My latest project with the Center for Responsive Politics on the secret money networks spending about Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Wellspring’s dark money crucial to judicial group, helps others in Trump orbit
I contributed research to a report from the Center for Responsive Politics on President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, and her family’s extensive history of political contributions and nonprofit activity. Betsy DeVos and her big-giving relatives: Family qualifies as GOP royalty
The Wesleyan Media Project’s final political ad report before Election Day was released this week.
I had the opportunity to discuss money in politics and the 2016 election on 970 WFLA’s Reality Check with Ryan Gorman. Listen below or access the full story here. https://www.iheart.com/video/reality-check-with-ryan-gorman-money-27229583/?%20width=
The IRS has broken new ground in nonprofit data transparency Last week, the IRS released more than one million electronically-filed tax forms in bulk, open, machine-readable form. There is still, however, work to be done. Read more about what this means and how the Center for Responsive Politics in building on this concept to expand access … More IRS releasing electronically-filed nonprofit tax data
A new report released by the Wesleyan Media Project in partnership with the Center for Responsive Politics hows that 2016 presidential advertising is more than twice what it was at the same point in 2012. Advertising Volume Up 122% Over 2012 Levels; Spending in Presidential Race Over $400 million The Center for Responsive Politics has a … More New Wesleyan Media Project Report with the Center for Responsive Politics
At the Center for Responsive Politics, we officially launched our newly redesigned Dark Money section, tracking the activities of politically active nonprofits that don’t disclose their wealthy corporate and individual donors to the voters they seek to influence. This is the first phase of our Knight News Challenge project, Inside the 990 Treasure Trove, aimed at … More Bringing dark money out of the shadows
Libby Watson’s new blog post for the Sunlight Foundation follows her account of attempting to discover who’s behind dark money ads as a part of a fascinating larger investigation into Protect America’s Consumers, and also includes a blurb about my own attempt to find more about ads being run by a super PAC on Fox Business Network … More What happens when you try to discover who’s behind dark money ads
My recent collaboration at the Center for Responsive Politics is about a new organization claiming to be “dedicated to promoting accountability, ethics, and transparency” that gets 100% of its funds from a group that exists mainly as a “dark money” vehicle for donors to elude transparency. Excerpt from New nonprofit tied to stealthy circle of dark money groups: Its … More New nonprofit tied to stealthy circle of dark money groups
Andrew was kind enough to include a quote from me in this piece on the blurry lines between campaign and organization in Trump’s FEC disclosures. Election 2016: Donald Trump Campaign Discloses Only Small Payments To Social Media Guru
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