Newsroom
Reporting from nonprofit newsrooms we republish with permission, paired with our own companion analysis: for each story, we follow the committees and donors it names one layer further back through itemized FEC receipts, IRS grant filings, and lobbying disclosures in our database.
The Rules Came First
Money, lobbying, and the unmaking of produce-safety oversight. The conventional story of the 2026 lettuce outbreak is a million-dollar check and a White House dinner. The documented record is longer and more systematic. This case study reads the contribution ledger, the lobbying filings, and the rulemaking calendar side by side, every figure verified against the FEC and the Senate lobbying database.
By Anti-Corruption Action, Anti-Corruption Action
‘PACs galore’: Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is now a super PAC battleground
Outside groups have poured more than $52 million into Michigan's open-seat Senate primary — second only to Texas — overwhelming the candidates' own fundraising. OpenSecrets maps the four super PACs driving it. Our companion analysis follows each of those machines one layer deeper: who capitalizes them, what they did last cycle, and where the disclosure gaps are.
By Joedy McCreary, OpenSecrets