Bloomberg: California’s Democratic attorney general says she can be trusted to keep secret the names and addresses of donors to a nonprofit started by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. Still, Kamala Harris has a fight on her… Continue reading

Open Secrets: Twenty-four politically active nonprofits — including some of the biggest names in dark money — have devoted more than half their total spending to influencing elections in at least one year between 2008 and 2013, a Center… Continue reading

A timely update from Steven Sholk.

NBC News reports.

Stephen Spaulding blogs at The Hill.

NYT editorial. 

CPI: A secretive nonprofit group that helped boost Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky during his hotly contested 2014 re-election bid itself raised more money than McConnell’s challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes, according to copies of the group’s tax… Continue reading

CPI: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid lambasted secret political cash when he appeared last week in a video filmed and produced by a liberal advocacy group. “Working families can’t compete with billionaires,” Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said in the… Continue reading

CPI: Democratic Party-aligned “dark money” powerhouse Patriot Majority USA collected half of the $30 million it raised last year from five anonymous donors, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of a new tax filing from the group.… Continue reading