Voters in Montana on Tuesday delivered a major blow to big moneyed interests by overwhelmingly passing a ballot initiative barring corporate cash from political campaigns in the state. With 87% of votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Montana Constitutional Initiative 194 has received support from more than 65% of voters, with just 35% registering opposition.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has called on Democratic leaders to ban super PAC spending from the party’s primaries after AIPAC poured $32 million in the Michigan Senate primary race to defeat pro-Palestine Democrat Abdul El-Sayed — and is now poised to support his Republican opponent. Sanders made the demand in a mock letter, posted on social media on Sunday, addressed to Senate Minority…
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Former public health official Abdul El-Sayed has achieved a dominant win in Michigan’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, winning by a narrow margin over Rep. Haley Stevens in a ground-shaking triumph over the $60 million spent by AIPAC and corporations to oppose him. With over 95 percent of the vote counted, El-Sayed had 48.5 percent of the vote, compared to Stevens’s 47.5…
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Billionaires with ties to Jeffrey Epstein have spent nearly $1.6 billion on influencing U.S. elections since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision unleashed a deluge of such spending on the electoral system, a new report finds, demonstrating the vast power over politics held by the so-called Epstein class. Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund reveals in a new report Thursday that 40…
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Fifteen years after a landmark Supreme Court case turbocharged corporate spending in the political process, a group hopes it may have a way to finally rein in some of the outsized influence of the ultrawealthy. The 2010 ruling on Citizens United v. FEC opened the floodgates of political spending in elections. Every year since then, untraceable financial political contributions…
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