Investigating Power
Spending in support of Democratic candidate Susan Crawford stands at approximately $40.3 million. The Crawford campaign spent roughly $22 million of that total, while the remaining spending has come from independent groups.
Turning Point Action, which campaigned for Donald Trump in Wisconsin in 2024, is deploying its get-out-the-vote machinery to back Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1, 2025.
An in-state network of right-wing political donors, groups, and operatives has teamed up to spend even more for Schimel than Elon Musk has.
It’s been a bad year for advocates of ranked-choice voting reforms.
Elon Musk, Richard Uihlein, and Jeff Yass are among the billionaire Republican megadonors who aimed extensive resources at this year’s state court races.
GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein’s Restoration PAC disclosed raising $51.8 million and dispersing $30.4 million in a Federal Election Commission filing for the third quarter reviewed by the Center for the Media and Democracy.
The Concord Fund’s $1.5 million contribution to the Republican Attorneys General Association in the third quarter made it the top funder of the right-wing group leading opposition to abortion rights and other key aspects of President Biden’s agenda.
Montana is a must-win state for both parties in the 2024 general election for the U.S Senate, and it is shaping up to be the most expensive in U.S. history in terms of the cost per vote.
A recent Arizona primary election sheds light on the entrenched power of the state’s utilities, with critics worried that more state representatives may work at the behest of the utilities instead of focusing on much-needed reforms to accelerate Arizona’s move towards renewable energy.
So far this election cycle, just 11 private equity billionaires have contributed more than double the amount 147 private equity firms pumped into federal elections during the entire 2016 election cycle.