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Swamp Watch / Topics / Campaign finance and super PACs
TopicCampaign finance and super PACs
Campaign finance is the money that pays for American elections: contributions to candidates, which federal law caps, and spending by super PACs, which it does not. The largest checks now go to super PACs, which can take unlimited sums from individuals, corporations, and unions as long as they do not coordinate with a candidate.
Swamp Watch tracks the biggest donors and the committees that take their money, then looks at what those donors want from government. Our reporting draws on Federal Election Commission filings, state campaign finance reports, and trackers such as OpenSecrets.
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Trump's super PAC is attacking Democrats for being "open" to data centers.
Trump calls data centers "Money Machines."
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Elon Musk is funneling over $7 million to reelect GOP Sen. Jon Husted.
Only Ken Paxton is getting more of Musk's money.
Larry Ellison's trust gave $1 million to the super PAC backing GOP Sen. Darline Graham.
She now says we must accelerate data center construction to beat China.
GOP Rep. Andrew Garbarino took the max from both ICE jailers, GEO Group and CoreCivic.
He chairs the House Homeland Security Committee.
GOP Sen. Ashley Moody has taken $50,000 from donors tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
As Florida AG, her probe of Epstein's jail work release found no wrongdoing.
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Elon Musk has now given $168 million to the Senate GOP's main super PAC.
He donated 58% of everything it raised last quarter, by himself.
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Byron Donalds has been boosted by over $6 million from data center interests.
That includes Florida's power companies, Meta, and Google.
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A banker's daughter gave Trump's super PAC $3.5M and pledged $2.5M to his ballroom.
Trump then pardoned her father, who had been charged in a bribery scheme.
The Winklevoss twins funneled $5 million to Trump’s ballroom.
Trump is now trying to cancel a $5 million penalty against their crypto firm.
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Byron Donalds just received another $1 million from ICE jailer GEO Group.
That's $3.5 million from the company in under a year.
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Palantir just got EXPOSED for donating millions to Trump's ballroom.
Under Trump, the company has received up to $11B in DOD contracts.
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NextEra Energy just got EXPOSED for donating millions to Trump's ballroom.
They are currently seeking approval for a $67B merger.
Dominion Energy funneled over $6 million into Virginia politics this year while chasing their $67B merger.
Virginia lawmakers appoint the regulators who will approve or deny it.
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry took $25,000 from the Trump sons' bitcoin partner firm.
Landry then joined Don Jr. at an event for the company's $10 billion data center.
Trump's ballroom fund hid the names of 10 megadonors who gave over half of its $300 million.
Each one gave between $10 million and $25 million.
GOP Sen. Jon Husted took over $190,000 from Medicare fraudster executives.
He campaigns against the "fraud flowing out of Washington."
Trump donor Konstantin Sokolov now heads a $201M foreign investment fund.
He has given over $14 million to Republicans since 2025.
Ken Paxton partied in Dubai on New Year's Eve with 2 fugitives indicted for healthcare fraud.
Paxton received $190,000 from the men.
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Byron Donalds received funds from a developer the state of Florida paid $83 million for 4 vacant acres.
The land was just appraised at $10 million.
Trump's super PAC boss James Blair was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a pro-Putin regime.
A Trump donor says he paid Kimberly Guilfoyle $300,000 before she became an ambassador.
He says she then asked him for $100,000 more to pay off her credit card bill.
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GOP Sen. Jon Husted took over $116,000 from an Epstein co-conspirator.
2 months after his last check, Husted voted to block the release of the Epstein files.
Elon Musk has funneled more than $276 million to Republicans in the midterm elections.
This is the most anyone has ever spent in an election season.
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Trump aide Dan Scavino raked in at least $1 million in Truth Social stock last year.
He promotes the app in his official White House capacity.
Byron Donalds has received $40 million from real estate interests alone.
That's about a third of everything he's raised.
RFK Jr. lobbied Trump to pardon fraudster Trevor Milton, a $750,000 PAC donor.
The pardon wiped out up to $660 million he could have owed his victims.
Byron Donalds has received over $1 million from Florida's property insurance industry.
He's fighting David Jolly's plan to improve hurricane coverage.
GOP Sen. Roger Marshall took nearly $100K from fertilizer companies accused of price-fixing.
He says Kansas farmers face a fertilizer market "working against them."
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Trump's ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly BEGGED a donor to wire $100,000 to her Amex.
She texted him: "It won't show up anywhere."
Byron Donalds' campaign raked in over $1.9 million from the Tampa Bay Rays' owners.
Their $2.3 billion stadium is already receiving over $870 million from taxpayers.
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GOP Sen. Susan Collins is now the subject of a new ethics complaint.
This comes after she allegedly steered $8M to her defense contractor donor.
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Trump PARDONED a GOP official who spent police memorial donations on plastic surgery.
He has never explained why.
Top GOP fundraiser Palmer Luckey's company received a $2.9B Navy contract.
Days earlier, Hegseth put him on a Pentagon task force on future warfare.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin kept Noem's $108 million luxury jet deal with a donor's firm.
He considered canceling it, then backed off after talking to Trump's chief of staff.
Maine GOP governor nominee Bobby Charles TOOK dozens of donations over the legal limit.
His campaign is now refunding them after an ethics complaint.
