Warren stands to gain from Castro donors after endorsement
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. Read More
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. Read More
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst denounced ‘dark money’ as her campaign privately embraced it
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. Read More
OpenSecrets is excited to embark on a new investigation funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York
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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.
