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.
Twenty-Two Minutes
Money, the American sugar program, and the defense of a protected market. On Presidents' Day 1996, hours after Al Gore proposed a penny-a-pound tax on sugar to repair the Everglades, the President spent twenty-two minutes on the phone with Alfonso Fanjul. This case study traces the machine that call was defending, from the cane fields of pre-revolutionary Cuba to the 2024 checks in the QPQ Tracker, through government documents, court records, and the tracker's own data.
By Anti-Corruption Action, Anti-Corruption Action
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