Protect Our Elections
May 5, 2011- Unprecedented political spending. Secret donors. New ways for unions and corporations to spend money on politics. Effects of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission View more…
-By Alan Simpson May 5, 2011- Memo to George Will: I was there. I was proud to testify at the April 12 hearing on Sen. Dick Durbin’s campaign finance bill…
May 5, 2011- Campaign Accountability Watch, a coalition of dozens of smaller liberal groups, has launched a legal challenge to outside spending by GOP-leaning groups like the U.S. Chamber of…
April 29, 2011- Looking to counter Republicans who poured money into the 2010 election, much of it from anonymous donors, Democrats formed their own group today that will do the…
April 29, 2011- Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) on Friday tore into Democrats for launching a new outside group to aid President Barack Obama's re-election efforts in part by raising…
April 29, 2011- It's no secret that corporate political contributions are highly controversial, but a lot of that controversy comes from these donations' very secrecy. As corporations try to keep…
April 21, 2011- A Democratic congressman on Thursday sued the Federal Election Commission in an effort to close a massive disclosure loophole before individuals and corporations have the chance to…
April 26, 2011- Despite their prior criticism, Democratic strategists are following Republicans into the forum of undisclosed political donations, engaging in an arms race of-sorts to drum up more outside-party…
April 26, 2011- Less than a year before the 2012 presidential voting begins, Republican legislatures and governors across the country are rewriting voting laws to make it much harder for…
Absentee ballots limited, primary date moved in new GOP version April 26, 2011- The latest version of a bill requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls would make…
April 26, 2011- So much for détente. After a brief truce of sorts between the White House and business leaders, the top lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce took…
April 26, 2011- Less than a year before the 2012 presidential voting begins, Republican legislatures and governors across the country are rewriting voting laws to make it much harder for…
Kloppenburg filing for special investigator alleges Prosser met privately with Walker on night after election, Nickolaus may have committed felonies Both camps agree to hand counts in parts of 31…
April 21, 2011- After announcing she would request a statewide recount in the Supreme Court election earlier this week, challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg and incumbent Justice David Prosser argued in court…
April 20, 2011- A bill in the Florida House of Representatives to "clean up" voting is the latest sad chapter in the state's handbook of voter suppression, according to the…