Here Is How Much AIPAC Has Given to Every Member of Congress This Cycle
The pro-Israel group’s enormous conduit operation has routed millions to lawmakers, with giving focused on key defense and spending committees.
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Trump Convenes White House Crypto Meeting With His Own Business Partners
Many of the companies at today’s White House meeting are in business with the president's or his son's crypto ventures, and have donated millions to Trump’s political committees.
Health Insurers Are Paying Third Way as It Targets the Left
A health insurance industry group run by Republican consultants made its only disclosed 2024 donation to the centrist Third Way, according to a tax filing by the group.
AIPAC Tops $100 Million in Election Spending for Second Straight Cycle
The pro-Israel group's PAC and super PAC have poured $104.3 million into the midterms, including more than $30.6 million in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, the most it has ever spent on a single race.
Carville's War on the Democratic Left Is Funded by Centrist Billionaires
James Carville's firm has been paid by American Bridge, a super PAC funded by billionaires who also bankroll groups fighting progressives in primaries—and he advised a lobbying shop the crypto industry paid more than half a million dollars.
AI Companies Are Funding the AGs Investigating Them
OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others sent a wave of donations to both parties’ attorney general groups as AGs move to regulate the AI industry. Elon Musk's xAI contributed as well.
The Billionaire Money Behind New Centrist Pledge
Promise to America won't disclose who is funding its new anti-socialist pledge. But the group is closely tied to the Welcome Party, whose affiliated PAC has raised most of its individual donor dollars from billionaires and wealthy finance executives.
Trump's $88B Iran War Supplemental Would Reward the Contractors Funding His Fourth of July Bash
Lockheed Martin, RTX, and other Freedom 250 sponsors stand to profit from the skyrocketing Pentagon budget and replenishing of missiles fired on Iran.
Wes Moore Won't Say If He Took a Citigroup Bonus After the Bailout
The Maryland governor has now dodged the question twice.
Netflix Raised Prices After Pocketing a $2.8 Billion Windfall
Anti-monopoly advocates including Sen. Elizabeth Warren tell Sludge the timing of the price hikes undermine the streaming service’s argument that it does not hold monopoly power.