A leaked GOP memo warns Silicon Valley that AI data centers poll worse than nuclear waste — exposing a party caught between the donors who funded the buildout and the constituents paying for it in higher utility bills and degraded infrastructure.
A $70 million AI industry super PAC is reshaping Democratic primaries with the same logic as AIPAC: fund the candidates least likely to regulate you, and make accountability expensive. Greg Casar wants his party to name what's happening before it's too late.
Since 2020, more than two dozen bills to strengthen congressional stock trading rules have died without a vote. The reason is structural, not procedural: the people who would pay the cost of reform are the ones voting on it.
AIPAC has spent $30.6 million to defeat progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan — the most it has ever directed at a single race. The shell PAC infrastructure behind that number is designed to make sure voters never see where the money came from.
The CLARITY Act would curb Trump's crypto self-dealing. The moderate Democrats backing it are also cashing checks from the industry they'd constrain — exposing a donor dependency that makes the party's anti-corruption posture largely ceremonial.
The company suspected in a cyclospora outbreak gave $2.2 million to GOP infrastructure — including $1 million to a Trump-aligned PAC days after the administration delayed the food tracing rule it would have been required to follow. Thousands are now sick.
Two-thirds of Rep. Shri Thanedar's campaign cash came through AIPAC bundlers, according to The Intercept — a financial architecture that makes his $600K crypto loss secondary to the deeper question of whose interests a 67-percent-AIPAC-funded congressman actually represents.
Tech billionaires lost the governor's race but won where it counts — in the down-ballot contests that control California's legislature, its regulatory agencies, and the AI policy agenda that the rest of the country is watching.
Dark money is political spending by groups that hide their donors. Over $2.8 billion flowed through the system in 2024, shaping elections and policy in ways the public cannot see.
Democratic presidential hopefuls are racing to reject AIPAC's brand. Down-ballot, the party's financial relationship with the lobby is intact — and the lobby knows exactly where its leverage actually lives.
A DNC resolution to reject AIPAC funding forces Democratic leaders to choose between a powerful donor network and a base that increasingly views the pro-Israel lobby as toxic to progressive values.
After DOGE eliminated a quarter of the IRS workforce, a convenient 'technical glitch' has made $51 million in political donations to state races disappear from disclosure databases.
Black leaders are calling out Illinois Governor JB Pritzker for spending millions to defeat their chosen candidate, exposing how Democratic billionaires override Black political institutions.
AIPAC is spending $13.7 million through shell Super PACs in Chicago primaries, never mentioning Israel once. It's the first test of whether pro-Israel money can still buy elections after a year of Gaza protests.