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Littwin: So much money, so little speech

  This may be the year in which we finally say enough is enough. (Actually, it won't be. But if you buy the premise, you...

Little opposition to Colorado Republican Party Super-PAC suit

Colorado Republicans are looking to have a Party PAC party and Democrats will come if invited ...

Hempy rolls into Gov’s race with timely campaign finance ad

  It's not just incumbent John Hickenlooper and Republican Bob Beauprez, Harry Hempy is running for governor too. Today he released a little video explaining...

Dear Governor Hickenlooper: Fractivists make a documentary

At the beginning of this month, “Dear Governor Hickenlooper,” a collection of short anti-fracking documentaries and the product of more than a year’s work by Director Stash Wislocki and Producer David Holbrooke looked like it had been beached.

Ethics group asks FEC for dark money disclosure

  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan filed a suit Wednesday alleging that the Federal Elections Commission...

Green Party to Hick: We’re on political playground too

If you're a Green Party candidate and you want to get news of your campaign out there, what do you do? If you’re Harry Hempy...

Udall sponsors campaign finance transparency bill ahead of big-money race

U.S. Senator Mark Udall has signed on as sponsor for the DISCLOSE Act, even as he is engaged in a pricey race against Republican upstart Congressman Cory Gardner that could decide the balance of the nation's now-Democrat-controlled upper legislative chamber.

Citizens United must disclose funders of Colorado politics documentary

As the Supreme Court said in the case that bears Citizens United’s name, the public has a right to know who is spending money to influence their vote as an election nears.

Littwin: We love our American politic$

  Like many of you, I am thrilled that the Supreme Court, in its supreme wisdom, has ruled that what our dysfunctional political system could...

Documents suggest Rove, Norquist groups played beyond campaign finance limits

On its 2012 tax return, GOP strategist Karl Rove's dark money behemoth Crossroads GPS justified its status as a tax-exempt social welfare group in part by citing its grants of $35 million to other similarly aligned nonprofits.