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[link removed] [[link removed]] John,

Representative George Santos may have been expelled from office last week, but if there's one thing we know about politics right now, it's that his expulsion doesn't mean our work for a more ethical government is over.

In fact, it feels like we're busier than ever, advocating for a ban on congressional stock trading, pushing for accountability for January 6th and continuing to call for other corrupt officials to resign (we're looking at you, Senator Menendez and Justice Thomas). Here’s just some of what we’ve been up to:

1.
In
a
brand
new
investigation
of
senators’
personal
finance
disclosures,
we
discovered
that
ten
senators
own
up
to
$1.2
million
in
Big
Oil
stocks,
all
while
voting
on
climate
bills
and
sitting
on
committees
tasked
with
addressing
the
climate
crisis
[[link removed]]
.
Needless
to
say,
that’s
a
huge
conflict
of
interest
(and
another
of
the
many
reasons
congressional
stock
trading
needs
to
be
banned).
2.
3.
We
delved
into
the
tax
forms
of
two
dark
money
groups
tied
to
some
big
names.
One
group
called
One
Nation
shelled
out
over
$60
million
to
its
sister
super
PAC,
the
Senate
Leadership
Fund,
last
year
[[link removed]]
.
It
did
so
in
part
because
Mitch
McConnell
was
reportedly
working
aggressively
to
make
that
happen.
We
also
found
that
the
Conservative
Partnership
Institute—a
group
that
has
been
described
as
the
“insurrectionists’
clubhouse”—
brought
in
more
than
$36.3
million
in
2022
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.
More
than
62%
of
the
group’s
revenue
came
from
just
four
anonymous
donors,
and
its
affiliated
groups
involve
key
election
deniers
like
Mark
Meadows
and
Stephen
Miller.
4.
5.
In
a
new
analysis
of
tax
data
from
the
group
American
Legislative
Exchange
Council,
or
ALEC,
we
revealed
how
corporations
are
able
to
secretly
bankroll
a
group
promoting
policies
that
undermine
democracy
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and
disproportionately
target
marginalized
communities.
Thanks
to
weak
disclosure
laws,
ALEC
has
no
legal
obligation
to
disclose
its
funding
sources—despite
annual
revenues
that
have
exceeded
$10
million.
6.
7.
When
the
Supreme
Court’s
new
code
of
conduct
dropped,
we
outlined
exactly
how
the
code
lacks
teeth
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.
Introducing
a
set
of
new
rules
for
the
justices
is
an
important
step,
but
it
needs
to
be
made
enforceable
and
binding
to
restore
public
trust
in
the
Court
and
truly
address
its
ethics
crisis.
8.
9.
We
explained
why
the
Supreme
Court
also
needs
staggered
18-year
term
limits
to
mitigate
its
corruption
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.
Lifetime
SCOTUS
appointments
encourage
powerful
outside
actors
to
unethically
gain
justices'
favor
through
expensive
trips
and
gifts,
which
means
corruption
among
justices
mounts
over
the
decades
they
spend
on
the
bench.
10.
11.
We
urged
James
Comer
and
Jim
Jordan
to
stop
interfering
with
the
DC
Attorney
General’s
investigation
into
Leonard
Leo
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,
making
clear:
congressional
interference
in
an
ongoing
investigation
isn’t
legitimate
oversight,
it’s
a
weaponization
of
Congress’s
oversight
powers.

Other ethics news we’re watching includes the Senate Judiciary Committee authorizing subpoenas for GOP megadonor Harlan Crow and judicial activist Leonard Leo last week [[link removed]] , Mike Johnson’s shady finances [[link removed]] , and Ohio GOP senate candidate Frank LaRose missing deadlines to disclose his finances [[link removed]] and raising questions about a $250,000 loan he made to his campaign.

We’re also seeing a huge increase in attention in our tracker—originally launched in 2021— that details the corporations that fund the 2020 election deniers in Congress [[link removed]] as Home Depot faces criticism [[link removed]] for donating $1 million to GOP election deniers.

We’re making real waves in the real world with our accountability and transparency work, and that’s exactly what we want to keep doing. If you want to help us do that, we hope you’ll consider making a donation now. → [[link removed]]

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