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In the News

April 10, 2021: Is Democrats’ voting rights bill too big and doomed to fail? Even some who support it think so Salon

April 9, 2021: McConnell Has No Trouble With Corporate Speech—as Long as It Takes the Form of Bribery The Nation

April 8, 2021: The Man Who Waited 50 Years for This Moment The Atlantic

April 6, 2021: Jayapal Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Reverse Citizens United, End Corporate Personhood YubaNet.com

March 31, 2021: Republicans keep grip on Legislature despite Democratic spending spree Madison 365

March 30, 2021: How This Voting Rights Bill Could Turn the Next Election Into a Clusterf*ck The Daily Beast

March 29, 2021: Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century The New Yorker

March 25, 2021: Fact check: Breaking down 10 claims about the Democrats’ elections bill CNN

March 25, 2021: Senators spar over For the People Act OpenSecrets.org

March 24, 2021: How Small A Minority Should Be Allowed To Rule? The Daily Poster

March 22, 2021: Democrats Now Dominate Dark Money Spending. They Still Want To End It HuffPost

March 22, 2021: How Congress Can Better Represent the People Brennan Center for Justice

March 21, 2021: Our Taxes Subsidize as Much as 74 Cents of Every Dollar Donated by a Billionaire TruthOut

March 17, 2021: ‘Dark money’ topped $1 billion in 2020, largely boosting Democrats OpenSecrets.org

March 12, 2021: Conservative Groups Launch Misinformation Campaign Against HR 1 Sludge

March 11, 2021: Faces of Small Donor Public Financing 2021 Brennan Center for Justice

March 4, 2021: How Dems Can Turn Filibuster Reform Into the ‘Moderate’ Option New York Magazine

March 3, 2021: Wisconsin GOP’s Misguided Move on Amending the Constitution Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

March 3, 2021: H.R. 1: The Path to Democracy in America The American Prospect

February 28, 2021: The Only Way Democrats Will Get Anything Done Robert Reich via Eurasia Review

February 26, 2021: Big Tech Shouldn’t Be the Arbiter of Our Free Speech Rights TruthOut

February 25, 2021: The For the People Act Is Popular, Pass It Right Away Crooked Media

February 25, 2021: Ranked-choice voting bill has bipartisan support WKOW Madison

February 18, 2021: March vote set for HR 1 as both parties harden democracy reform postures The Fulcrum

February 17, 2021: With Record $14.4B Spent in 2020 Elections, Wyoming Legislators Call For U.S. Constitutional Amendment Oil City News

February 16, 2021: Is giving our drinking water legal personhood the best way to protect it? The Counter

February 12, 2021: How American Corporations Used Courts and the Constitution to Avoid Government Regulation Promarket

February 11, 2021: The Two Faces of Charles Koch Republic Report

February 6, 2021: Money in Politics, One Month Later NYTimes

February 4, 2021: COVID, Campaign Finance, and Unfair Maps Wis. Democracy Campaign

January 28, 2021: Corporate America Should Immediately Cease All Political Spending, Says Reform Coalition Sludge

January 25, 2021: If We Don’t Pass H.R. 1, ‘We Are F*cked as a Nation’ Esquire

January 22, 2021: ‘A big deal’: Democrats reintroduce Constitutional amendment to overturn one of the Supreme Court’s most damaging rulings Raw Story

January 19, 2021: Please Don’t Follow This Money NY Times

January 15, 2021: Cruz and AOC Said They Would Propose a Lobbying Ban. So What Happened? The American Prospect

January 15, 2021: The surest way to end corporate America’s love affair with money in politics CNBC

January 15, 2021: Corporate America Presses Pause on Political Contributions Center for Public Integrity

January 13, 2021: How to Fix American Democracy Brennan Center for Justice

January 12, 2021: Koch Network Says It Will Evaluate Future Support for Candidates Based on Actions Leading Up to Capitol Riot Wall Street Journal

January 11, 2021: Businesses rethink political donations after Capitol siege Associated Press

January 7, 2021: Republican Attorneys General Dark Money Group Organized Protest Preceding Capitol Mob Attack Documented.net

December 27, 2020: Texas Fracking Billionaires Drew Covid-19 Aid While Investing in Rivals Wall Street Journal

December 8, 2020: 20 Things We Learned About Money in Politics in 2020 Brennan Center

December 1, 2020: Campaign Finance Victories in 2020 Elections Brennan Center

November 27, 2020: Trump and a Republic That We Could not Keep Counter Punch

November 23, 2020: A dark money mystery in Florida centers on the campaign of a spoiler candidate who appeared to help a Republican win by 32 votes CNN

November 20, 2020: Dark Money in the 2020 Election Brennan Center

November 17, 2020: Charles Koch Got the Free-Market Dystopia He Wanted. Now He’d Like Your Approval New Republic

November 17, 2020: Alaska Becomes First In The Nation to Approve Top-4 Primary with Ranked Choice Voting Independent Voter News

November 16, 2020: Justice Hears Case by Major Donor Opposing Governor’s Pandemic Actions Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

November 13, 2020: A Decade Later, Dems Again Say They’re Ready to Do Campaign Finance Reform Sludge

November 10, 2020: State Dems: We Still Need Campaign Finance Reform! Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

October 17, 2020: Citizens United is infamous. But an obscure case four years later — and state lawmakers’ response — has made Wisconsin politics a ‘plaything of the super rich.’ The Badger Project

October 14, 2020: ‘Look for Power in the Shadows’: Watch Sheldon Whitehouse Shine Light on ‘Dark Money Operation’ Behind GOP Supreme Court Takeover Common Dreams

October 11, 2020: Is Powell’s plot finally coming to fruition? Albuquerque Journal

October 10, 2020: The Swamp That Trump Built New York Times

October 8, 2020: The Mighty Money ($3 Billion) Fueling Campaign 2020 Washington Post

October 8, 2020: Ballot Measure 2 will improve Alaska’s elections Anchorage Daily News

October 5, 2020: Billionaire Oligarchs and Anonymous Megadonors Behind Amy Coney Barrett Ads Sludge

October 1, 2020: 2020 election to near $11 billion in total spending, smashing records Open Secrets

October 1, 2020: It’s about time billionaires paid their fair share The Daily Cardinal

September 25, 2020: In Heavily Gerrymandered Wisconsin, a Bipartisan Grassroots Movement Fights for Fair Maps Sludge

September 17, 2020: This Is the Future That Liberals Want The Atlantic

September 16, 2020: Trump shattered his promise to ‘drain the swamp.’ The self-dealing would be epic in a second term. Washington Post

September 10, 2020: The Mighty Money ($3 Billion) Fueling Campaign 2020 Washington Post

September 9, 2020: Political groups’ ‘dark money’ spending set to exceed $1 billion since Citizens United decision Washington Times

September 4, 2020: The SALT tax deduction is a handout to the rich. It should be eliminated not expanded Brookings

August 31, 2020: How a Biden win can sink one of McConnell’s top priorities CNN

August 17, 2020: ‘Disturbing Milestone’: Just 12 US Billionaires Now Own More Than $1 Trillion in Combined Wealth Common Dreams

July 21, 2020: Democracy reform groups to Biden: Don’t you forget about us The Fulcrum

July 17, 2020: Dark Money Floods in to State Elections, Revealing Cracks in Disclosure Laws Sludge

July 13, 2020: Ten Ways to (Actually) Drain the Swamp The Bulwark

July 7, 2020: The origins of the Republican Party’s plutocratic populism Washington Post

July 1, 2020: Billionaires Spent 41 Times More On 2016 Election Compared To 2008 Forbes

July 1, 2020: Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power? Paul Krugman via the NYTimes

June 17, 2020: The D.C. swamp has gotten swampier under Trump, report finds Raw Story

June 17, 2020: Why isn’t PG&E getting the death penalty? Raw Story

June 3, 2020: United To Amend Resolution Passes in Lafayette Co. Monroe Times

June 3, 2020: Montana’s tough donor disclosure law survives at Supreme Court The Fulcrum

June 3, 2020: United to Amend resolution passes in Lafayette Co. Monroe Times

May 28, 2020: Trump Admin Finalizes Rule That Could Protect Foreign Dark Money in Elections Sludge

May 27, 2020: Lafayette County Backs Overturning Citizens United Urban Milwaukee

May 26, 2020: ‘Dark money’ groups dodge reporting requirement in new regulations Politico

May 20, 2020: The Coronavirus Crisis in the U.S. Is a Failure of Democracy Time

May 15, 2020: Dems’ Health Insurer Bailout Follows Bundled Checks from the Industry’s Lobbyists Sludge

May 5, 2020: On Wisconsin! 17 More Communities Join Call for an Amendment American Promise

April 24, 2020: Campaign to Overturn Citizens United Keeps Racking Up Wins Sludge

April 18, 2020: 17 more communities pass ‘We the People’ The Monroe Times

April 17, 2020: Plain Talk: How long can Republicans ignore the people’s voice on redistricting? The Capital Times

April 16, 2020: Northwoods Voters Provided Clear Direction On Referendum Issues WXPR Rhinelander

April 16, 2020: Coronavirus Lays Bare The Staggering Class Inequalities That Divide America The Appeal

April 15, 2020: Dems’ Health Insurer Bailout Follows Bundled Checks from the Industry’s Lobbyists Sludge

April 9, 2020: American Democracy May Be Dying Paul Krugman via N.Y. Times

April 5, 2020: Dark Money Pours Into Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Sludge

April 4, 2020: 17 communities to vote on ‘We the People’ April 7 Monroe Times

April 3, 2020: Supreme Court right to uphold Seattle Democracy Vouchers The Hill

April 2, 2020: Chris Abele: ‘You’re Stuck with Me’ Shepherd Express

March 31, 2020: Poll: 57% of voters say US political system works only for insiders with money & power The Hill

March 26, 2020: 17 Wisconsin Communities to Vote on Overturning Citizens United Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

March 13, 2020: This week’s Viewpoint letters Northwoods Star Journal

March 13, 2020: Former Judge Resigns From the Supreme Court Bar Slate

March 4, 2020: Fighting corruption can unite the American people The Fulcrum

March 2, 2020: Seventh District residents find common ground on campaign finance reform, national issues New Jersey Echoes Sentinel

February 26, 2020: Group organizes to get dark money out of politics Advance Titan

February 19, 2020: Wisconsin Assembly again approves call for Constitutional convention The Cap Times

February 5, 2020: Time to Reverse ‘Citizens United’ and Corporate Constitutional Rights
Rep. Pramila Jayapal via The Nation

February 1, 2020: More Money, More Problems for Democracy The New York Times

January 30, 2020: America’s democracy is failing. Here’s why Vox

January 27, 2020: Take the Money and Run The American Prospect

January 26, 2020: “Unhappy Birthday” event for Citizens United 10 year anniversary Channel 3000

January 21, 2020: Citizens United in Wisconsin: a decade of disaster Matt Rothschiled via Wisconsin Examiner

January 21, 2020: Another Date That Will Live in Infamy: On the Tenth Anniversary of Citizens United The Montana Post

January 20, 2020: I’m a conservative against Citizens United The Hill

January 18, 2020: Unhappy anniversary to Citizens United Matt Rothschiled via GazetteXtra

January 14, 2020: More money, less transparency: A decade under Citizens United Open Secrets

January 12, 2020: Ten years on, Citizens United ruling has changed U.S. politics — but not in the way many feared Los Angeles Times

January 10, 2020: Richard S. Russell: Citizens United anniversary marks the Supreme Court’s second-worst decision The Cap Times

December 30, 2019: Krugman: Big money in politics and America’s lost decade Statesman

December 29, 2019: The Citizens United ruling broke American democracy at the start of the decade. It never recovered Salon

December 29, 2019: John Paul Stevens: The Pessimist of the Supreme Court Politico

December 21, 2019: America has ‘squandered’ the recovery and is falling behind the rest of the world, according to Harvard study Market Watch

December 20, 2019: Presidential elections have turned into money wars — thanks to a Supreme Court decision in 2010 CNBC

December 19, 2019: Listening to the call to save capitalism Khmer Times

December 19, 2019: The Decade of Citizens United Slate

December 5, 2019: For the young, getting big money out of politics is the cause of our time The Fulcrum

December 3, 2019: Presidential Candidates: What’s Your Plan for Draining the Swamp? The London Post

November 15, 2019: Grassroots Money Beats Amazon in Seattle The American Prospect

November 14, 2019: Some Democrats see political system overhaul as winning 2020 issue Roll Call

November 6, 2019: ACS on Dark Money: Who Is Capturing Our Courts (Wisconsin Edition)? American Constitution Society

November 5, 2019: The Political Corruption Legalized by the Supreme Court The New Republic

October 27, 2019: It’s just wrong to help corporations penalize dissent John Nichols via The Cap Times

October 18, 2019: More donors, smaller donations: How political fundraising has changed in Canada Yahoo News

October 15, 2019: Legalized Political Corruption Is So Much Bigger Than Trump: A Journey in 7 Charts Common Dreams

October 11, 2019: How ‘Citizens United’ Decision Paved Way for Giuliani’s Clients Parnas and Fruman to Buy influence in America Common Dreams

October 8, 2019: For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year Washington Post

October 8, 2019: ‘Good!’ Says Sanders as Lobbyists Lash Out at Proposal to End Corporate Domination of US Politics Common Dreams

September 30, 2019: Democracy vs. Oligarchy: The Real American Divide is NOT Left vs. Right Milwaukee Independent

September 20, 2019: How to fix politics in America Politico

September 19, 2019: Again, DNC debate moderators fail to ask about democracy issues The Hill

September 14, 2019: The Most Important Issue Missing From the Democratic Debates Washington Monthly

September 6, 2019: The Supreme Court has become just another arm of the GOP Washington Post

August 25, 2019: Koch brothers’ massive wealth really did reshape US politics The Sydney Morning Herald

August 23, 2019: Convention of States Fires Up Base for Push to Rewrite U.S. Constitution Center for Media & Democracy

August 20, 2019: Reform groups ask DNC to hold debate on plans to fix the political system The Fulcrum

August 12, 2019: Making money off of politics isn’t new – it was business as usual in the Gilded Age The Conversation

August 10, 2019: 21st Century Wisconsin Political Reform Chautauqua, Sept. 7-8 Green Bay Progressive

August 7, 2019: Republicans should get behind the 28th Amendment The Hill

August 7, 2019: Here’s a Look at the Campaign Backing the NRA Gives Wisconsin Legislators Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

August 2, 2019: Moscow Mitch and Yada, Yada, Yada: Progressives Need to Do a Better Job at Messaging Common Dreams

July 29, 2019: Petitions Seek Fair Election Maps, Less Money In Politics WXPR Rhinelander

July 26, 2019: Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security Bills Newsweek

July 26, 2019: Unlimited Donations to Candidates, Coming Soon? The Atlantic

July 24, 2019: MSNBC debuts four-part documentary ‘American Swamp’ about DC disconnect The Hill

July 16, 2019: Grand Chute leaders get in heated exchange with lawmaker over dark store loophole WBAY-TV

July 12, 2019: The two words we must hear at the next Democratic debate The Philadelphia Tribune

July 7, 2019: There is no ‘right’ v ‘left’: it is Trump and the oligarchs against the rest Robert Reich via Guardian

July 4, 2019: Americans must get mad enough to reclaim our democracy The Hill

July 2, 2019: Democracy reform subtly defines the presidential primary The Hill

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