Cuomo Has $18 Million in Campaign Cash. What Can He Do With It?

The huge war chest is the most mon­ey retained by a depart­ing New York politi­cian in recent memory.



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Thomas Barrack, Trump Fund-Raiser, Is Indicted on Lobbying Charge

Mr. Bar­rack, the chair­man of Don­ald Trump’s inau­gur­al com­mit­tee, was accused of fail­ing to reg­is­ter as a lob­by­ist for the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, obstruc­tion of jus­tice and lying to inves­ti­ga­tors. Tags: design TT Mod­ell­bahn TT […]



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Four States Start Inquiries Into Recurring Donation Tactics of Both Parties

Let­ters to WinRed and Act­Blue, which process online cam­paign dona­tions for Repub­li­cans and Democ­rats respec­tive­ly, ask for doc­u­ments relat­ed to their use of prechecked boxes.

How Deceptive Campaign Fund-Raising Ensnares Older People

Old­er Amer­i­cans, a crit­i­cal source of polit­i­cal dona­tions, often fall vic­tim to aggres­sive and mis­lead­ing dig­i­tal prac­tices. A broad Times analy­sis points to the scope of the problem.

They Seemed Like Democratic Activists. They Were Secretly Conservative Spies.

Oper­a­tives infil­trat­ed pro­gres­sive groups across the West to try to manip­u­late pol­i­tics and reshape the nation­al elec­toral map. They tar­get­ed mod­er­ate Repub­li­cans, too — any­one seen as threats to hard-line conservatives.

Whom Do the Billionaires Want for Mayor? Follow Their Money.

Ultra­wealthy donors have giv­en $16 mil­lion to super PACs ded­i­cat­ed to the New York City mayor’s race. Half of that mon­ey has gone to three mod­er­ate candidates.

In Congress, Republicans Shrug at Warnings of Democracy in Peril

As G.O.P. leg­is­la­tures move to cur­tail vot­ing rules, con­gres­sion­al Democ­rats say author­i­tar­i­an­ism looms, but Repub­li­cans dis­miss the con­cerns as pol­i­tics as usual.

Voting Rights Bill Falters in Congress as States Race Ahead

Oppo­si­tion from Repub­li­cans and some of their own sen­a­tors has left Democ­rats strug­gling to deter­mine whether they should try to nix the fil­i­buster to save a top priority.

Klobuchar to Propose Ban on Prechecked Boxes in Political Donations

Sen­a­tor Amy Klobuchar is press­ing for leg­is­la­tion after a Times inves­ti­ga­tion showed that the use of prechecked box­es for recur­ring dona­tions by for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s cam­paign led to a surge of refunds.

Troubled Vaccine Maker and Its Founder Gave $2 Million in Political Donations

Emer­gent BioSo­lu­tions faces scruti­ny in Con­gress for ruin­ing Covid-19 vac­cines and secur­ing lucra­tive fed­er­al con­tracts. Exec­u­tives will appear before some law­mak­ers who ben­e­fit­ed from the company’s spending.