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The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered a challenge to a federal law limiting the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with a candidate for office. During over two hours of ...

Trump is just a puppet whose strings are pulled by his owners — the oligarchs behind Project 2025. We can’t solve the problem until we clearly define it. Trump is not the problem. Both major parties ...

Developments in recent decades reflect diminished respect for the First Amendment. These include campus speech codes, political pressure for censorship on social media platforms, and a society-wide ...

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson acknowledged the bumpy rollout of Michigan's new campaign finance system. During a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing June 24, Benson said improvements have ...

Even if the state wanted to bring charges against federally indicted-Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba for failing to submit several campaign finance reports, it likely wouldn’t due to Mississippi’s ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba's last campaign finance report was submitted in 2021, according to documents the Clarion Ledger received after submitting a public records request. Mississippi law ...