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Judd Legum tells us about his new app for unmasking whose behind political ads
Joyce Vance and Judd Legum
#DarkMoney #MTPol #SuperPAC
joycevance.substack.com/p/paid-for-by
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#dark-money — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dark-money, aggregated by home.social.
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HATE FOR PROFIT
white supremacists and dark money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvPPaIN5Ew
Who's actually behind the angriest content on Facebook?
#WhiteSupremacy #AIRageBaiting #Offshore #HateHubs #Profit #AI #DarkMoney
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Can't think why the UK Press has such a problem with Jolyon Maugham and the Good Law Project....
#UKpol #UKpolitics #UKLaw #UKPress #EpsteinClass #NoBillionaires #DarkMoney #Corruption #Oligarchs
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Popular Information is releasing paidforby.info, a free web app that gives you insight into who is sending you mail — and who is paying for it. Just take a photo of the front and the back of the political mailer and upload it.
#MTPol #DarkMoney #PAC #SuperPAC
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Popular Information is releasing https://PaidForBy.info, a free web app that gives you insight into who is sending you mail — and who is paying for it. Just take a photo of the front and the back of the political mailer and upload it.
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#darkmoney #JimHightower #resistauthoritarianism #resistoligarchy
– stuff a couple of burlap bags with hay and dress your “man” in an old flannel shirt, overalls, and straw hat. But today’s billionaires, corporate elites, and other political megadonors have come up with their own version of this creature – stuff a couple of silk pillows with thousand-dollar bills, dress him in a fine-tailored suit, and – voilá! – they turn a common straw man into a congress man.
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-cant-ill-seniors-get-even-a-scrap-d84
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The Dark-Money Pipeline : Why Maine Deserves Answers From Susan Collins Essay
By Winston Wendell When Maine residents vote, they need to demand integrity and transparency from their senior. However, Senator Susan Collins has consistently been at odds with transparency and has attracted the FBI’s suspicion on multiple occasions. Even though her campaign’s dark money contributions have been scrutinized in the past, it seems that Mrs. Collins has managed to secure a steady stream of untraceable funds. Thanks to Donald Trump's DOJ they buried the investigation. […] -
🔎 Follow the Money
Political spending can shape what voters see and hear. Transparency matters because voters should be able to identify who is financing efforts to influence their choices.
Read more:
newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/get-forei...
#DarkMoney #ElectionTransparency
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🔎 Follow the Money
Political spending can shape what voters see and hear. Transparency matters because voters should be able to identify who is financing efforts to influence their choices.
Read more:
https://newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/get-foreign-money-out-of-us-elections
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer, 2016
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?
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Stations have to file their political ad orders with the FCC, and those filings are public. AZ Follow the Money pulls the ones from 26 Arizona broadcast stations into a single searchable ledger for the 2026 cycle.
Search by committee or station, sort by dollars or flight date, and every row links back to the source FCC document. Built by one person from public records.
azfollowthe.money
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“Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings”
by Iain Overton in Byline Times
@uk_politics
@resist_fascism
@Yogiomm
@channel4“Senior Reform UK figures, including Nigel Farage, have been filmed in an undercover investigation examining ways in which money originating from a seemingly wealthy American donor could benefit the party without its source appearing in public records, Channel 4 News revealed last night”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Undercover #Sting #ReformUK #Channel4News #ElectoralLaw #DarkMoney #ForeignInfluence #Farage #Orr #Cambridge #Palantir #Thiel #Vance #FarRight #Racism #GreatReplacement #Harborne #Cottrell #Donation #Jukes #Verbatim #MetPolice
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Dark money groups blanketing Maine airwaves with Susan Collins ads #Maine #susancollins #darkmoney #cartoon #gregkearney #kearney
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Republican Dark Money Tactics in Maine Primary Spark Controversy
📰 Original title: GOP's 'breathlessly cynical' primary trick in Maine floors Chris Hayes
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/republican-dark-money-tactics-in-maine-primary-spark-controversy.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
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2 NYT: The anonymously sourced expenditures are so big that, in some instances, they are outstripping the #spending of #campaigns themselves, making #candidates seem like bystanders of their own #elections.
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1 NYT on #darkmoney in #US #politics: #Secret money is not new. But the pervasiveness has reached industrial scale in 2026 — and serves as a preview of its coming prevalence in 2028. Nearly every major primary and battleground race this fall has been or will be shaped by #secretfunds. 🧵
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1 NYT on #darkmoney in #US #politics: #Secret money is not new. But the pervasiveness has reached industrial scale in 2026 — and serves as a preview of its coming prevalence in 2028. Nearly every major primary and battleground race this fall has been or will be shaped by #secretfunds. 🧵
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www.tumblr.com/climatejusti... LP-153 "Follow the Money" Transparency Powering Regeneration: Exposing Corruption, Restoring Ethics and Global Trust #Accountability #civicempowerment #Corruption #darkmoney
#democracy #Ethics #exposecorruption #followthemoney
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quislingborisjohnson.blogspot.com/2025/11/foll... LP-153 "Follow the Money" Transparency Powering Regeneration: Exposing Corruption, Restoring Ethics and Global Trust #Accountability #civicempowerment #Corruption #darkmoney
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Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads
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Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads
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"No one pays money unless there is some value to be gained from paying it." I'm not a gambler but I'm betting the PM sold out us mug punters to his billionaire donors. Again. #australia #ausgov #anthonyalbanese #politicaldonations #politicalfavor #darkmoney
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/aug/26/it-shouldnt-be-a-secret-who-the-prime-minister-has-dinner-with-and-what-was-discussed-australians-deserve-to-know-ntwnfb -
Dark Money group running ads for no-show Kean in NJ and NON-centrist Lawler in Rockland.
No more #darkmoney in politics!
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Democrat Acton vows to take on political corruption & dark money spending | Government & Politics
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton takes questions from the media during an Aug. 19, 2026 campaign stop in…
#Politics #AmyActon #corruption #darkmoney #ohio #revolvingdoor #VivekRamaswamy
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https://www.europesays.com/3204003/ Democrat Acton vows to take on political corruption & dark money spending | Government & Politics #AmyActon #corruption #DarkMoney #ohio #Politics #RevolvingDoor #VivekRamaswamy
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@USpol #AIPAC #DarkMoney #AllIn #ChrisHayes
Hold that phone, Leroy. Woah.
It's that segment Chris Hayes covered just now about dishonesty in PAC political ads, but making the point that PACs that are against a particular candidate winning will not use the cause that they're organized for but use instead public issues they're convinced that the voters are dead set against and then accuse, falsely, that the target candidate is guilty of that instead.I don't see how THAT is anything new, but what's new is the Democrat-on-Democrat verbal violence, so to speak--the AIPAC Wasserman-Schultz wing of the Party vs the Democratic Socialist wing....except in AIPAC's case, well, they target any candidate who even wants to put guardrails around any aid that the US gives to Israel. And yeah, they will NOT say that's WHY they have targeted the candidate; they won't make that case but they'll make a side-case like immigration. ICE. And lie about it.
But this is what AIPAC has always done, actually--Hayes is a couple decades late in pointing that out.Following that segment, the bottom banner of the screen displayed:
"Trump says he doesn't need to campaign for Republicans".Except that's exactly what he's doing in the gubernatorial run-off primary election in Oklahoma, where there's GOP-on-GOP verbal "violence". Trump has a United Arab Emirates interest in that aluminum smelter proposed for Inola, OK, and that's what the negative ads against the #Trump favorite candidate focus on, and it's the reason why Trump is spending ad money on boosting Mike Mazzey vs Gentner Drummond and Drummond knows that the smelter and ANY foreign ownership of Oklahoma business and/or land will land where the Oklahoma voters live.
It's to be noted that the UAE also sits on the Board of Peace, so if y'all are wondering why any nation in its right mind would pay the big bux to sit on that board, well, wonder no more--odds are good that they've been bribed with such perks as this to do so.
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“The central corrupting feature of our politics right now is the power of money to buy politicians
so that government is captured by them,
not for us,” El-Sayed said as he fielded questions from the stage“AIPAC will spend huge amounts of money if you’re uppity like me and you speak out of turn to beat you,
and you’re seeing it play out on TV every day.”#MoneyIsNotSpeech #darkmoney #michigan
#moneyoutofpolitics
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Voters will likely have the chance to decide this fall whether to ban political spending in state elections by Michigan’s regulated utilities and large government contractors.
#EnergyMastodon #Corruption #climate #EnergyTransition #DarkMoney
https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/money-out-of-politics-proposal-cleared-for-michigan-ballot
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“‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder’s Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures”
by Nafeez Ahmed in The Byline Times on Substack
“Why did Reform UK change from a privately-owned company into a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Ahmed investigates its funding and a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/posh-george-two-passports-and-a-fraudulent
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #Farage #Tice #Azami #ReformUKLtd #Cottrell #Donations #PoshGeorge #Fraud #DarkMoney #Finance #Criminal #MetPolice #NCA #Montenegro #Harborne #Abramovich #Drewitt
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Dark money, claims of racism continue to cloud Aurora Democratic primary legislative race
In this case, where you have two candidates who are Black women, you have to ask, ‘racism in service of whom?’
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Dark money, claims of racism continue to cloud Aurora Democratic primary legislative race
In this case, where you have two candidates who are Black women, you have to ask, ‘racism in service of whom?’
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To me, the most disturbing part is how news outlets keep reporting as if elections are decided by donations rather than votes. Almost like they think we believe every ad we see, so the most ads win.
Ken Paxton Scrambles to Win Back the Big-Dollar Donors
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#Minnesota #congress #senate #elections #DarkMoney #SuperPacs
#AngieCraig’s super PAC donors incl hedge fund founder, #UnitedHealth, & Chevron, but much of funding is unknown (dark money)
#PeggyFlanagan is backed by the DLGA (some questionable donors as well) & Clear Voice Minnesota. “Both super PACs must disclose their donors.” (NOT dark money)
Fellow MN Dems, letting Craig get the nomination would be a mistake and missed opportunity. Primary voting has started.
