$1 Million Mystery Gift to Trump Inauguration Traced to Conservative Legal Activists
One of the largest contributions to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee in 2016 appears to have been orchestrated by a set of powerful conservative legal activists who have since been put in the driver’s seat of the administration's push to select and nominate federal judges. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Dark money becomes focal point of Maine House primary
A 501(c)(4) group has spent roughly $300,000 on ads that appear to support a Democratic House candidate ahead of Tuesday’s Maine primary. Nobody knows who’s behind that money.
Groups pour more than $100,000 in dark money into South Carolina House race
501(c)(4) groups with reported interests in the energy industry spent thousands backing GOP candidates in South Carolina’s 4th District.
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