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(NEW YORK, NY) – Following the nation’s most expensive mid-term election cycle, where political spending hit an unprecedented $3.7 billion high, the national public policy organization Demos has released a new report on the federal election spending of big box retail companies.
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On November 10, 2014, the Brennan Center for Justice released a new report, Outside Spending and Dark Money in Toss-Up Senate Races: Post-election Update, which describes the rise in spending by outside groups—many of which do not publicly disclose all of their funds’ sources—in eleven competitive
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Seth Endo
No matter who wins each of the hundreds of elections today, one thing's for sure: a relative handful of large donors and spenders are setting the agenda and terms of debate, while the rest of us are on the sidelines.
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Adam Lioz
Inequality is perpetuated by an engaged, self-interested elite looking out for itself.
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Joseph Hines
We’re entering high campaign season in what’s shaping up to be the most expensive midterm elections in American history.
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Adam Lioz
Demos President Heather McGhee issued the following statement on the Senate's actions this week on the Democracy for All resolution: “Demos applauds the Senate for debating and voting this week on the Democracy for All resolution, which would clarify that the People have the power to curb the
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For the past two days, the Senate has debated a bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution that would add, in main part, the following text: To advance the fundamental principle of political equality for all, and to protect the integrity of the legislative and electoral process, Congress shall
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Seth Endo
“Demos strongly supports the Democracy for All resolution and calls on all senators to vote to send it to the states for ratification as the Twenty Eighth Amendment.
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In a record-breaking demonstration of support, over one million commenters have submitted comments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) calling on the agency to take immediate steps to require publicly traded corporations to disclose their use of corporate resources for political
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(New York, New York) – Almost five years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC granted new rights to business corporations to spend unlimited corporate resources to influence elections, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yet to act to require disclosure of
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