Daily Beast: Citing “lessons learned from online engagement with ‘Bernie Bros,’” a pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC is pledging to spend $1 million to “push back against” users on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram. Correct the Record’s “Barrier Breakers” project boasts… Continue reading

Eliza Newlin Carney for TAP: In legal terms, Bernie Sanders’s complaint that Hillary Clinton’s joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National Committee improperly benefits her campaign doesn’t withstand close scrutiny. The Sanders camp’s professed shock that the Hillary Victory Fund… Continue reading

Liz Kennedy in the San Diego Union-Tribune: But the fact is that a majority of Americans support the same basic policies — including government action to fight income inequality and improve wages, to regulate banks and the financial sector,… Continue reading

Nick Carnes for TPM Cafe.

Bob Bauer blogs. I address the press exemption at some length in “The (New) Media” chapter of Plutocrats United.

Buzzfeed reports.

CPI reports.

I have written this guest post as part of a celebration of the 5th anniversary of RegBlog. It begins: Over the last five years, the rules regulating money in federal elections have become increasingly loosened, not as the result of… Continue reading

Jack Collens at The Monkey Cage.