Hawaii’s pioneering, bipartisan effort to fight corporate and dark money spending in elections is a model for rest of country

Today, following Hawaii state legislators’ decision to pass a bill with bipartisan support to fight corporate and dark money spending in elections, Issue One released the following statement:

“With this legislation, Democratic and Republican legislators in Hawaii have blazed a new trail to curb the undue influence of big money in politics and end secret spending in campaigns,” said Issue One Director of Money in Politics Reform Michael Beckel.

Hawaii’s pioneering, bipartisan effort to fight corporate and dark money spending in elections is a model for rest of country #darkMoney #elections #Hawaii
Hawaii’s pioneering, bipartisan effort to fight corporate and dark money spending in elections is a model for rest of country - Issue One

Today, following Hawaii state legislators’ decision to pass a bill with bipartisan support to fight corporate and dark money spending in elections, Issue One released the following statement: “With this…

Issue One

OpenAI Secretly Lobbying For Gov Bailout

Wired article reveals OpenAI running covert propaganda campaign to influence public narrative around a US vs. China battle in AI the US must win in order to win support for a government bailout, because they're going broke.

Article: https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-to-fear-monger-about-china/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiv_LWUzEM8

#AI #Privacy #OpenAI #DarkMoney #Propaganda

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

WIRED
The Mercer family, led by Robert and Rebekah Mercer, contributed nearly $20 million in 2020 to a GOP-aligned dark money fund that obscures the ultimate destination of donor money.
The power and accountability angle is the part to watch.
#FollowTheMoney #CampaignFinance #DarkMoney
https://go.noligarchy.us/mercer-family-gave-nearly-20-million-to-gop-dark-mastodon
Mercer family gave nearly $20 million to GOP dark money fund in 2020

The Mercers' donation, delivered through their family foundation, went to the Donors Trust, according to a new 990 disclosure form.

NOLIGARCHY.US

"The Concord Fund — Leo’s confirmation-campaign vehicle — has given RAGA $18.8 million since 2014, including $2 million in the first half of 2024, making it RAGA’s largest single donor. Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute, and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers have written six-figure checks. The circuit closes at every connection point."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"CRC Advisors, the firm Leo controls, took in $24.9 million from Leo’s 85 Fund in 2023, with $80 million flowing from the network to CRC since Leo took over the firm in 2020.

The fossil fuel industry’s entry into this network runs through the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has received $5.8 million from oil-and-gas companies and their lobbying groups since 2020 alone."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #BigOil
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"The Trust gave $153 million to Leo’s Rule of Law Trust in 2021. The Rule of Law Trust gave $36.3 million in grants to allied organizations in 2020 alone, with the Concord Fund — formerly the Judicial Crisis Network, the organization that ran the campaigns to confirm Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett — as the largest single beneficiary."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has tracked the pipeline across multiple investigations. Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust, established in 2020, controls a $1.6 billion dark-money fund."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #DarkMoney #oil #gas #FossilFuel #BigOil
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"The seats from which Roberts now operates this mechanism were purchased. I use the word with care. They were purchased through a documented dark-money pipeline that runs from the fossil fuel industry through the Republican Attorneys General Association and the Federalist Society‘s network into judicial confirmation campaigns. The receipts are public."

~ Mike Brock

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #corruption #FederalistSociety #DarkMoney
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https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-industrys-court-in-a-stolen-republic

The Industry’s Court in a Stolen Republic

A Crisis Dispatch

Notes from the Circus
Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges “Healthy Skepticism” of Climate Science

As congressional Republicans accuse climate scholars and lawyers of colluding to influence the judiciary, a symposium hosted by a center funded by the fossil fuel industry educates judges about free-market views of climate science.

ProPublica

#Starmer lied his way to power, with #DarkMoney. He ran a #HierarchyOfRacism in the #LabourParty, purged Jewish members for anti-zionism, binged on #freebies.

In power, Starmer:
^ starved kids
^ froze grannies
^ endorsed cutting water to civilians
^ shared intelligence with genociders
^ criminalised opponents of #genocide as "terrorist"
^ appointed a #paedophile-adjacent ambassador
^ restricts #TrialByJury

But now Starmer has the cheek to call #ZackPolanski unfit to lead. 😡 #YCMTSU.

#ukpol