campaign finance

The Democrat fundraising machine, ActBlue, was reportedly warned by a law firm working for the platform in early 2025 that it possibly misled congressional leaders regarding its vetting of foreign donations, according to the New York Times.

France’s top court on Wednesday upheld Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for illegal campaign financing of his reelection bid in 2012 in another blow to France’s former president’s legacy and reputation.

Communist/Islamist/Fabulist/Democrat Zohran Mamdani is less than one week away from becoming the next mayor of New York City, and already he is facing two criminal referrals.

A Paris court ruled on illegal financing of 2007 presidential campaign with money from the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) lost out on $4 million in public matching funds in his comeback bid for New York City Mayor, the New York Post reported. 

Democrat megadonor John Morgan lambasted Kamala Harris’s campaign spending and leadership, insisting she has no political future and “cannot be trusted” with money.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign spent a whopping $2.6 million on private jets alone in just two weeks towards the end of her failing campaign, bringing its total private air travel costs to at least $12 million.

Democrat Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) spent tens of millions of dollars trying to swipe Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) Senate seat. 

A left-wing coalition spent $110 million backing a radical abortion measure in Florida that ultimately failed to pass, campaign finance data shows.

Colombia’s National Electoral Council (CNE) opened an investigation and filed charges on Tuesday against the nation’s far-left President Gustavo Petro and members of his 2022 presidential campaign for alleged violations of spending limits.

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers talk about election-security matters, including a practice called “smurfing.”

The FBI arrested Washington, DC, Council member Trayon White Sr. on Sunday on charges that have not yet been made clear.

Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chairman Sean Cooksey has announced that all donations made to Joe Biden for the November election “shall be either returned or refunded” or redesignated “as appropriate” following his departure from the presidential race.

President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has broken a new record by raising $53 million in February — the most his campaign has brought in since its April 2023 launch.

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign raised a record-breaking $10 million in the day following his State of the Union speech on Thursday, his team told NBC News.

Michael Cohen, a former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, said in court papers unsealed Friday that he had accidentally given his lawyers fictitious legal citations generated by an artificial intelligence program — an admission that could undermine his credibility when he testifies against his former boss.

The Investigative Subcommittee (ISC) report on Rep. George Santos (R-NY) released by the House Ethics Committee Thursday found that the Santos campaign used donations for botox treatments, OnlyFans, and lodging in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. The report states that

Jacksonville, Florida, Mayor Donna Deegan (D) is facing questions after she awarded a no-bid contract worth $300,000 to a firm whose president not only donated to her campaign, but hosted an event for her at his home this year.

House Republicans likely to be in tight races in 2024 hauled in more money on average than their Democrat counterparts in the third quarter.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), a member of the radical leftist group known as “The Squad,” reportedly married a security guard she had allegedly previously paid with campaign finances.

A watchdog group filed an ethics complaint this week with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to request an investigation into Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), who recently launched a Senate campaign, for potentially abusing official taxpayer-funded resources for political purposes.

Political interest groups spent more than $2 billion to directly tout their favored candidates and causes during the 2022 campaign.

Facebook (now known as Meta) was fined almost $25 million on Wednesday for intentionally and repeatedly violating Washington State’s campaign finance laws. Attorney General Bob Ferguson claims it is the largest campaign finance penalty ever issued in the United States, but the fine is less than a rounding error for Mark Zuckerberg’s giant, which enjoyed annual profits of $46.7 billion in 2021.

Although the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) purports to use its resources to ensure black Americans “have the opportunity to achieve the American Dream,” they are supporting a white Democrat congressman over black Republican candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green.

Pennsylvania Republican Jim Bognet, running in the Keystone State’s Eighth Congressional District, slammed his “slippery and corrupt” opponent, Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright, on Breitbart News Saturday, for taking tens of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and corporate PACs with connections to Saudi Arabia.

Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) has reportedly accepted tens of thousands of dollars of campaign donations from Uyghur labor-linked corporations during his time in Congress.

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is under fire for stretching ethics rules by receiving more than $475,000 in campaign donations from state officials who were appointed by her disgraced predecessor, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) reelection campaign is continuing its lavish spending patterns, which include foreign trips to Europe and luxury hotels, according to a pre-primary report reviewed by Fox News. 

Democrat Rep. Frank Mrvan’s (D-IN) campaign reportedly spent thousands of dollars on flights and seat upgrades for his wife over the past year, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

The campaign for Georgia Republican Herschel Walker tore into Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) on Thursday following revelations Warnock may have inappropriately used campaign donations to pay for personal legal expenses.

Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s congressional campaign reportedly continued his spending habits by racking up nearly $60,000 on travel expenses on trips to Miami Beach, Florida, and Paris, France.

The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision cited First Amendment concerns when striking down a portion of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law in a case brought by Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) 2018 reelection campaign.

A group of federal political action committees affiliated with plaintiff-side trial law firms donated $17.5 million towards left-wing candidates and causes after those firms received lucrative government contracts, according to a recent report by Alliance for Consumers. 

A dark money group aligned with Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) brought in a record $92 million in dark money from anonymous donors while Schumer blasted Republicans for using dark money.

Democrat Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT) used campaign funds to pay her family to manage “personal passwords and calendars.”

An ethics watchdog organization asked the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to investigate Democrat Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) for allegedly using campaign funds to bribe a possible primary opponent.