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By Tony Carrk- For months, Think Progress has been chronicling the “U.S.” Chamber of Commerce’s $75 million campaign to put its interests over working- and middle-class families. It uses its…
Hedge fund moguls helped bankroll groups' attack ads, sources tell NBC News November 4, 2010: A tightly coordinated effort by outside Republican groups, spearheaded by Karl Rove and fueled by…
November 4, 2010- Remember when Democratic congressman Bob Etheridge went berserk on two kids who were harassing him on the streets of Washington, D.C.? And everyone was wondering who those…
November 3, 2010: The votes are in, and while some close races are still being tallied, there is a clear winner from the 2010 elections: Secret corporate cash. Such unaccounted…
November 3, 2010: Tuesday's election will be remembered not only for the historic losses by the Democratic Party in the House, but also the unprecedented amount of outside spending that…
Exclusive: Business groups poised to turn judges into ‘politicians in robes’ November 2, 2010: Campaign donations to members of Congress from secret donors and foreign investors are grabbing headlines this…
October 31, 2010- The midterm election campaign will end Tuesday, but one of its most marked developments — the emergence of outside groups, often backed by anonymous donations, that can…
October 30, 2010: Shrill political attacks have saturated the airwaves for months, but behind them is the real problem of this demoralizing election: the dark flow of dollars, often secretly…
October 31, 2010- Sometimes, it takes years to see the impact of a Supreme Court decision on American life, and sometimes a ruling lands with an explosion. The Roberts Court's…
October 30, 2010- As ThinkProgress has previously reported, over a million jobs have been lost due to outsourcing since 1994. One of the main organizations promoting outsourcing has been the…
By funding numerous rightwing organisations, the mega-rich Koch brothers have duped millions into supporting big business October 25, 2010: The Tea Party movement is remarkable in two respects. It is…
RAW Story, October 27, 2010- Karl Rove's American Crossroads has drawn a lot of attention for its high-profile fundraising and lavish spending on congressional races. But Rove's group, it turns…
Companies and unions have been able to avoid the transparency called for in the court's landmark ruling. Spending on next week's midterm election has been exorbitant. Chicago Tribune, October 27,…
The CEO of the company that owns Gold's Gym has long given money to conservative causes and now that support may be backfiring. Nearly 2000 people have signed an online…