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Wanted: Citizen Reporter to Take a Stand on Money in Politics

United Republic has partnered up with Link TV to send one citizen reporter to the 2012 Republican and Democratic national conventions in Tampa and Charlotte on August 29 and September 3. The chosen citizen reporter will be a volunteer who... read full article »

U.S. Corporations, Politics Getting More Corrupt, Surprising Nobody

The United States is getting more corrupt. So says Transparency International, which ranks the country the 16th least-corrupt in the world in 2001. By last year, the United States fell back to 24th place. Why is corruption spreading? A recent New... read full article »

Hey Obama, Stop Crying Foul and Take a Real Stand Against Corporate Money in Politics

  President Obama raised $71 million dollars in the month of June — $35 million less than Mitt Romney’s  $106 million total raised in the same time-period.  Obama is using the disparity to rally his supporters, deriding Romney’s big-donor campaign... read full article »

Mike Huckabee on Corporate Money in Politics: ‘I Think It’s Sad’

This weekend, the New York Times magazine ran an interview with former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Huckabee touched on the problem of money in politics: What about the influence of money in this campaign? Does the... read full article »

Lawmakers Place Bets on Their Own Legislation

One-hundred-thirty members of Congress or their families have traded stocks collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars in companies lobbying on bills that came before their committees, a practice that is permitted under current ethics rules, a Washington Post analysis... read full article »

The Return of Watergate

Sunday marked the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal, an event of startling criminality that left a permanent scar on American politics and Americans’ trust in government. The scandal began when five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National... read full article »

‘Let’s Face It, Politics in this Country Is Coin-Operated’

Ted Waitt, the California billionaire who co-founded Gateway, has started a new Super-PAC called icPurple. His goal, unlike other more infamous super PAC sugar daddies, is to get independent, centrist candidates into office.” In Mother Jones, Waitt broadcasts his frustrations... read full article »

Infographic: Romney Ahead in Race for Cash

The 2012 presidential election will certainly be the most expensive ever, and the candidates are already going full throttle, racing for cash. Every hour is another chance to get donations, which pay for everything from T.V. ads to travel to... read full article »

20,000 United Republic Members Petition Supreme Court to Overturn Citizens United

Last month, “Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a decision by the Montana Supreme Court, American Tradition Partnership vs. Bullock, upholding the state’s ban on outside election spending... read full article »

Politicians to You: Text Me, Maybe?

Campaign rallies this year may have a surprising new element: a call for all to whip out their phones and send a text message contribution to their candidate of choice. Like charitable giving through text messages in the wake of the... read full article »

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