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Voters have a right to know which wealthy special interests are spending big money to secretly influence our vote and our government to rig the political system in their favor.
Campaign Legal Center advocates for passing and enforcing strong campaign finance reforms that help guarantee a democracy responsive to the people.
These reform solutions include ensuring transparency in both the funding of and spending by political campaigns, placing reasonable limits on that funding and encouraging states and localities to adopt public financing of elections. Campaign Legal Center helps enact such policies at the state, local and federal levels, and works to ensure that the Federal Election Commission enforces current campaign finance laws. Campaign Legal Center also defends laws that ensure voters’ right to know who is spending to influence their vote and our government.
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The AI Industry’s Influence Operation: How Big Money Undermines Democracy, and What Can Be Done About It
On the Docket for Campaign Finance
Challenging FCC Guidance Enabling Discounted Ad Rates for Super PACs (Brown et al. v. FCC et al.)
Challenging Government-Funded Propaganda and Hatch Act Violations
Upholding Transparency in State Elections (Americans for Prosperity v. Albence)
Key Initatives
Spotlighting the Trump Administration’s Corrupt Transactions
Recent Campaign Finance Cases and Actions
In September 2026, Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that President Donald Trump violated federal campaign finance law — namely the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) — by raising and spending “soft money” via MAGA Inc., a PAC with which Trump has long been associated.
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Campaign Legal Center and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed an amicus brief defending Act 11, a first-of-its-kind state law that prevents corporations and other entities from spending money in elections.
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Advocacy organization Students for Life Action filed a First Amendment challenge to South Dakota’s on-advertisement donor disclaimer law. Campaign Legal Center has joined the case as an amicus curiae to defend the law against the latest appeal, filing a brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in support of the law’s constitutionality.
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