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A bill to close a dark-money loophole dies in Colorado

Mystery fliers about candidates in elections that don't say who paid for them will still be allowed in Colorado after a law supporters said...

Judge says ex-Congressman Bob Beauprez’s group must pay $17,000 in campaign...

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, who ran for governor in 2014, should have registered a nonprofit as a political committee, a judge ruled....

In Colorado, lawmakers clash over a dark money loophole

During Colorado’s November legislative elections, mysterious fliers fluttered around the districts in some of the state’s most hotly contested races. The anonymous glossy fliers lacked...

A dark money lawsuit, a colorful cast of characters, and Colorado’s...

It sounds like the beginning of a joke: A former GOP congressman, a Koch-connected talk radio host, a pastor who once conducted an exorcism...

Mysterious dark-money fliers target highly contested Colorado House and Senate races

Anonymous fliers are targeting candidates in the suburban battlegrounds of hotly contested Colorado House and Senate races — a tactic political observers say is...

Wiretap: Hillary Clinton apologizes for email fiasco, but not dark money

Apologies made It took a while -- a long, long while -- but Hillary Clinton finally got to an I'm-sorry-for-the-email-fiasco in an interview with ABC...

Thomas Paine: Dark money operative?

Read websites railing against disclosure, and you might come away thinking there's no difference between Tom Paine’s anonymous pamphlets urging armed revolution and anonymous corporate-funded TV ads attacking political candidates.

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...

Gardner championed obvious dark-money group in IRS probe

Citizen Awareness Project is a textbook dark money group. Shortly after it was founded in 2012, it threw more than $1 million of anonymous cash into campaigns against Democrats and Democratic causes in Colorado.

Denver TV station subject of political ad complaint

Complaints are filed over political ads against 11 TV stations, including Denver's KMGH.