Trump’s FEC nominee has questioned the value of disclosing political donors - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09/15/trumps-fec-nominee-has-questioned-the-value-of-disclosing-political-donors/?utm_term=.ae57deb22f28

Top Trump donor ponies up to take out Flake - POLITICO

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/09/trump-jeff-flake-robert-mercer-kelli-ward-241454

America's $1 Trillion National Security Budget

​Posting this here in case we need to refer back to DEFENCE SPENDING​

http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/defense-budget/2016/americas-1-trillion-national-security-budget.html

Lawsuits, Falsehoods, and a Lot of White Men: Trump’s Election Commission Meets Amid Growing Controversy – Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/lawsuits-falsehoods-and-a-lot-of-white-men-trumps-election-commission-meets-amid-growing-controversy/

How to account for Facebook expenditures in disclosure laws?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/09/mark-zuckerberg-president-facebook-algorithm?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=242992&subid=1408221&CMP=GT_US_collection

 

It’s not clear that Facebook spending can be accounted for as things stand. But if Zuckerberg himself runs for President, he will have access to Facebook’s ability to reach people and connect people in a way no candidate ever has had.

 

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Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

 “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

 

 

De Blasio’s $21 billion revolution - NY Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/de-blasio-21-billion-revolution-article-1.3461772?cid=bitly

Compilation of how big money supresses news and research

https://www.nationofchange.org/2017/09/03/big-money-buys-off-criticism-big-money/

Big money funders of universities, foundations, and think tanks require filters to suppress investigation and dissemination of information about the role of big money in politics.