FEC Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub sponsored a symposium on September 17, 2019, on the topic of digital disinformation and the threat to democracy.

CLC’s founder and president Trevor Potter delivered the Constitution Day lecture at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana.

The New York Public Finance Reform Commission met in Albany, NY to hold the third of five public hearings on the development of the state's small donor public financing system.

Lawmakers in San Francisco have moved to pass a proposed ordinance to update the city’s matching funds program.

After the CLC/Axios investigation and the Trump campaign’s admonition of the Presidential Coalition, the group’s average daily contributions plummeted.

The next presidential primary debate is Thursday, September 12th on ABC and Univision. Absent from most of the first two debates was a discussion about what candidates would do to reform our broken campaign finance system.

CLC has asked DOJ to investigate whether former U.S. Representative Jeff Miller violated the revolving door ban by registering as a foreign agent months after leaving Congress.

Bill de Blasio accepted tens of thousands of dollars in excessive contributions, and failed to report the identity of those contributors.

Donors who gave to support a candidate’s run for office probably didn’t expect that their money would be used years later to advance Saudi Arabia’s interests.

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.