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This list shows only the direct contributions to each campaign but does not include more substantive contributions for lobbying and outside spending. In 2016, direct contributions (in this list) totaled $1,085,100; lobbying efforts (not in this list) totaled $3,188,000; and outside spending (not in this list) totaled $54,398,558.
Diagram by the Sunlight Foundation depicting the American campaign finance system. The financing of electoral campaigns in the United States happens at the federal, state, and local levels by contributions from individuals, corporations, political action committees, and sometimes the government. Campaign spending has risen steadily at least ...
The Center for Responsive Politics was founded in 1983 by retired U.S. Senators Frank Church of Idaho, of the Democratic Party, and Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, of the Republican Party. [1] In the 1980s, Church and Scott launched a "money-in-politics" project, whose outcome consisted of large, printed books.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a political nonprofit organization, not a political party. Therefore, DSA members and endorsees usually run as members of the Democratic Party, Green Party, Working Families Party, or as independents. [citation needed] In the 2017 elections, DSA members were elected to fifteen state and local ...
Other countries choose to use government funding to run campaigns. Funding campaigns from the government budget is widespread in South America and Europe. [10] The mechanisms for this can be quite varied, ranging from direct subsidy of political parties to government matching funds for certain types of private donations (often small donations) to exemption from fees of government services (e.g ...
List of politicians affiliated with the America First Movement; List of United States political appointments across party lines; List of Arab and Middle Eastern Americans in the United States Congress; List of American politicians of Armenian descent; List of Asian Pacific American Democrats; List of assassinated American politicians
On June 1, that yearly record was again broken with $20 million in donations. Over half of all donations in the following week went to charitable (non-political) causes, including one ActBlue page devoted to a bail fund which raised over $1.5 million from over 20,000 donors. [28]
Sly and Able: A Political Biography of James F. Byrnes (1994; ISBN 0-393-03367-8) by David Robertson; Connally, John: Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon, 1971-1972 The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally (1989) by James Reston Jr. Dulles, John Foster: Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1959