A review of FEC filings found Iowa's Republican Senate nominee has taken more than $77,000 from pesticide manufacturers and factory-farm meat PACs — while voting to weaken clean water rules and defending atrazine to the EPA.
Ohio's electric bills are up 53% since 2021. Ramaswamy says data centers will make power free for nearby homes — a promise that runs entirely through regulators the governor appoints. Energy PACs gave him $97,468 this year, and the money roughly doubled after a watchdog flagged it.
Rep. Andrew Clyde owns two gun stores. This week he led nearly 30 Republicans in demanding the ATF destroy firearm transaction records — the same records the ATF uses to trace guns found at crime scenes.
Within a day of each other, three House Republicans and a group of senators introduced seven resolutions to strip the clean-air rules that 17 states and D.C. rely on. Two Koch-funded groups were quoted cheering in the press release.
Bruce Rastetter's carbon pipeline company won the power of eminent domain over Iowa farmland. FEC records show he's given Hinson's committees $56,200 — and he hosted her August 5 Senate fundraiser.
A super PAC called the United Democracy Project spent $32 million trying to pick Michigan's Democratic nominee. Voters said no. Now it may spend tens of millions more electing a Republican who says a van stole his last election.
Elon Musk's America PAC has authorized up to $120 million across eight states, and Maine is on the target list. Updated August 14: the Senate Leadership Fund has committed $42 million of its own — though FEC filings through August 4 show SLF had spent only about $1.2 million in the race.
On July 31, delta-8 became a felony in Texas — seven years after Abbott signed the law that made it legal. A month earlier, the head of the country's largest Anheuser-Busch distributor gave him $500,000.
The No. 4 House Republican's household has disclosed 1,443 trades in three years. One of them — a private stake in xAI bought days before the Pentagon started wiring Grok into military systems — is now sitting on a possible six-figure paper gain.
