Political Campaigns

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon spent $15.5 million on his re-election campaign and still has hundreds of thousands of dollars left over.Campaign finance reports…

Updated at 2:02 with McCaskill's finances.In spite of repeated assurances that they wouldn't support Congressman Todd Akin's senate bid after his damning…

Non-profits who want to influence political races in the city of St. Louis may soon have to disclose their donors.A bill that would force those…

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence has put an additional $500,000 into his campaign to unseat Democratic Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon.The Missouri…

Updated to note that Slay filed multiple reports, and thus raised and spent more than quarterly report reflected.The latest quarterly reports are in for…

Gov. Jay Nixon entered the final month before the November elections with three times as much campaign cash as his Republican challenger.Finance figures…

This Sunday an exhibition called “Presidents and Politics” opens at the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri St. Louis.The campaign…

A federal appeals court has upheld the Illinois law that requires disclosure of most campaign spending by groups in excess of $3,000.The challenge to the…

Reporting in this story from Brian Mackey.A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday challenges Illinois' campaign finance laws. It seeks to remove limits on how…

Updated at 8:45 p.m. to clarify the location of mingled funds.The Missouri Ethics Commission has fined St. Louis city Alderman Antonio French nearly…