Breaking ranks with party orthodoxy, Donald Trump’s war on the campaign finance system is good news: Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Real estate mogul and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s campaign announced Friday that letters of notice were sent to unauthorized super PACs that claimed to support him. Trump, who frequently boasts that he is funding his own campaign and doesn’t accept big dollar donations from the country’s biggest donors, noted in a press release that the…

On the same day that Donald Trump called on a handful of outside political action committees (PACs) supporting his campaign to return the money they have collected, Hillary Clinton said she won’t accept donations from federally registered lobbyists or PACs for private prison companies. “I am self-funding my campaign and therefore I will not be controlled…