We should not lose sight of the message Mueller did deliver with this investigation: a foreign adversary tried to subvert American democracy in 2016 by executing a massive influence campaign, and they would do it again if given the chance.

Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum Joins CLC as Senior Advisor on Foreign Interference and Online Threats

Super PACs and dark money groups raise and spend substantial amounts of money — often out pacing candidates’ campaign committees — intended to influence the outcome of U.S. elections. But these groups are all subject to different kinds of rules about fundraising and spending, and raise different...

CLC Action filed suit on behalf of Giffords against the FEC for failing to announce any action against the NRA for using shell corporations to coordinate campaign spending with seven federal candidates spanning three election cycles from 2014-2018.

A joint congressional inquiry is demanding that the NRA share all internal documents related to the accusations.

Earlier this month, the Campaign Legal Center filed complaints alleging that three super PACs — one supporting Hillary Clinton and two supporting Donald Trump — have violated federal election law by coordinating with the two presidential candidates.

In a huge win for reform advocates, the Washington Supreme Court unanimously confirmed the constitutionality of Seattle’s innovative public financing program. 

The list-swap loophole makes it easier for reporting violations to happen. CLC has called on the FEC to clarify that all swaps must be reported. 

Trump suggests that there is nothing wrong with a foreign government providing an American candidate information on a political opponent. This is a disturbing response.

In late June 2018, President Trump flew to Wisconsin, headlined a closed-door fundraiser at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, and then whisked off to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the planned Foxconn manufacturing plant.

The Canadian CEO of steel-tube manufacturer Zekelman Industries, Barry Zekelman, has spent millions of dollars to advance those interests in the US.

A court of appeals wrote an opinion this week rejecting a legal challenge brought by the Libertarian National Committee on contributions to political parties.

CLC urges the FEC to craft rules to prevent the abuse of accounts that, because of inaction by the FEC, both major parties use like slush funds.

DOJ announced the indictment of U.S. entertainer and businessman Pras Michel and Malaysian financier Jho Low on charges of conspiracy and fraud, involving a scheme to make and conceal foreign campaign contributions.

Every Voice and the Win/Win Network found that 84% of contributors in Seattle’s 2017 election were first-time donors to city campaigns, and that 71% of these new donors used Democracy Vouchers.  

In the years since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision paved the way for super PACs, politicians have found new ways to work closely with those supposedly independent groups.

In May 2019, CLC hosted "Foreign Interference in Our Elections: What We Really Learned From Mueller's Report," a conversation highlighting the alarming new details about the extent to which Russia worked to confuse, divide and infiltrate our democracy months before the 2016 election.