The toxic influence of ‘dark money’ on Congress and government
May 8, 2023
President Biden wanted to put a consumer activist onto the the Federal Communications Commission. A smear funded by dark money stoped it cold.
Trump donors received millions back in federal loans
July 7, 2020
Need a loan in this pandemic? It helps to be a big bucks donor to Donald Trump. It helps a lot.
Sanders now has his own political machine
February 24, 2020
In 2016, he had to fight the combined political machines of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. Now, he’s older, wiser and has his own machine.
Charitable contributions? Not yet
September 16, 2017
President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has contributed leftover funds to renovations at the White House and the vice president’s residence. But the committee has yet
Trump gets pissy over donation questions
June 1, 2016
Donald Trump’s heated war with the media reached new heights as he turned the brag-worthy feat of raising $5.6 million for veterans’ charities into a
Hillary Clinton raises $45 million from donors
July 2, 2015
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign said Wednesday it has raised $45 million since its launch in mid-April, with the vast majority of its donors having
Republicans return donations from racist
June 23, 2015
Republican presidential candidates, GOP lawmakers and the lone black Republican in the House are returning donations from the leader of a white supremacist group cited
Only small level of support for help on Ebola crisis
October 16, 2014
Individual Americans, rich or not, donated generously in response to many recent international disasters, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and last year’s Typhoon Haiyan