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January 9th, 2020
This week in money-in-politics
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** Warren stands to gain from Castro donors after endorsement
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren stands to gain from former U.S. housing secretary Julián Castro’s endorsement as Castro had most donors in common with Warren compared to other Democratic candidates. Last week Castro suspended his campaign for president, and on Monday, he endorsed Warren. Castro is the second former Democratic primary candidate to endorse a current candidate.
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** Trump judicial adviser’s ‘dark money’ network hides Supreme Court spending
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A secretive network spending millions of dollars to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks terminated multiple 501(c)(4) nonprofit nodes last year while funneling money to an even more opaque limited-liability company, further obscuring the network’s funding sources. At the crux of that network is Leonard Leo.
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** Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst denounced ‘dark money’ as her campaign privately embraced it
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Around the same time that Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) publicly expressed distaste for “dark money” this summer, a consultant for her campaign reportedly approached a donor about backing a secretly funded group supporting the Iowa Republican’s reelection bid. Democratic forces seeking to unseat Ernst in 2020 are pouncing on an Associated Press report appearing to show that a pro-Ernst dark money group worked closely with the campaign.
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CRP is excited to announce a new investigation into the defense industry’s influence as a driver of arms proliferation and escalating armed conflict. The project, funded by a two year grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and undertaken in partnership with the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, will draw on and expand CRP’s extensive money in politics data, connecting it to arms transfer records and WPF’s policy research to create new tools that illustrate the role the defense industry plays in policy affecting the sale of arms around the world.
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* ** Women donate to multiple candidates. But men tend to stick to people who look like them (Vox) ([link removed])
Written by OpenSecrets researcher Grace Haley, this piece examines the role gender plays in political contributions.

* ** ActBlue says it raised $1 billion for Democrats in 2019 (The Hill) ([link removed])
Small-dollar donors gave Democratic candidates and groups more than $1 billion in 2019 through the online platform ActBlue.

* ** Outside group attacks Maine’s Susan Collins on prescription drug pricing (Roll Call) ([link removed])
Majority Forward is hitting Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) over prescription drug costs with a statewide six-figure TV and digital ad campaign this week.

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