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Rep. Eric Swalwell's bid to use campaign funds for childcare services while traveling abroad has set off a firestorm between federal regulators appointed by Bush and Trump
Rep. Eric Swalwell asked the FEC for permission to pay for childcare services via his campaign, sta…
Madison Hall
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Facing public outrage, federal officials have given Americans more time to weigh in on Google's plan to relax spam filters for political emails
Google wants to make it easier for political committees to send fundraising solicitations and commu…
Dave Levinthal
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Federal officials failed to investigate Trump campaign's money 'laundering': lawsuit
The failure to investigate the Trump campaign could embolden more laundering of political spending …
C. Ryan Barber
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Trump and Gaetz's rejected complaints show conservative attempts to punish Big Tech via the Federal Election Commission are doomed
Republican politicians say that social media companies have an "anti-conservative bias," but the Fe…
Bryan Metzger
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FEC lets Peter Thiel-funded super PAC off the hook
A complaint filed in June 2022 said that the Protect Ohio Values PAC illegally contributed to Sen. …
Bryan Metzger
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A commissioner on the FEC extensively debunked Trump's mail-voting fraud 'conspiracy theory', and said it undermines democracy
Trump's claim that mail-voting leads to voter fraud has been fact-checked by Twitter — and now reje…
Tom Porter
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Attention Gmail users: Your inboxes are about to get way more spammy with political email thanks to a new ruling by federal regulators
Gmail users who have expressed outrage at hyperbolic and misleading political emails won't like the…
Dave Levinthal
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After commissioners' verbal brawl, FEC won't let Rep. Eric Swalwell's use campaign cash to fund overnight childcare when traveling abroad
The FEC did, however, vote to allow Swalwell to use campaign funds to pay for overnight childcare s…
Madison Hall
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Trump's campaign committee dodges penalty as federal watchdog deadlocks on complaint it laundered hundreds of millions of dollars
The ruling by the Federal Election Commission, which the agency has not yet made public, does not o…
Dave Levinthal,C. Ryan Barber
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The Federal Election Commission let Trump off the hook for allegedly using $2.8 million in charitable donations to veterans for political purposes
Two Democratic commissioners are accusing their Republican colleagues of refusing to enforce the la…
Bryan Metzger
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FEC finds 'reason to believe' Sen. Thom Tillis and John Bolton violated the 'foreign national ban' by working with British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica
Two commissioners also said that former President Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, who also worked with Cam…
Bryan Metzger
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The FEC affirmed that foreigners can fund US ballot measures because they're technically not elections
The commission ruled 4-2 that an Australian mining company did not break the law by helping to bank…
Bryan Metzger
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The FEC closes the file on a Jeb Bush-linked PAC's 6-year-old complaint against the Trump campaign
The saga began in December 2015, when lawyers for a Jeb Bush-linked PAC accused the Trump campaign …
Bryan Metzger
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A pro-Trump group bought Facebook ads for Green party candidates during the 2018 midterm elections to try and split the Democratic vote, The Guardian reported
The conservative marketing firm Rally Forge was behind the ads, part of an apparent effort to split…
Kelly McLaughlin,Jake Lahut
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump doesn't expect to have a transfer of power because he's going to win the election
The former White House press secretary also said many Americans would be "questioning the final res…
Oma Seddiq
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Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election, drawing fierce pushback from Democrats and Mitt Romney
"We're going to have to see what happens," Trump told reporters. The US has not had a violent trans…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Trump has one of his most authoritarian weeks yet as president as the US surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths
In free, democratic societies, it's not normal for leaders to threaten deadly violence against thei…
John Haltiwanger
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'This is not a novel concept': FEC chair brings the hammer down on foreign influence after Trump's widely panned interview on the same topic
The chair of the Federal Election Commission issued a scathing statement for "anyone running for pu…
David Choi
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Trump's willingness to accept political dirt from foreign spies makes it 'open season' on US elections, intelligence veterans say
"Our adversaries are not opposed to Republicans, nor are they opposed to Democrats," Price said. "T…