Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group

The presidential election and U.S congressional races have taken up a lot of oxygen in the room this cycle, but as we predicted, there’s also a lot going on at the state and local level. Gridlock at the federal level has outside money moving down ballot...

Though spending on the presidential race is actually down a little for the first time in years, competitive U.S. Senate races are raising and spending money at a record-breaking pace. According to a Sunlight Foundation analysis of campaign finance data...

First Trump “self-funded” his campaign. Then Trump accepted seven-figure checks from big-donors — while still claiming he was the only one buoying his campaign. Then he halted joint fundraising altogether…but now he’s back at it again.
In a surprising move, Trump’s campaign manager, Steve Mnuchin, announced Oct. 25 that Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee that can raise huge sums of money, will cease formal fundraising operations. While the campaign will continue to take in...

During the primaries, Donald Trump denounced super PACs and boasted that he was self-funding his presidential run. When a super PAC popped up under the “Make America Great Again” moniker, Washington Post reporters started questioning those statements...