Our 2-person newsroom worked relentlessly in 2024 to expose the influence of money in politics. Here’s some of the work we’re most proud of. First up, with the U.S. backing foreign wars, we identified every member of Congress who owns defense stock. - ThreadSky

sludge.bsky.social • 58 days ago

Our 2-person newsroom worked relentlessly in 2024 to expose the influence of money in politics. Here’s some of the work we’re most proud of.

First up, with the U.S. backing foreign wars, we identified every member of Congress who owns defense stock.

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sludge.bsky.social•58 days ago

After the November election, we looked back at Harris for President’s expenditures to name the Democratic consultants who got rich from the campaign’s media spending.

https://readsludge.com/2024/11/13/the-democratic-consultants-getting-rich-off-the-harris-campaign-2/

sludge.bsky.social•58 days ago

In September, we exposed the Harris campaign for taking dozens of lobbyist donations despite pledging not to accept them. The campaign initiated refunds to the lobbyists because of our reporting.

https://readsludge.com/2024/09/13/harris-campaign-takes-lobbyist-donations-despite-saying-it-doesnt/

sludge.bsky.social•58 days ago

As Trump staffs up his administration, we’ve been exposing those who work as corporate lobbyists for interests they will oversee in their government positions. We’ve identified more Trump lobbyist appointments than anyone else.

https://readsludge.com/2024/11/27/trump-taps-corporate-lobbyist-jamieson-greer-for-us-trade-rep-2/

sludge.bsky.social•58 days ago

We recently analyzed congressional travel disclosures and exposed the corporate lobbying group-funded organizations that have been wining and dining members of Congress and staff at luxurious resorts.

https://readsludge.com/2024/12/11/how-lobbyists-wine-and-dine-members-of-congress-despite-gift-ban/

sludge.bsky.social•58 days ago

We scoured FEC records to find the conservative billionaires who sponsored this year's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, alongside corporate sponsors like the fossil fuel industry’s top lobbying group, API.

https://readsludge.com/2024/07/10/whos-funding-the-republican-convention/

sludge.bsky.social•58 days ago

Ahead of Election Day, we uniquely compiled the top 20 donors backing Donald Trump. In addition to Elon Musk, they included the gigantic donor and investor Timothy Mellon, pro-Israel donor Miriam Adelson, and arch-conservative Richard Uihlein.

https://readsludge.com/2024/10/25/the-final-pre-election-reports-are-in-here-are-trumps-20-largest-donors/

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