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Two prominent Democratic consulting firms, Wavelength Strategy and SKDK, are owned by Stagwell, a marketing company that partnered with major ICE contractor Palantir to build an AI-driven advertising and audience-targeting system.
The Innovative Future Collective, packed with corporate lobbyists for AI industry giants like OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, has been paying for House and Senate staff trips to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.
NPR listeners weren’t told the think tank receives millions from Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Northrop Grumman.
The President recently disclosed more than a hundred late trades made since May of last year, nearly all in banks and financial institutions.
Sludge analyzed FEC data to create a searchable list of AIPAC’s donations this cycle to every member of Congress.
A mysterious super PAC, Article One PAC, has spent $600,000 supporting Rep. Valerie Foushee in the NC-04 Democratic primary against challenger Nida Allam.
A new FEC filing reveals the House Democrat campaign arm's latest Palantir lobbying firm fundraising haul.
A new Public Citizen report analyzes lobbying disclosures for 2025 and finds that lobbying on AI issues has skyrocketed.
Alexander Karp, the CEO of ICE surveillance contractor Palantir, donated in September to Warner's joint fundraising committee, leadership PAC, and the Virginia Democratic Party.
From crypto companies to defense contractors, new lobbying clients steered $145 million to firms led by Trump insiders in the first year of his return to power.
