Nine New Jersey companies that received $12.3 million in payments related to state contracts in 2016 contributed $55,900 to the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) in the first six months of 2017, according to CREW’s review of data available from the Internal Revenue Service and the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. The DGA spent […]
Our democracy urgently needs to restore checks on executive power eroded by Donald Trump and to build new checks on executive power.
Our elections have become a competition for money—not just for votes. To restore our democracy, we need to limit secret money in politics.
While HR 1 remains in limbo in Congress, it is important to recognize the reforms being implemented at the local level.
From Washington, DC to Washington state, from Missouri to San Francisco, from Albuquerque to Ohio, positive change is happening if you know where to look.
Private prisons, payday lenders, fossil fuel companies, and dozens of other special interests have learned one important truth about influence in the age of Trump: If you want to gain favor with the president and his administration, it doesn’t hurt to hold lavish events at the properties he still owns and profits from. In […]
[…] attorney, or anyone running for those positions, to accept campaign contributions from major city contractors or from businesses or industries that lobby the city – a so-called pay–to–play law. Another new rule would address concerns about powerful city officials who turn immediately to lobbying when they leave office; it prevents them from being paid […]
Our democracy urgently needs more robust methods for holding the president accountable to the people.
Trump has been an ethics disaster, and exposed a glaring need for executive branch ethics reform, to hold those in power accountable to the people.
The IRS has failed time and time again to address blatant violations of the law by 501(c)(4) groups, despite being alerted.
We have created an incomplete list of the steps President Trump has taken to annihilate the checks and balances on his power, starting with his failure to release his tax returns.
[…] this propaganda-style video may well violate federal appropriations law. The “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020” (Public Law 116-93) expressly prohibits the use of any federal appropriations—including those that pay White House salaries and expenses—for publicity or propaganda not authorized by Congress. Section 718 of the law reads: “No part of any appropriation contained in this […]
Trump is an insurrectionist, and the Supreme Court does not dispute that fact.
While they should have barred him from the ballot, the Court not exonerating him is a win for democracy.
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