Mysterious Dark Money Group That Backed ‘Big Oil’s Favorite Democrat’ Was Funded by Big Oil
American Workers for Progress, which spent big for Cuellar, was funded by an oil and gas industry lobbying group.
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American Workers for Progress, which spent big for Cuellar, was funded by an oil and gas industry lobbying group.
Good-government groups are calling on Congress to reform the dysfunctional agency.
Scaremongering advertisements in state court races were paid for by shadowy groups whose true funding sources weren’t available to voters.
A Republican-linked nonprofit was the top donor to House Republicans' super PAC, which spent big in a number of swing races that saw the GOP retake seats lost to Democrats in 2018.
Voters approved a measure from state Republicans that reverses redistricting reforms passed on the ballot on 2018 while also making virtually meaningless tweaks to lobbying and campaign finance laws.
The donors include the super PAC arm of Charles Koch's main political nonprofit and the Republican State Leadership Committee.
The campaign behind a ballot measure to reverse Missouri's voter-approved redistricting reforms did not raise money from a single Missouri resident, instead relying on funding from GOP party groups and nondisclosing conservative nonprofits.
It's the same group that promoted hydroxychloroquine to the president in March.
Center Forward, a "dark money" group with major funding from Big Pharma, is running a Facebook ad campaign touting the pharmaceutical industry as its super PAC spends millions to re-elect Blue Dog Democrats.
The state's clean elections commission will now be required to defer to the IRS on which political spending groups can keep their donors secret.