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Roger Stone is not cooperating. But soon, he might not have a choice. On Monday, Justice Department prosecutors asked a federal judge to compel Stone...
Minnesota Democratic congressional candidate Jeff Ettinger—the former president, CEO, and chair of Hormel Foods—boasts on his campaign website...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. In the pantheon of...
The Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania was too close to call late Tuesday night, with television doctor Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund manager...
Fifteen minutes before Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was due to go on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on March 30, 2021—hours after a bombshell report...
An inquiry from the feds has thrown new light on the murky relationships between a dozen Trump-aligned groups. And the problem traces back, as do so...
Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) points the finger at Facebook for its role in spreading disinformation and adding to “divisiveness” in U.S. politics that...
Former President Donald Trump and his top election-fraud lawyer, Jesse Binnall, have a number of things in common—they both falsely believe the...
Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Overpaying a...
In the waning minutes of his final public event before Ohio’s Republican primary, venture capitalist and Senate hopeful J.D. Vance offered voters...
After years of criticism, Columbia University Medical Center has finally—quietly—cut public ties with celebrity doctor turned Republican Senate...
When former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) was asked on the 2020 campaign trail about the recently purchased private jet she was flying around Georgia,...
When former President Donald Trump reluctantly tossed a lifeline last week to venture capitalist J.D. Vance’s struggling Senate campaign, he may...
On Monday, days after former President Donald Trump endorsed venture capitalist J.D. Vance’s Senate candidacy in Ohio, Vance’s former law school...
Last year, it was a fundraising feast for the MAGA Goon Squad. But in 2022, without the donor stimulus of an attempted insurrection, things are going...
Convicted Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) punctuated his plunge from political grace with a campaign finance report for the ages, taking out a home loan...
For the third straight quarter, Donald Trump’s former campaign committee turned in a fundraising loss, shedding $1.2 million to start 2022. And the...
Former president Donald Trump on Friday made his second controversial endorsement in as many weeks, tossing a lifeline to the struggling Senate...
Four days after joining the New Hampshire Republican primary, Senate hopeful and Bitcoin millionaire Bruce Fenton compared the widespread adoration...
Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters has made no secret of his connections to his longtime business partner and biggest political...
Last year, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of Republican congressional incumbents. But now, as the...
When it came out last week that the Federal Election Commission fined Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee...
As campaigns vacillate on whether to open their digital wallets to cryptocurrency donations, they might take warning from an unlikely source. The...
Almost exactly two years after former Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) was sentenced to 11 months in prison for campaign finance violations—and more than...
Federal law says candidates can only give other candidates $2,000 per election. But Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)—in classic Cruz fashion—may have found...
Donald Trump’s notoriously belligerent non-disclosure agreements have suffered another legal blow. It’s the third such loss in the last year,...
Indicted Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) may have just staked his political career—and possibly his freedom—on a tried-and-true excuse: Bad cell...
David McCormick, the leading candidate in Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary, claims he’s running to challenge “the weakness and wokeness...
Conservative social media personality Christian Walker—the adult son of football star turned Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker—has...
Donald Trump may have been impeached twice, and he’s taken some lumps in court, but in one legal arena he is hands-down the undefeated reigning...
For years, Democrats have publicly slammed Fox News for acting as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party. But privately, dozens of Democrats have...
Last fall, Dr. Anthony Fauci came under a barrage of attacks from hysterical critics. But on this occasion, it wasn’t Trump supporters,...
A rowdy convoy of truckers is descending on the Beltway outside of Washington, D.C., presenting itself as an organic reaction to mask and vaccine...
More than 10 years ago, Ron Paul’s presidential campaign got caught up in a bribery scandal that netted felony convictions against three senior...
Donald Trump may no longer hold elected office, but Republican candidates are still paying homage—literally. Trump’s private companies clocked...
When Republican Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt was Nevada’s attorney general, he was responsible for enforcing the law. Now, a watchdog alleges that...
The other shoe has dropped for Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ). His campaign committee has agreed to pay a $125,000 federal fine for misusing donor...
Earlier this week, a lie rocketed around conservative media that the Biden administration planned to hand out “crack pipes” as part of a $30...
One week after congressional investigators subpoenaed Jan. 6 organizer Ali Alexander, a dormant super PAC sent thousands of dollars to his old...
Donald Trump has earned a reputation as perhaps the most litigious American politician in living memory. But, while that defining characteristic...
Federal sex crime investigations don’t pay. That appears to be one takeaway—among many—from the year that has befallen beleaguered Rep. Matt...
Retired entrepreneur Jeff Paul was once an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump. But that was before Paul went toe-to-toe with Trump over the...
It’s usually the images of a violent mob attacking the U.S. Capitol that are associated with the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential...