| 2026-10-26 | FEC Electronic Filing System Goes Offline a Week Before the Midterms
3 src Federal Election Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | High Time Nebraska and Cornhusker Choice, Super PACs Registered After the Pre-General Books Closed, Report Ad Buys for Nebraska Senate Candidates Mike Marvin and Robin Richards | | reported |
| 2026-10-23 | The Intercept: Fellowship PAC Routed $600,000 Through Bo Hines's Nxum Group to Support Democrats Torres, Goodlander and Warner
1 src Bo Hines · Tether · Cantor Fitzgerald · Ritchie Torres · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Kagan Tells Catholic University Law Audience the Court Has "Blinded Itself" to the Effects of Its Election Rulings, Citing Campaign-Finance Money as "a Nightmare"
2 src Elena Kagan | | reported |
| 2026-10-20 | ProPublica: FBI Purge Ended the Navatek Capitol Hill Bribery Probe
2 src Lindsey Graham · Susan Collins · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-15 | FEC Q3 reports confirm Musk's $158M to SLF, $82.8M cash to America PAC, $20M to CLF and $10M to Lone Star Liberty PAC; $74.8M more to America PAC Oct 6-14
3 src Elon Musk · America PAC | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-14 | Aaron Day's StarkFreedom PAC Says It Will Boost Third-Party Candidates to Cost the GOP the Senate
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-10-14 | Supreme Court Stays Fourth Circuit Order Giving FCC 48 Hours to Decide Candidates' Ad-Rate Challenge
2 src Federal Communications Commission · Sherrod Brown · National Republican Congressional Committee · Sonia Sotomayor · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-12 | NYT: Musk Has Given $276 Million to Republican Groups Since July, About $366 Million This Cycle
1 src Elon Musk · America PAC · Ken Paxton | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-08 | Chief Justice Roberts Stays Fourth Circuit Order Directing FCC to Resolve Challengers' Application by Noon Oct. 9; Response Due Oct. 10
5 src D. John Sauer · Federal Communications Commission · Sherrod Brown · National Republican Senatorial Committee · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-18 | Trump-Aligned Super PACs Have Reserved Over $150 Million in Midterm Ads in Two Weeks, Much in Trump-Won Seats
4 src MAGA Inc. · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-04 | Supreme Court Grants Stay of Fourth Circuit Ruling That Set Aside FCC Party Ad-Rate Notice, Citing Likely No Jurisdiction
2 src Federal Communications Commission · Sherrod Brown · National Republican Congressional Committee · National Republican Senatorial Committee · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-04 | Trump Tells Reporters in the Oval Office He Is Allocating Probably $400 to $500 Million of MAGA Inc. Money
1 src Donald Trump · MAGA Inc. · Campaign Legal Center | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-30 | New York Times: Political Influencer Payments Fall Into a Legal Gray Area in 2026 Midterms
1 src New York Times | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Michigan Democratic Party Files Campaign-Finance Complaint Against AG Nominee Doug Lloyd Over Seven-Month Contribution Gap
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-31 | GEO Group Subsidiary GEO Reentry Services Has Given Trump-Aligned Super PAC MAGA Inc. $4.4 Million; Latest Payment July 31, 2026
4 src MAGA Inc. | | reported |
| 2026-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Limits on Party Coordinated Spending in NRSC v. FEC, Overruling Colorado II
1 src Brett Kavanaugh · Elena Kagan · National Republican Senatorial Committee · Federal Election Commission · +1 | | reported |
| 2026-03-30 | FCC Media Bureau Notice DA 26-300 Says Favorable Candidate Ad Rates Cover Party Coordinated Ads and Joint-Fundraising Committees
2 src Federal Communications Commission · FCC Media Bureau · Sherrod Brown · National Republican Congressional Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-12 | AI Industry Super PACs Pour $125 Million Into 2026 Midterms to Block Regulation, Targeting Candidates With Hidden Influence Campaign
7 src OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-03 | AI Industry Super PAC Backed by OpenAI Insiders and Palantir Pours Millions Into Blocking AI-Regulation Candidate Alex Bores
5 src OpenAI · Palantir Technologies · Greg Brockman · Joe Lonsdale · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-27 | AI Industry Super PACs Deploy $125 Million to Target Pro-Regulation Candidates in 2026 Midterms
7 src Greg Brockman · OpenAI · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-02 | Dell Family Announces $6.25 Billion Donation to Trump Accounts in Largest Private Child Investment
4 src Michael Dell · Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department |
| reported |
| 2025-11-25 | House Judiciary Democrats Release Report Exposing Trump Family's $800 Million Cryptocurrency Empire Built on Foreign Influence and Self-Dealing
4 src Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +17 |
| reported |
| 2025-08-27 | Silicon Valley Launches $200 Million Super PAC to Block AI Regulations Ahead of Midterms
3 src Meta · Andreessen Horowitz · Greg Brockman · OpenAI |
| reported |
| 2025-07-31 | Elon Musk Continues $277 Million Donation Spree Supporting Trump and Republican Candidates
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · MAGA Inc. · +1 |
| disputed |
| 2025-07-10 | Trump's Inaugural Fund Received $19M from Fossil Fuel Industry
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Chevron · ExxonMobil · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2025-06-24 | Emergency contractor donates $10,000 to Florida GOP, receives $6.2 million in contracts hours later
3 src Ron DeSantis · Florida Division of Emergency Management |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-06 | Communist Party Adviser Purchases Trump Memecoin for VIP Dinner Access
6 src Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Adam Schiff · Elizabeth Warren |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-28 | Who won a seat at Trump's crypto dinner?
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-22 | Trump Hosts Controversial $TRUMP Memecoin Crypto Dinner
4 src Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Sean Casten · Adam Smith · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-15 | Political committees have spent $675K at Trump properties since Trump's reelection
3 src Donald Trump · Republican National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2025-05-06 | Trump's Cryptocurrency Dinner Reveals Majority Foreign Buyers
3 src Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Jamie Raskin |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-30 | FEC Loses Policymaking Quorum After Commissioner Resignation
3 src Federal Election Commission · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2025-04-16 | Elon Musk Donates to GOP Lawmakers Targeting Judicial Oversight
4 src Elon Musk · Chuck Grassley · Lauren Boebert | | confirmed |
| 2025-03-30 | Musk Distributes $1 Million Payments in Controversial Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Intervention
4 src Elon Musk · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · Josh Kaul |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case
3 src Donald Trump · Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-05 | Musk's America PAC launches $1 million TV ad buy touting Trump's first 6 weeks in office
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · America PAC |
| confirmed |
| 2025-02-28 | Trump Misses Transition Donor Disclosure Deadline, Declines Federal Funding
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Susie Wiles · General Services Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-31 | Federal Prosecutors Withdraw from Andy Ogles Criminal Investigation
4 src Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump inauguration raises record $251.4 million from corporations
3 src Trump Inaugural Committee | | confirmed |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun's $75 Million Crypto Investment Signals Complex Trump Financial Network
4 src Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-17 | Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Ripple |
| confirmed |
| 2024-12-31 | Healthcare Industry Spends Record $744 Million on Federal Lobbying in 2024, Pharmaceutical Sector Leads at $384 Million
4 src PhRMA · American Medical Association · American Hospital Association · Health insurance industry · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-11-05 | Record $1.9 Billion in Dark Money Floods 2024 Federal Election Cycle
2 src Charles Schwab | | confirmed |
| 2024-10-01 | Musk Coordinates Political Operations Through America PAC and X Platform Information Warfare
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · America PAC · Twitter |
| confirmed |
| 2024-08-13 | FEC Votes 6-0 to Dismiss Complaint Over DCCC Recount-Account Payments to Elias Law Group
3 src Federal Election Commission | | confirmed |
| 2024-05-21 | Trump campaign begins accepting cryptocurrency donations
4 src Trump Campaign | | confirmed |
| 2023-12-31 | Northrop Grumman Spends $10.86 Million on Lobbying with 29 Revolving Door Officials
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2023-11-02 | Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted on All Counts in 'One of the Biggest Financial Frauds in American History'
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2023-05-01 | Tennessee Renews $168 Million CoreCivic Prison Contract Despite Deaths and Fines, Exposing Corporate Capture
3 src CoreCivic · Bill Lee |
| confirmed |
| 2022-12-31 | Arabella Advisors Network Raises Record $1.35 Billion in Dark Money
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2022-12-15 | Trump launches first NFT collection one month after campaign announcement
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization | | confirmed |
| 2022-12-12 | FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Charged with Campaign Finance Violations and $8 Billion Fraud
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-06-13 | January 6th Committee Exposes "Big Rip-Off" - $250 Million Fraudulent Fundraising Scheme
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Zoe Lofgren | | confirmed |
| 2022-04-15 | Trump Endorses Vance Following Thiel's ~$15 Million Cumulative Investment in Protect Ohio Values
3 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Donald Trump Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 2022-04-01 | Peter Thiel Provides $15 Million to J.D. Vance's Ohio Senate Campaign
3 src J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2021-06-03 | FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme
4 src Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney |
| confirmed |
| 2021-04-07 | Warrant Affidavit: Navatek's $150,000 Shell-Company Check to 1820 PAC
2 src Susan Collins · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | reported |
| 2020-09-14 | HHS Spends $300 Million in Taxpayer Funds on "Defeating Despair" COVID Ad Campaign Timed to Promote Trump Before Election
4 src Donald Trump · Alex Azar |
| confirmed |
| 2018-11-29 | Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Lying to Congress About Trump Tower Moscow Timeline
4 src Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Robert Mueller |
| confirmed |
| 2018-06-14 | New York AG Sues Trump Foundation for "Persistent Illegal Conduct" and Coordinating with Campaign
3 src Barbara Underwood · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Eric Trump · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-05 | Trump's CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney Shuts Down Equifax Investigation, Exposing Regulatory Capture
3 src Mick Mulvaney · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Equifax · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-23 | Private Prison Stocks Soar as CoreCivic, GEO Donate $2.8M to Trump
3 src CoreCivic · GEO Group · Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-28 | Trump Uses Charity Foundation for Iowa Campaign Event, Violating Tax Law
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Corey Lewandowski |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | NRA Spends Record $30-55 Million Supporting Trump, FBI Investigates Russian Money Laundering
4 src National Rifle Association · Donald Trump · Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-28 | Trump Signs Letter of Intent for $1 Billion Moscow Tower While Running for President
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Cohen · Vladimir Putin | | confirmed |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican National Committee · Anthony Kennedy · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Koch Network Spends $407 Million in Coordinated 2012 Election Campaign
3 src Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity | | confirmed |
| 2010-03-26 | SpeechNow.org v. FEC Appeals Court Decision Creates Super PACs with Unlimited Contribution Authority
3 src Federal Election Commission · U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-27 | Obama Criticizes Citizens United at State of Union, Alito Responds 'Not True'
4 src Barack Obama · Samuel Alito · John Roberts · Ruth Bader Ginsburg · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-21 | Supreme Court Citizens United Decision Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Spending
7 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Election Commission · Anthony Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 2009-12-01 | Arizona SB 1070 Immigration Law Drafted at ALEC Meeting with CCA Executives - Direct Quid Pro Quo for Immigrant Detention Profits
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · Jan Brewer · GEO Group · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate
3 src House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Pfizer · Merck |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-29 | Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money
3 src House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-02 | Massey Energy CEO Spends $3 Million to Elect Judge in Case Against His Company
11 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-20 | Clinton Pardons Fugitive Marc Rich Amid Corruption Allegations
4 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 2000-03-06 | Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System
3 src George W. Bush · Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Corporate PAC Explosion Post-Buckley
5 src Supreme Court Justices |
| confirmed |
| 1998-05-01 | ALEC Adopts Paycheck Protection Act to Defund Democratic Party by Restricting Union Political Activity
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Scott Walker |
| confirmed |
| 1997-01-01 | Financial Industry Spends $300 Million on Deregulation Lobbying and Campaign Contributions
4 src Banking industry · Democratic Party · Republican Party · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1996-06-18 | Chinese Military Intelligence Funnels Campaign Donations Through Johnny Chung
4 src Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1996-04-29 | Buddhist Temple Fundraising Event Generates Illegal Campaign Contributions
4 src Al Gore · Democratic National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1996-02-26 | Lincoln Bedroom Fundraising Scandal Reveals White House Donor Access Program
3 src Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1995-01-01 | K Street Project Systematically Transforms Washington Lobbying Infrastructure
3 src Tom DeLay · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1989-04-14 | Senate Ethics Committee Opens Keating Five Investigation
3 src John McCain · John Glenn · Alan Cranston · Donald Riegle · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | National Association of Business PACs Founded to Coordinate Corporate Political Money
2 src |
| confirmed |
| 1976-12-31 | Corporate PAC Explosion: 433 New Corporate PACs Formed in Post-Buckley Era
4 src Corporate America · Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Election Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Money Is Speech in Buckley v. Valeo
7 src U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Byron White | | confirmed |
| 1975-04-14 | Federal Election Commission Begins Operations, Institutionalizing Corporate PAC Framework
2 src Federal Election Commission · Gerald Ford |
| confirmed |
| 1974-10-15 | FECA Amendments Enable Corporate PAC Formation, Triggering 1,600% Growth
2 src U.S. Congress · Federal Election Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1963-08-01 | Business-Industry Political Action Committee Founded as First Corporate PAC
3 src National Association of Manufacturers |
| confirmed |
| 1943-06-25 | Smith-Connally Act Criminalizes Union Political Contributions, Spawns First PACs
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Mine Workers · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1912-11-05 | Montana Voters Pass Corrupt Practices Act Banning Corporate Political Spending
3 src Anaconda Copper Mining Company |
| confirmed |
| 1896-11-03 | McKinley Victory Establishes Mark Hanna's Corporate Fundraising Model
3 src William McKinley · Standard Oil · John D. Rockefeller · Republican National Committee | | confirmed |
| 1896-07-09 | William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1884-11-04 | Cleveland Election Marks Shift Toward Corporate Campaign Financing
3 src Grover Cleveland · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |