On the 10-year anniversary of Citizens United v. FEC, we reflect on the decision that has led to an explosion in secret spending in our elections, and rigged politics in favor of special interests. 

To stop the explosion of secret election spending by wealthy special interests, the FEC must have a quorum to protect the integrity of our elections.

The more we learned about our broken political system over the years, the more determined we became to take it back.

In the 2018 elections, 35 of the 57 county election candidates chose to participate in the matching funds program, and of the 35 candidates that participated, 24 candidates qualified for matching funds. 

In a recent article published in The New York Times, CLC President Trevor Potter describes the high stakes of protecting our elections from foreign interference.

North Dakota legislators are studying the implementation of a new constitutional mandate that could make their state a leader in election spending transparency.

The New York State attorney general issued a subpoena for documents related to the NRA's illegal coordination scheme, which CLC documented in complaints filed with the FEC.  

The Baltimore City Council gave final approval to an ordinance that would create a new public financing program for candidates seeking local office.

President Trump was ordered by a New York court to personally pay $2 million in damages for improperly using the Trump Foundation to support his 2016 presidential run.

The first stage of the impeachment inquiry has revealed how career diplomats were troubled by the ability of Fruman, Parnas, and Giuliani to help engineer a corrupt shadow foreign policy in Ukraine.

A majority of American voters - across party lines - rate corruption in our political system as the most serious problem facing the country. 

CLC and ECU filed a complaint with the FEC on October 25, 2019, alleging that during the 2018 election, AFA made up to $6.6 million in illegally coordinated expenditures.

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen appears to have used campaign funds for a family trip and for luxury hotels in New York and Miami.

Three former FEC commissioners have taken to the pages of the Wall Street Journal with misleading attacks on common-sense disclosure proposals.

For years, politicians have publicly declared their support for reducing the influence of money on our political system. But privately, those same politicians have run campaigns that exploited loopholes in the law—and, in some cases, created new ones.

The stunning arrest of Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas on criminal campaign finance charges arose directly from CLC’s complaint to the FEC last year.

CLC hosted “Yes, Asking Foreign Governments for Political Favors Breaks the Law,” a conference call on the president’s recent campaign finance violations and abuses of power.

Join us for the call-in event, "Yes, Asking Foreign Governments for Political Favors Breaks the Law."

Michigan voters have completely flipped the system of gerrymandering on its head, giving power back to regular people, so it was bound to upset the politicians in power.