Tag Archives: Citizens United

Russia, the NRA and dark money

An excellent article from Ciara Carolyn Torres-Spelliscy, describing clearly how dark money actually works, with startling numbers on how many bucks the NRA spent on the last several elections. A couple of key excerpts: But why would this be so … Continue reading

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How do Citizens United and the Koch Bros affect our elections? One new example

From DailyKos Elections: • WI-Sen: The Koch-backed Concerned Veterans for America recently launched another $1.6 million ad campaign against Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and her allies at VoteVets are up with their own $1 million buy defending her. The spot … Continue reading

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More on why Russia does not understand U.S.

Last night I realized that Luke Harding had not mentioned another strong element of U.S. democracy, when he wrote (in his book Collusion) that Putin made a mistake when he interfered in our elections because he does not understand the … Continue reading

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