Michigan Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers collected nearly $100,000 from key players in the telecommunications industry while serving in Congress and during his current Senate bid, including from companies whose interests aligned with legislation he introduced on government data sharing, according to federal campaign finance records and his congressional record. Rogers is seeking the […]
The organization that led the 2024 campaign to raise Missouri’s minimum wage and require paid sick leave is launching a $1 million grassroots campaign to defeat Republican lawmakers who helped repeal the paid leave requirement. Missouri Jobs with Justice Action has joined Progress Missouri, the Missouri Voter Project — State PAC, Missouri Workers Power, Abortion […]
Voters will decide whether to upend campaign finance in Michigan when they head to the polls in November as outrage over money in politics intensifies pressure for reform. The ballot proposal is one of the most significant efforts to curb outside spending in state politics after a years-long stalemate in Lansing. If it passes, some […]
Vanessa Lopez knew the odds were stacked against her. A first-time candidate going up against a three-term incumbent, Lopez realized she needed outside help to succeed in her Democratic primary challenge against Sen. Meghan Kallman for the District 15 seat representing Pawtucket and Providence. “I have no one in my corner, so I was like, […]
Cookeville U.S. Rep. John Rose loaned his gubernatorial campaign an additional $4 million in the final days of the Republican primary, bringing his total in self-funding to $13 million. For U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn the Tennessee Freedom Fund and Team Tennessee political action committees, PACs, backing her bid have consolidated under one entity after raising […]
For weeks, The Independent has profiled 11 state Senate primaries on Tuesday’s ballot, including nine Republican contests. In most of these districts, the primary is the whole election. Read together, the GOP primaries look less like nine separate campaigns than nine versions of the same argument: What, exactly, do Republican voters want? Four things will […]
A political action committee operated by officers of the conservative pro-private school voucher group Club For Growth has spent $4.81 million backing U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s gubernatorial bid, months after Blackburn donated a nearly identical amount to the organization’s primary PAC, campaign finance reports show. In May, Blackburn nearly emptied her federal campaign account, donating […]
Better late than never, Tennessee’s campaign finance watchdog will take up a sworn complaint against a dark-money group that’s been pounding U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn with a TV ad calling her “queen pharma mama.” The Registry of Election Finance is set to consider the complaint by Chip Buck of Pall Mall, a Blackburn surrogate, at […]
I messaged my friends and family this week asking for political mailers that they received. The replies that I got were nearly identical: I think I tossed them. I trash them as they come in. They went out with the recycling yesterday. Ha. I just trashed/destroyed them last night. Maybe “destroyed” is a bit harsh, […]
As U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Alexandria, seeks his seventh term, the prominent Democrat is facing four primary opponents who say it’s time for their Northern Virginia district to have fresh representation in Congress. The 8th Congressional District’s Democratic primary represents a fissure between the party’s candidates and voters, who are united in a mission to […]
