Dark Money

Primary meddling, dark money and self-funding loopholes help skew Illinois politics to favor moneyed candidates. But there are also solutions — like fighting big money with public funding of campaigns.

Research from a California-based nonprofit finds Missouri voters are often kept in the dark about campaign spending. The report from Maplight found...

A new lobbying group says it plans to promote Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s agenda using secret money. It’s being run by a close Pritzker ally.

In early December, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson stopped by Hunter Engineering near Lambert airport to raise money for his campaign committee.Or, to be…

After years of starts and stops, activists in favor of raising Missouri’s minimum wage may finally find success this year with a ballot proposition that…

Updated Friday with a response from the attorney general’s office – A non-profit group set up to promote the agenda of then-Gov. Eric Greitens is asking a…

Missouri’s U.S. Senate contest is attracting more outside money – at least $25 million so far – than any other Senate race in the country.More than half…

With a growing lack of transparency clouding money’s influence on politics around the United States, a new film digs into the issue by zooming in on one…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 23, 2012 - When the Missouri General Assembly removed limits to campaign contribution in 2008,…