Seattle citizens spoke loud and clear when they overwhelmingly passed the Honest Elections Seattle Initiative. The court should prioritize the First Amendment rights of city residents, by giving more people an opportunity to have their voices heard in our democracy.

If candidates are not punished for working hand-in-hand with super PACs, campaigns will stretch the legal boundaries until there is no way to prevent the corruption of candidates beholden to big money.

The Honest Ads Act is a useful bipartisan disclosure response to the foreign interference we witnessed in 2016, and would make it more difficult for foreign actors to target American voters.

Despite telling donors that it would support conservative candidates with the funds raised, only three percent of The Presidential Coalition’s 2017 and 2018 spending went towards the direct political activity, according to a CLC research report.

Although Special Counsel Robert Mueller declined to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump Jr., Mueller provided a roadmap by which the FEC could pursue civil penalties.

The NRA’s complicated scheme had the effect of evading campaign contribution limits and shielding millions of dollars of political spending – including up to $25 million coordinated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign – from public scrutiny.

Missouri politicians should listen to their voters, who supported fair maps by an almost 2-to-1 margin in November.

Details uncovered in the investigation lay bare the extent to which Russia conducted an organized campaign of information warfare against America with the goal of spreading chaos and distrust in our elections.

Justices will hear arguments today about the intentional manipulation of voting maps by Republicans in North Carolina and Democrats in Maryland for partisan political gain.

The FEC fined the Cruz fore Senate campaign $35,000 for inaccurately reporting the source of campaign loans totaling $1,064,000, stemming from a complaint filed by CLC and Democracy 21 in 2016.

CLC's statement on Gill v. Whitford on the day Paul Smith argued the partisan gerrymandering case at the Supreme Court.

A record fine was handed down by the FEC after a complaint by CLC showed that a Chinese-owned corporation illegally contributed $1.3 million to a 2016 presidential campaign.

This landmark bill would make our government more accessible, transparent, and responsive to citizens.

In a new film release, CLC goes to North Carolina, ground zero in today’s fight over gerrymandering, to tell the stories of people impacted by the extreme partisan bias of the state’s electoral maps.

It is time for the U.S. Supreme Court to act. They have a golden opportunity to enforce the Constitution in a manner that will rein in partisan gerrymandering – done by both parties – and create ground rules that safeguard the fundamental right of all Americans to have their vote count.

Campaign finance law prohibits coordination between candidates and outside groups like the NRA. In order to preserve their independence, FEC rules limit how a vendor may work for both a candidate and an outside group supporting that candidate.

An audio recording indicates that a top NRA official told a Montana Senate candidate that the NRA would be spending in the Montana race, described the content of the ads and the timing, and the candidate assented to that suggestion.

CLC uncovered evidence that the NRA routed nearly $1 million through shell corporations to unlawfully coordinate with the Hawley for Senate campaign in Missouri.

The NRA can legally make unlimited expenditures to support the Trump campaign only if the organizations are completely independent. But if the same people buying ads for the Trump campaign are also placing the NRA’s pro-Trump ads, then the NRA’s spending is not at all independent.

Declining to hear this case protects the ability of state lawmakers across the country to use disclosure laws as a tool to promote transparency in elections.