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  1. Americans for Tax Reform drops $2 million in one day

    By Jake Harper Oct 14, 2012 1:32 p.m.

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  2. Political Ad Sleuth debuts: Track the money behind the campaign ads

    By Kathy Kiely and Jake Harper Oct 10, 2012 6:33 a.m.

    Above Las Vegas last week, the air invisibly crackled with attacks and counter-attacks by candidates for a House and a Senate seat -- not to mention President Obama, his rival Mitt Romney and their backers. In Denver, there was a clash of political fronts:  Outside groups like Planned Parenthood and Crossroads GPS competed for airtime with each other, as well as the candidates they are supporting.

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  3. Target Nevada: Silver State drawing lots of green from campaigns

    By Kathy Kiely Oct 1, 2012 12:25 p.m.

    Nevada is used to high rollers, but the state has special reason to be blase about this set.

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  4. A half-billion in outside influence: What else could the money buy?

    By Becca Heller Sep 27, 2012 8:26 p.m.

    A little less than six weeks shy of Election Day, we've crossed another campaign spending Rubicon: Sunlight's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker has now recorded more than $500 million in a spending on the 2012 campaign by outside interest groups.

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  5. Gross Political Product: Outside campaign spending tops 2010 total

    By Kathy Kiely Sep 23, 2012 9:09 p.m.

    In a campaign that's supposed to be about an ailing economy, there's just one financial indicator that remains consistently robust: Call it the Gross Political Product.

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  6. Corporate funded nonprofit works at nexus of politics and entertainment

    By Nancy Watzman Aug 31, 2012 12:17 p.m.

    A corporate-funded nonprofit organization that operates out of a Washington, DC lobbying firm's offices and describes itself as working in the "nexus between the entertainment community and Washington" will be helping to host a "high-profile evening event" on Tuesday at the Democratic convention in Charlotte.

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  7. Election law? What election law?

    By Kathy Kiely Aug 31, 2012 8:37 a.m.

    A Republican lawyer wonders where the FEC enforcers are and a donor sneaks a reporter into a Karl Rove meeting for financiers. Are even the bankrollers getting fed up with the political big money game?

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  8. The phone booth caucus: House Democratic freshmen

    By Becca Heller Aug 23, 2012 6:20 p.m.

    Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., the first black woman elected to Congress from Alabama, is the president of this year's small Democratic freshmen class. Those nine freshmen, dubbed the "noble nine" by supporters, elected the Harvard-educated lawyer as the leader of a small, but diverse class that includes four women, four African Americans and one openly gay member and one who identifies as Buddhist.

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  9. Profile: Rick Berg

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Aug 23, 2012 10:26 a.m.

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  10. Super PAC Profile: CREDO takes aim at House freshmen

    By Jake Harper Aug 21, 2012 12:48 p.m.

    The CREDO SuperPAC exists in spite of—or because of?—its own desire to overturn Citizens United, the Supreme Court case that led to the creation of super PACs. “We wouldn't launch this SuperPAC unless we felt it was absolutely necessary to fight back,” says the group's website. But this sort of self-loathing isn’t the group's only unusual trait. Among organizations whose purpose is to obscure funding sources, CREDO is unique in its transparency.

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  11. Profile: Ann Marie Buerkle

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Aug 21, 2012 11:19 a.m.

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  12. Profile: Joseph Heck

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Aug 21, 2012 11:19 a.m.

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  13. Profile: Francisco Canseco

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Aug 21, 2012 11:19 a.m.

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  14. Profile: David Cicilline

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Aug 21, 2012 11:19 a.m.

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