Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes about the year’s campaign finance developments. Here’s #1:

1. Corporate donors keep giving despite the January 6 insurrection.

The attack in the Capitol was bad enough that some corporations said they would suspend their donations to the sedition caucus. But a few months later, most of the corporations who made such pledges found ways to give money to the same people either directly or indirectly through intermediaries like leadership PACS. Hopefully in the new year, corporations will back democracy more robustly, including by supporting the passage of the Freedom to Vote Act and John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Well, a girl can dream.