…Heartsill (IA-28) received $500 from KochPAC to his campaign. Rep. Zach Nunn (IA-30) received $1,500 from KochPAC to his campaign. Rep. John Landon (IA-37) received $500 from KochPAC to his…
Trump and Clinton Camps Engaging in Super PAC Coordination Says Watchdog Group
…candidates for the most powerful office in the world apparently feel that the rule of law does not apply to them, perhaps because they assume that the FEC is too…
Voter ID in Wisconsin, a Slow-Motion Train Wreck
…commission created after the Wisconsin GOP dismantled the fully independent Government Accountability Board which helped launch an investigation of Governor Walker and dark money groups known as the John Doe….
Federal Government Continues To Feed Charter School Beast Despite Auditor’s Warning
…expenditures. The auditor’s report doesn’t provide the names of these schools, so we don’t know if they have received federal grant money in the past or are some of the…
Sanders Woos Progressives in Madison, Seeks to End Influence of Money in Politics
…through NonBox, the preferred media outlet of R.J. Johnson Scott Walker’s campaign guru who has been caught up in the John Doe dark money scandal. On the flip side, the…
Exxon and ALEC Running Illegal Lobbying Scheme, Watchdog Groups Charge in IRS Complaint
…501(c)(3) charitable status. In a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, CMD and Common Cause urged the agency to expedite the Whistleblower Office’s open and active investigation into potential civil…
Bayer Makes Deal With GMO Giant Monsanto
…Past Since 1993, CMD has closely tracked the propaganda campaigns funded by Monsanto. In 1995, CMD’s founder John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton published Toxic Sludge is Good for You, which…
Transcript of RAGA Session on ExxonMobil Investigations
…First Amendment doesn’t protect fraud. Well that’s a red we’re not asserting that it does. What the First Amendment does protect is fishing expeditions like we’ve seen through these subpoenas….
The Koch Connection in the Scott Walker John Doe Documents
…John Doe investigation as it relentlessly attacked prosecutors with more than 350 articles. But most importantly, Wisconsin Club for Growth’s R.J. Johnson had used John Connors as the titular head…
Leaked Documents Show Court’s Dismissal of the John Doe Was Based on a False Premise
…the John Doe probe closely. A sampling of the electioneering ads run by groups under investigation in the John Doe probe can be found here. A Clear Political Purpose The…