Hillary Clinton Calls For ‘Toppling’ The 1%…Whie Being Bankrolled By The 1%

A large portion of that money is expected to come from two of her closest support groups in the private sector: Wall Street and the military-industrial-complex

Nick Bernabe
By Nick Bernabe
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Whitney Brothers Inc during a campaign stop, Monday, April 20, 2015, in Keene, N.H.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Whitney Brothers Inc during a campaign stop, Monday, April 20, 2015, in Keene, N.H. (ANTIMEDIA) This really happened. As crazy as it sounds, Hillary Clinton is trying to repackage her war-torn reputation into a populist spitting image of progressive icon Elizabeth Warren. The

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Campaign Finance Disclosure: The Laws States Need To Shine Light On Dark Money In Politics

“There’s a whole list of groups or individuals that provide dark money. People or corporations … the public ought to know who is spending money to influence our votes,” a representative for a group lobbying for honest, open government tells MintPress.

Katie Lentsch
By Katie Lentsch
Chris Christie

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Las Vegas. Several possible GOP presidential candidates gathered in Las Vegas as Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate, looks for a new favorite to help on the 2016 race for the White House. MINNEAPOLIS --- As the influence of money

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Communities Vote To Boot Big Money From Politics

Huge margins back up claim that ‘nearly all Americans share the sentiment that corporations should not have the same rights as people’.

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton

Citizens in dozens of communities voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, which opened the door for the super-rich and corporations to trample democracy. As they headed to the polls to vote in what turned

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In Record ‘Dark Money’ Election, Chamber Of Commerce Top Shadowy Spender: Report

‘When large corporations decide they want to get their own candidates into office but they don’t want to be seen doing it, they call the U.S. Chamber.’

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare

This election season, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is coming out ahead—as the number one dark money spender of 2014, watchdog Public Citizen revealed in a report released Wednesday. "In a record year for dark money expenditures, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is leading the way," reads the report, entitled The Dark Side of

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Dark Money Spending in Key Senate Races ‘Shattering’ Records: Report

Outside spending ‘giving wealthy spenders more power than ever to buy influence over our political process and elected officials,’ says report author

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley
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Unknown donors and big-monied, outside groups are pouring record amounts of cash into key Senate races set to determine which political party will take control over the upper house come November's election, according to a new report published Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice. The report, Election Spending 2014: 9 Toss-Up Senate

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Record Response Urges SEC To Require Disclosure Of Corporate Political Spending

“What gets disclosed gets managed,” the Teamsters’ director of capital strategies tells MintPress. The union is one of more than a million groups and individuals formally urging the government to move forward on requiring publicly traded corporations to report their political contributions.

Carey L. Biron
By Carey L. Biron
Chris Christie

WASHINGTON --- More than a million comments have been filed with federal regulators urging the government to begin requiring publicly traded corporations to report on their political spending. The response has been the largest ever received by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The million-plus petitions received by the commission

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