In a Wall Street Journal column last week, Sen. Ted “Cancún” Cruz (R-TX) warned that CEOs opposing Republican threats to voting rights will be excluded from his party’s pay-to-play legislative operation — because they’re no longer conservative enough for the GOP. For example, Republicans will stop accepting donations in exchange for “looking the other way” … Read more
Above Graphic: From the Public Citizen report. Despite nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states, America’s largest corporations are just paying lip service while funding the very voter suppression Republicans. A new report (pdf) released Monday morning by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that during the 2020 election … Read more
New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer is an expert on the influence of “dark money” in our political system. She wrote the damn book on the influence of dark money. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Mayer’s latest reporting is on the “Kochtopus,” the dark money radical … Read more
The Democratic-controlled House in the previous Congress passed H.R.1, the For The People Act of 2019. Quick summary: This bill addresses voter access, election integrity, election security, political spending, and ethics for the three branches of government. Specifically, the bill expands voter registration and voting access and limits removing voters from voter rolls. The bill … Read more
Arizona’s appointed, not elected, senator Martha McSally has spent too much time hanging out with her new best friend, Donald Trump. Apparently he has been teaching her “the art of the con” and grifting that he perfected with his Donald J. Trump Foundation, which has since been dissolved and ordered to give away all of … Read more