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November 9, 2023
Epic Games sues Google as both lobby on antitrust legislation
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Google faces off with Fortnite developer Epic Games in federal court this week, one of three active antitrust cases brought against the tech giant.
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IRS free tax filing rollout faces hurdles after multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign
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A new congressional proposal could throw a wrench in IRS plans to launch a free government-run tax filing program after years of lobbying.
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Virginia campaigns set fundraising records
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Virginia’s high-stakes General Assembly elections on Nov. 7 were the commonwealth’s most expensive on record — and could prove to be among the costliest legislative elections in U.S. history.
This story was published in collaboration with the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO.
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OpenSecrets' Chart of the Week
Dive deeper into the data behind the headlines
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Here are the individuals who have dipped deepest into their own pockets for campaign contributions to federal candidates, parties, political action committees, 527 organizations and Carey committees.
In the 2022 midterms, these donors contributed over $600 million to influence elections at the federal level. Only contributions to Democrats and Republicans or liberal and conservative outside groups are included in calculating the percentages the donor has given to either party.
Sam Bankman-Fried was a top donor in 2022, but Bankman-Fried was recently convicted for masterminding one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history [[link removed]] by misappropriating customer funds to become one of the largest donors of the 2022 midterms.
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OpenSecrets in the News
See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:
In Israeli-Palestinian battle to sway Congress, only one side wins (The Washington Post) [[link removed]]
Pro-Israel lobbyist groups and individuals contributed nearly $31 million to American congressional candidates during last year’s election cycle — more than six times the contributions candidates received from the gun rights lobby — according to OpenSecrets, a Washington nonprofit that tracks campaign finance and lobbying data.
Chief Executive of National Association of Realtors Resigns (The New York Times) [[link removed]]
The resignation of Bob Goldberg comes days after a $1.8 billion verdict against N.A.R. and two months after The New York Times exposed complaints of sexual harassment in the group. N.A.R. is a nonprofit that holds more than $1 billion in assets and also operates RPAC, a political action committee that is, according to Open Secrets, the number one political fund-raising organization in the country. In the 2022 election cycle, the committee raised more than $80 million for both Democratic and Republican candidates.
Biden primary challenger Dean Phillips sees little support from past home state donors in Minnesota (CNBC) [[link removed]]
Out of the more than $10 million Phillips has raised since first running for Congress in 2018, a vast majority of contributions have come from Minnesota. During his successful 2022 reelection bid, Phillips raised around 82% of his more than $2 million in donations from in-state donors, with nearly $1.5 million coming from backers based in Minnesota, according to data from the nonpartisan organization OpenSecrets.
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