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Trump Media is quietly storing at least one of its data centers in a facility owned by a longtime Republican donor and media mogul

Trump Media often redacts the location of its data centers, but a footnote in a contract pointed to the location of one.

Fortune

Trump nominates wrestling billionaire Linda McMahon as education secretary

The billionaire former WWE CEO served as the head of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019

The Independent UK

Reclusive billionaire heir Timothy Mellon gave $125 million to help elect Trump, even more than Elon Musk

A grandson of industrialist baron Andrew Mellon, he once railed against federal entitlements, which he said make Black people “belligerent.”

Fortune

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Dark money floods Ohio race with disinfo

Mitch McConnell-allied PAC, crypto donors "flooding" airwaves in Ohio race between Sherrod Brown and Bernie Moreno

Salon

The far-right megadonor pouring over $10m into the US election to defeat ‘the woke regime’

Records show Thomas Klingenstein is at the forefront of donors pushing polarizing politics in the Republican party

The Guardian - US

More than $200m: How Kamala Harris is winning the small donors battle

What is driving small donors to pledge record amounts of money in support of Harris’s bid for the White House?

Al Jazeera

After Bowman loss, AIPAC targets Bush

"It's going to be a very grueling two months for her," expert says

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Trump’s dark money gets darker

The Supreme Court’s reactionary rulings have allowed for Trump’s unprecedented assault on U.S. democracy

Salon

U.S. oil and gas production is booming. So are the industry’s donations to its GOP allies

The biggest recipient of campaign donations from the industry isn’t Donald Trump or President Joe Biden, it’s a Texas House member who represents part of the Permian Basin.

The Texas Tribune

U.S. Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are the Industry’s Donations to Its GOP Allies.

Not Donald Trump. Not Ted Cruz. But a little known Republican from West Texas ranks as the top recipient of fossil fuel money.

Capital & Main

Revealed: Congress backers of Gaza war received most from pro-Israel donors

Guardian analysis finds top recipients of pro-Israel contributions in last elections were centrist Democrats who defeated progressives in primaries

The Guardian - US

Republican primary spending projected to approach or surpass $1 billion

With a big field, a former president, well-heeled politicians and two billionaires running, this is likely to be the most money ever spent to win the GOP presidential nomination.

WEKU

These anti-ESG Republicans are longtime supporters of green power

Some key Republican senators who’ve slammed Wall Street’s efforts to tackle climate change are themselves big supporters of green energy.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The dark undertones of conservative Peter Thiel’s growing political donations

Since 1997, billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist Peter Thiel has donated tens of millions of dollars to political candidates and causes in U.S. elections, the nonpartisan nonprofit Open Secrets revealed. In the 2022 midterm elections alone, he donated around $32.5 million to the Senate campaigns and political…

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The Guardian - US

The biggest losers in the US midterm elections? Republican mega-donors

Donors like Peter Thiel poured millions into candidates that no amount of money could sell to voters while Mehmet Oz self-funded a failed run

Axios

Nearly 70% of voters decided on midterm candidates before September

68% of registered voters said they made up their mind in Tuesday's elections before September.

The Guardian - US

Unregulated, unrestrained: era of the online political ad comes to midterms

Parties once focused on TV but now a billion-dollar effort embraces the highly targeted and almost rule-free digital world

Ballotpedia

Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 39

September 15, 2022

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Al Jazeera

Why did Trump endorse the Democrat who led the impeachment probe?

Trump is accused of trying to ‘fool’ voters in an election that will decide the Democratic candidate for Congress.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Eric Schmitt runs as a fighter and pushes electability message in bid for Senate

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s self-styled pork steak-eating, Busch-drinking attorney general could be on the verge of a big promotion.

Ballotpedia

Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 31

July 14, 2022

Chicago Sun-Times

Crypto billionaire’s PAC spends nearly $1 million in Illinois Democratic congressional primaries

A PAC bankrolled by crypto billionaire Samuel Bankman-Fried poured $500,065 into television ads to elect Jonathan Jackson to Congress from the 1st District.

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