#darkmoney — Public Fediverse posts
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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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Montana Has an Ambitious Plan to End Dark Money in Elections
Fifteen years after a landmark Supreme Court case turbocharged corporate spending in the political process, a group hopes it may have a way to finally rein in some of the outsized influence of the ultrawealthy. The 2010 ruling on Citizens United v. FEC opened the floodgates of political spending in elections. Every year since then, untraceable financial political contributions…
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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#Billionaire #LeonardLeo’s Extremely #Revealing #Letter to a #DarkMoney #Group
The #rightwing #powerbroker’s call to “#weaponize” #conservative #ideas tells us everything we need to know about his #twisted #vision for #America.
https://newrepublic.com/article/186013/leonard-leo-85-fund-revealing-letter-dark-money-group
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"We need to be aware of the history leading to the current moment. McConahay has done us a great service by laying out the case."
And, of course, as Roberts says, Clarence Thomas, wife Ginni, and Leonard Leo and the corruption of a Supreme Court dominated by hard-right Catholics loom very large large in McConahay's study.
#Catholics #CatholicBishops #US #HardRight #CultureWars #DarkMoney #Republicans #ClarenceThomas #GinniThomas #LeonardLeo #SupremeCourt #corruption
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"Catholics today, still recovering from the deep betrayal by bishops in the ongoing sexual abuse scandal, may be reluctant to consider that their church is being further distorted and turned inside out by unseemly forces in their midst. But Catholicism in America is metastasizing into a thoroughly American Catholicism, subservient to the culture's most rapacious instincts."
#Catholics #CatholicBishops #US #HardRight #CultureWars #DarkMoney #Republicans
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Tom Roberts writes, reviewing Mary Jo McConahay's new book, Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right:
"A primary concern for those reporting on the Catholic Church in the United States today should be following the money."
#Catholics #CatholicBishops #US #HardRight #CultureWars #DarkMoney #Republicans
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Hi I'm a 30-something #identityLeftist and in late 2020 learned the word '#coup'.
Do I get a gold star, mommy?
#ILearnedANewWord #doIGetAGoldStar #USLedCoup #USCoup #colourRevolution #weaponsSales #cia #USInterference #rightwingExtremists #corporateMedia #darkMoney #Australia #Bolivia #Libya #Chile #Guatemala #howManyCoupsHaveWeMissed