Historically, the lack of transparency in election spending is unprecedented amid massive dark money explosion
Democracy, elections, and voting at DC
As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission judgment in 2010, individuals—and big corporations—received a carte blanche to make unlimited anonymous financial donations to “nondisclosing” organizations, increasingly nonprofit groups whose primary mission is defined as “social welfare.” This year, the greatest amount of dark money, more than $50 million, has…
Video: Leah McGrath Goodman on the Dark Money Flooding U.S. Elections
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