super PACs are a “disaster” and “very corrupt.”

With his opponent, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, gazing expressionlessly at him from the next podium during a Republican primary debate, Trump added, “Ted has super PACs, and you have to look at the people that are giving to those super PACs, number one. It's very important to do that.” 

“There is total control of the candidates,” Trump continued. “I know it better than anybody that probably ever lived.”

If he’s right, New York investor Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, the very same mega-donors who propped up Cruz’s bid, are due for some scrutiny....
https://www.publicintegrity.org/node/20307

Trump would fund anti-Cruz, Kasich super-PACs

Donald Trump plans to create and fund super-PACs specifically aimed at ending the political careers of Ted Cruz and John Kasich should either run for office again,after both snubbed the Republican nomineeduring his party's convention this week, a person familiar with Trump’s thinking told Bloomberg Politics on Friday.

The plan would involve Trump investing millions of his own money —perhaps $20 million or more — in one or two outside groups about six months before their respective election days if Texas Senator Cruz or Ohio Governor Kasich stand for office again. The person said Trump is willing to set up two separate super-PACs one for Cruz and one for Kasich and put millions into each....
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/23/trump-fund-anti-cruz-kasich-super-pacs/87488858/