AlterNet: Going Undercover at the GOP’s Voter Vigilante Project to Disrupt the Nov. Election
The Republican True the Vote project is a well-funded scheme with training sessions for activists across the country. Will it work? -By Steven Rosenfeld
Addicting Info: RNC Sues To Allow Unlimited Anonymous Donations
-By Nathaniel Downes July 1, 2012- The one remaining stronghold of campaign reform, in light of the Citizens United decision, has been that direct contributions to candidates remains restricted, that…
Huffington Post: Bob Bauer, Obama Campaign’s Top Lawyer, Demands Retraction From Karl Rove
-By Sam Stein June 21, 2012- The Obama campaign's top lawyer fired off a letter to Karl Rove Thursday, demanding a retraction of a "mystifying" comment Rove made and raising…
New York Times: When ALEC Takes Over Your Town
-By Joe Nocera June 18, 2012- The Rhode Island State Legislature finally adjourned its 2012 session around 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning. It had been a brutal last few days.…
Huffington Post: Sheldon Adelson To Lavish $71 Million In Casino Money On GOP Super PACS, Nonprofits
-By Peter H Stone June 16, 2012- Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, whose net worth makes him one of the world's richest men, is on a check-writing spree that will soon…
Huffington Post: Political Consultants, Media Buyers Gorge On Secret Honey Pot
-By Dan Froomkin & Paul Blumenthal June 9, 2012- WASHINGTON -- Secret campaign money is making its big comeback in 2012, playing an important role in a presidential election for…
Addicting Info: Tea Party Patriots: Stupid, Or Corrupt?
-By Don Hamel May 22, 2012- The Tea Party came into this world the same way a baby does; screaming and crying. Mainly they screamed and cried about the deficit,…
Truthout: Uncovering the Other ALECs
-By Sarah Blaskey and Steve Horn May 16, 2012- Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists: Lobbyists who circumvent normal lobbying regulations and procedures to advance the corporate agenda in statehouses nationwide on the…
PoliticusUSA: Abandon Ship: How the Left Sunk the Swiftboating of Barack Obama
-By Sarah Jones May 9, 2012- It turns out that Joel Arends, the Chairman of Swiftboating 2012 style’s “Veterans for a Strong America” and creator of the viral “Obama spiked…
Talking Points Memo: AFP Launches $6.1 Million Multi-State, Anti-Obama Ad Campaign
April 26, 2012- Americans for Prosperity announced its biggest ad buy yet on Thursday: $6.1 million attacking President Obama. The ad will hold the president “accountable,” AFP says in a…