In North Carolina, political committees and donors have helped to bankroll candidates and causes up and down the ballot. While the role of money in politics is well known to most voters, what might be unknown to some North Carolina voters is the fact that the largest individual donor in the state isn’t actually from …
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Last month, the bill attempting to ban taxpayer-funded lobbying appeared unlikely to make it out of the Texas House State Affairs Committee. The atmosphere has shifted in the last week, after so many people came to testify at a hearing for House Bill 749 that the meeting lasted until early the next morning. The sheer …
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated from it’s original date range of January 1, 2021-March 24, 2021 to include the entirety of Q1 views. When it comes to the money in Texas politics, these are the names that you are viewing the most so far this year. See the top five entities in each …
In Florida, voters cast ballots every two years in important contests to decide the future of the Sunshine State. With an executive government led by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state’s top leadership includes several individuals directly elected by Floridians every four years. But how well do you know your elected officials? Could you name the …
On both the state and federal level, Minnesota’s elected officials tend to trend in favor of Democratic candidates. Democrats control all five statewide elected offices, and both U.S. Senate seats; but only half of the state’s eight U.S. congressional seats. They also have control of the State House, while the GOP controls the State Senate. …