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Secret donors continue to help bankroll Dem-aligned House Majority PAC super PAC, new FEC docs show.

HMP raised $12M in March.

That includes $4M from dark money group House Majority Forward + $1 million from Opportunity Action Fund, a dark money group created last year.

AI giant Anthropic spent $1.56 million on federal lobbying in Q1 of 2026 — a 333% increase from Q1 of 2025, when it spent $360,000.

Between January and March this year, Anthropic spent an average of roughly $17,000 per day on lobbying.

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President Trump's MAGA Inc super PAC began April with $347 million in the bank, new FEC filing shows

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Big donors to President Trump's MAGA Inc super PAC in March, per new FEC filing:

Diane Hendricks: $25 million
Marc Andreessen: $3 million
Ben Horowitz: $3 million
Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation: $2 million
GEO Group subsidiary GEO Reentry: $1 million
William & Caroline Reily: $500,000 apiece

Yet another example of AI companies continuing to invest heavily in influence operations in DC.

OpenAI, the company behind chatbot ChatGPT, spent $1.02 million lobbying in Q1, new report shows.

That's up 82% from Q1 of 2025.

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How much money does crypto-aligned super PAC Fairshake have in the bank?

So much that it raised more than $500,000 in March from investment income and interest alone

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AI companies continue to invest heavily in influence operations in DC.

AI chipmaker Nvidia spent $1.29 million lobbying in Q1, new report shows — up 37% from Q1 of 2025.

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Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Trump is seeking to set a record for personal corruption in the White House. He wants to steal your money.

100 members of Congress since 2000 have worked for foreign governments after leaving public office, according to a new @quincyinst.bsky.social analysis that cites @issueonereform.bsky.social

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Billionaires, dark money fuel questions ahead of 2026 midterms The ultra-wealthy donor class is getting ready to pour tens of millions into the fall elections that will decide which party will control Congress.

"Despite contribution limits and disclosure requirements on the sources of campaign money, wealthy interests — and billionaires in specific — are exploiting influence-peddling avenues around these laws," Craig Holman of @publiccitizen.bsky.social said

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Largely secret donors pour millions into election that could tip Congress The vast majority of the nearly $100 million raised to sway Virginia’s redistricting battle, mostly on the Democratic side, consists of untraceable dark money.

Almost all the $93 million that has fed Virginia's current redistricting debate is from untraceable dark money sources, leaving identities of individual contributors — and their agendas — cloaked in secrecy.
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How much pressure are lawmakers under to raise campaign cash?

LOTS.

New @issueonereform.bsky.social review of new FEC filings shows the typical House member in a race ranked as competitive by @CookPolitical raised $1.1 million in Q1 of 2026.

That's an average of $12,500 PER DAY

Latest installment of @issueonereform.bsky.social's Corruption Chronicles series highlights 20 ways President Donald Trump continues to profit from public office and sell access and influence

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Under the Biden Administration, the SEC accused of Justin Sun of fraudulently manipulating a cryptocurrency market.

But under the Trump Administration, the SEC settled this lawsuit for $10 million and dismissed all claims without requiring any admission of wrongdoing.

Later this month, President Trump is expected to appear at an event with the top investors of in his crypto memecoin.

No. 1 on the leaderboard right now is Chinese-born crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who reportedly avoided travel to the United States for years due to fears of arrest

Each of those approximately 60 VIP wallets controls $1 million or more of Trump's crypto memecoin.

According to @issueonereform.bsky.social's research, at least 58% of them are likely controlled by foreign nationals

More than 650,000 people have purchased President Trump's crypto memecoin since he launched in last year, but just 60-ish wallets control nearly 90% of the publicly available memecoin, according to research by @issueonereform.bsky.social

Reminder: One of the ways that President Donald Trump is selling access and influence is through his cryptocurrency memecoin, which can be purchased by Americans and foreigners alike who are looking to buy favor with the president.

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Chart of first quarter fundraising by lawmakers in the US House of Representatives running in races ranked as toss ups by the Cook Political Report.

New FEC filings show the typical lawmaker in the US House of Representatives running for reelection in a @cookpolitical.com ranked "toss up" race raised $1.2 million during Q1

That's an average of $13,400 PER DAY between Jan 1 and March 30

per new @issueonereform.bsky.social review of FEC data

By contrast, Rep. Carol Miller (R - #WV01) has raised $1.4 million, including $309K between January and March 2026

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Derrick Evans — a former WV state legislator who served a 3-month sentence for storming the Capitol on #January6th — has raised $1.2 million for his GOP primary bid against Rep. Carol Miller in #WV01, including $176K between January and March 2026

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AI giant Anthropic recently announced it was giving $20 million to Public First Action, but said the funds could not be "used to influence federal elections"

Who's funding the AI industry's Public First super PAC?

New FEC docs don't give many clues.

The super PAC reported raising $1.5 million.

Michael Cohen of the University of California gave $500K

The rest came from Public First Action, a 501(c)(4) #darkmoney group that doesn't disclose its donors

Democrat-aligned, Senate-focused super PAC Senate Majority PAC (aka SMP) raised $56 million in Q1, new FEC filing shows.

44% of that sum — $25 million — came from its affiliated #darkmoney group, Majority Forward

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