Koch Industries Is the Top Corporate Pac Donor to the ‘Sedition Caucus’ Since Jan. 6 Despite Charles Koch's rebrand as a bridge builder, his company's PAC keeps supporting 2020 presidential election result objectors.
After Assessing the Insurrection, Toyota's PAC Donates to Election Objectors The automaker took just three weeks to assess the Jan. 6 riots before restarting PAC donations to Republican election objectors.
Trade Groups Decline to Cut Off GOP Objectors Sludge asked over two dozen corporate trade associations if they would follow their member companies in cutting off PAC donations to the Republican election objectors. Most declined to say they would.
Corporate America Should Immediately Cease All Political Spending, Says Reform Coalition More than 50 groups signed a letter asking companies to go beyond pausing their PACs if they want to demonstrate a commitment to democracy.
Companies Are Pausing Their PACs, But Their Trade Groups Aren’t Dozens of companies paused their PAC donations to Republican election objectors, but a loophole could continue sending them funds through corporate trade associations.
Cracks Emerge in No Corporate PAC Money Movement Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) is likely to be the first to abandon the campaign finance pledge, after promising voters before she was elected that “this kind of pay-to-play governance is unacceptable.”
Neal Sends Cease and Desist Letter Over Ad Highlighting His Corporate PAC Donors The ad features a headline from a Sludge article that found that Neal was the top recipient of corporate PAC donations in 2019.