#Campaign-Finance
Events indexed under #Campaign-Finance — 78 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-12 | AI Industry Super PACs Pour $125 Million Into 2026 Midterms to Block Regulation, Targeting Candidates With Hidden Influence Campaign OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | AI Industry Super PAC Backed by OpenAI Insiders and Palantir Pours Millions Into Blocking AI-Regulation Candidate Alex Bores OpenAI · Palantir Technologies · Greg Brockman · Joe Lonsdale · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-27 | AI Industry Super PACs Deploy $125 Million to Target Pro-Regulation Candidates in 2026 Midterms 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 Michael Dell · Susan 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 Jamie Raskin · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Trump Family · +22 | reported | |
| 2025-08-27 | Silicon Valley Launches $200 Million Super PAC to Block AI Regulations Ahead of Midterms Meta · Andreessen Horowitz · Greg Brockman · OpenAI | reported | |
| 2025-07-31 | Elon Musk Continues $277 Million Donation Spree Supporting Trump and Republican Candidates Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · MAGA Inc. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | Trump's Inaugural Fund Received $19M from Fossil Fuel Industry Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Chevron · ExxonMobil · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Emergency contractor donates $10,000 to Florida GOP, receives $6.2 million in contracts hours later IRG Global Emergency Management · Ron DeSantis · Republican Party of Florida · Access Restoration Services (ARS) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | Communist Party Adviser Purchases Trump Memecoin for VIP Dinner Access Donald Trump · He Tianying · Justin Sun · Adam Schiff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Who won a seat at Trump's crypto dinner? Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Foreign Cryptocurrency Investors | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | Trump Hosts Controversial $TRUMP Memecoin Crypto Dinner Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Rep. Sean Casten · Rep. Adam Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-15 | Political committees have spent $675K at Trump properties since Trump's reelection Donald Trump · Republican National Committee · Republican House Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-06 | Trump's Cryptocurrency Dinner Reveals Majority Foreign Buyers Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Jamie Raskin | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-30 | FEC Loses Policymaking Quorum After Commissioner Resignation Federal Election Commission · Commissioner Allen Dickerson (resigned) · Commissioner Ellen Weintraub (fired by Trump) · Commissioner Sean Cooksey (resigned) · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Elon Musk Donates to GOP Lawmakers Targeting Judicial Oversight Elon Musk · Chuck Grassley · Eli Crane · Lauren Boebert · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-30 | Musk Distributes $1 Million Payments in Controversial Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Intervention Elon Musk · Brad Schimel · Susan Crawford · Nicholas Jacobs · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump pardons Nikola founder Trevor Milton in securities fraud case 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 Donald Trump · Elon Musk · America PAC | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-28 | Trump Misses Transition Donor Disclosure Deadline, Declines Federal Funding Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Susie Wiles · General Services Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Federal Prosecutors Withdraw from Andy Ogles Criminal Investigation Andy Ogles · U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee · Department of Justice · John P. Taddei · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump inauguration raises record $251.4 million from corporations Trump Inaugural Committee · Pilgrim's Pride Corp. ($5 million) · Ripple Labs ($4.9 million) · Warren Stephens · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun's $75 Million Crypto Investment Signals Complex Trump Financial Network Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Kraken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-31 | Healthcare Industry Spends Record $744 Million on Federal Lobbying in 2024, Pharmaceutical Sector Leads at $384 Million PhRMA · American Medical Association · American Hospital Association · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-05 | Record $1.9 Billion in Dark Money Floods 2024 Federal Election Cycle Dark money groups · Fidelity · Charles Schwab · Vanguard · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-01 | Musk Coordinates Political Operations Through America PAC and X Platform Information Warfare Elon Musk · Donald Trump · America PAC · Twitter | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-21 | Trump campaign begins accepting cryptocurrency donations Trump Campaign · Cryptocurrency industry | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Northrop Grumman Spends $10.86 Million on Lobbying with 29 Revolving Door Officials 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' Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · U.S. Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-01 | Tennessee Renews $168 Million CoreCivic Prison Contract Despite Deaths and Fines, Exposing Corporate Capture CoreCivic · Bill Lee · Tennessee Department of Correction · Tennessee State Building Commission | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-31 | Arabella Advisors Network Raises Record $1.35 Billion in Dark Money Arabella Advisors · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hansjörg Wyss · Eric Kessler | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-15 | Trump launches first NFT collection one month after campaign announcement Donald Trump · Trump Organization | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-12 | FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Charged with Campaign Finance Violations and $8 Billion Fraud Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · Changpeng Zhao · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-13 | January 6th Committee Exposes "Big Rip-Off" - $250 Million Fraudulent Fundraising Scheme Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Save America PAC · House January 6th Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Trump Endorses Vance Following Thiel's $15 Million Strategic Political Investment Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Peter Thiel Provides $15 Million to J.D. Vance's Ohio Senate Campaign J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · protect-ohio-values-pac · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-03 | FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney · John Sarbanes | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-14 | HHS Spends $300 Million in Taxpayer Funds on "Defeating Despair" COVID Ad Campaign Timed to Promote Trump Before Election Michael Caputo · Donald Trump · Dennis Quaid · CeCe Winans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-29 | Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Lying to Congress About Trump Tower Moscow Timeline Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Dmitry Peskov · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-14 | New York AG Sues Trump Foundation for "Persistent Illegal Conduct" and Coordinating with Campaign 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 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 CoreCivic · GEO Group · Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-28 | Trump Uses Charity Foundation for Iowa Campaign Event, Violating Tax Law Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Corey Lewandowski | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | NRA Spends Record $30-55 Million Supporting Trump, FBI Investigates Russian Money Laundering 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 Donald Trump · Michael Cohen · Felix Sater · VTB Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-04-02 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Contribution Limits in McCutcheon v. FEC U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Shaun McCutcheon · Republican National Committee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Koch Network Spends $407 Million in Coordinated 2012 Election Campaign Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-03-26 | SpeechNow.org v. FEC Appeals Court Decision Creates Super PACs with Unlimited Contribution Authority David Keating · 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' Barack Obama · Samuel Alito · John Roberts · Ruth Bader Ginsburg · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-21 | Supreme Court Citizens United Decision Unleashes Unlimited Corporate Spending U.S. Supreme Court · Citizens United · Federal Election Commission · Justice Anthony Kennedy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-12-01 | Arizona SB 1070 Immigration Law Drafted at ALEC Meeting with CCA Executives - Direct Quid Pro Quo for Immigrant Detention Profits American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · Russell Pearce · Jan Brewer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-01 | Energy and Commerce Committee Members Receive $45M From Pharma During ACA Debate House Energy and Commerce Committee · Fred Upton · PhRMA · Pfizer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-29 | Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money Barney Frank · House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street · TARP | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Massey Energy CEO Spends $3 Million to Elect Judge in Case Against His Company Don Blankenship · Brent Benjamin · Hugh Caperton · Massey Energy Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-20 | Clinton Pardons Fugitive Marc Rich Amid Corruption Allegations Bill Clinton · Marc Rich · Denise Rich · Hillary Clinton | confirmed | |
| 2000-03-06 | Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System George W. Bush · Karl Rove · Mercer Reynolds · Thomas Scully · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Corporate PAC Explosion Post-Buckley Corporate PAC Strategists · Campaign Finance Lawyers · Political Fundraising Experts · Supreme Court Justices | confirmed | |
| 1998-05-01 | ALEC Adopts Paycheck Protection Act to Defund Democratic Party by Restricting Union Political Activity American Legislative Exchange Council · Corporate donors · state Republican legislators · Scott Walker | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | Financial Industry Spends $300 Million on Deregulation Lobbying and Campaign Contributions Banking industry · Insurance Industry · Securities Industry · Democratic Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1996-06-18 | Chinese Military Intelligence Funnels Campaign Donations Through Johnny Chung Johnny Chung · Ji Shengde · Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1996-04-29 | Buddhist Temple Fundraising Event Generates Illegal Campaign Contributions Al Gore · Maria Hsia · John Huang · Democratic National Committee | confirmed | |
| 1996-02-26 | Lincoln Bedroom Fundraising Scandal Reveals White House Donor Access Program Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee · Major Donors | confirmed | |
| 1995-01-01 | K Street Project Systematically Transforms Washington Lobbying Infrastructure Tom DeLay · Rick Santorum · Grover Norquist | confirmed | |
| 1989-04-14 | Senate Ethics Committee Opens Keating Five Investigation John McCain · John Glenn · Alan Cranston · Donald Riegle · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · First National Bank of Boston · Francis X. Bellotti · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | National Association of Business PACs Founded to Coordinate Corporate Political Money National Association of Business Political Action Committees | confirmed | |
| 1976-12-31 | Corporate PAC Explosion: 433 New Corporate PACs Formed in Post-Buckley Era 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 U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · James Buckley · Eugene McCarthy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-14 | Federal Election Commission Begins Operations, Institutionalizing Corporate PAC Framework Federal Election Commission · President Gerald Ford | confirmed | |
| 1974-10-15 | FECA Amendments Enable Corporate PAC Formation, Triggering 1,600% Growth U.S. Congress · Federal Election Commission | confirmed | |
| 1963-08-01 | Business-Industry Political Action Committee Founded as First Corporate PAC Business-Industry Political Action Committee · National Association of Manufacturers · BIPAC | confirmed | |
| 1943-06-25 | Smith-Connally Act Criminalizes Union Political Contributions, Spawns First PACs Howard W. Smith · Tom Connally · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Congress of Industrial Organizations · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1912-11-05 | Montana Voters Pass Corrupt Practices Act Banning Corporate Political Spending Montana voters · William A. Clark · F. Augustus Heinze · Marcus Daly · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1896-11-03 | McKinley Victory Establishes Mark Hanna's Corporate Fundraising Model William McKinley · Mark Hanna · Standard Oil · John D. Rockefeller · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1896-07-09 | William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power William Jennings Bryan · Democratic National Convention · Populist Party · Eastern banking interests · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1884-11-04 | Cleveland Election Marks Shift Toward Corporate Campaign Financing Grover Cleveland · James G. Blaine · U.S. Congress | confirmed |