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Julie Sabatier/OPBState leaders have warned Oregon is at risk botching its new campaign finance law. Some lawmakers acknowledge the bill they passed to fix it still needs work. -
Oregon Secretary of StateA bill to provide technical fixes to the state’s 2024 campaign finance law instead renders political spending limits moot, critics say.
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The Coalition for Safe, Healthy and Prosperous Communities doesn’t disclose donors but has spent big to help Republicans. -
Democrats and Republicans often clash on the subject of caps on political giving, but are hoping to avoid a messy ballot fight. -
With an expensive ballot fight looming, two sides often opposed to one another are attempting to find a path forward in this year's legislative session. -
Despite a 2019 California law limiting donations to political candidates, money is still pouring into upcoming elections in Shasta County. -
It’s the highest-profile race next year in California. This is where the leading candidates — Democrats Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff — are raising the most money. -
State election officials are fining the Democratic Party of Oregon a late filing fee of $15,000 after the party changed the donor of a hefty campaign check. The fine concludes the investigation into the state Democratic party, but officials are still looking into other issues surrounding the large campaign check. -
Federal prosecutors aren’t the only ones digging into Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the cryptocurrency exchange company, FTX. -
The billionaire previously spent $3.75 million backing nonaffiliated Betsy Johnson, who has trailed badly in polls. -
The Nike co-founder has given to legislative races in the past, but never to this degree. So far records show he’s spent $2 million on the effort. -
Independent expenditure committees funded by special interest groups are spending millions of dollars to make their picks in the California primary. In some races, they are clearly supporting or opposing candidates. In others, the strategy is more complicated. -
This upcoming June primary is the first chance to see the effects of new local campaign finance limits in California set by Assembly bill 571. Shasta County provides a window into how local elections are impacted by the change. -
Former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof is no longer able to run for Oregon governor, but he still has over $1 million in his campaign war chest. It remains to be seen what Kristof does with that cash.
