US election answers the question: how do you spend a billion dollars?
The candidates have raised an extraordinary amount of money in an election awash with cash on an unprecedented scale
October 2024
Amazon donates to group backing hardline anti-abortion Republican
Elon Musk skips hearing as $1m election giveaway case moves to federal court
University of Michigan recruits state attorney general to crack down on Gaza protesters
US warns Musk’s Super Pac $1m-a-day giveaways may be illegal, reports say
Bill Gates says privately he donated $50m to Kamala Harris campaign – report
What does Elon Musk want from all this politicking?
Elon Musk’s pro-Trump Pac pouring millions into Facebook ads instead of X
The far-right megadonor pouring over $10m into the US election to defeat ‘the woke regime’
Trump gets record donations from big oil but far less than $1bn he wanted
Elon Musk gave $75m to his pro-Trump group in three months
Harris campaign’s record $1bn funds fail to translate into swing state advantage
Trump’s courting of big donors poses major corruption dangers, experts warn
Donald Trump’s foul-mouthed migrant rant captured in private pitch to donors
Musk’s millions in rightwing gifts began earlier than previously known – report
September 2024
Trump hawks $100 commemorative coins in latest hunt for cash
Why Republicans are raising double the money in down-ballot races
August 2024
Five things we learned from our reporting on the US’s pro-Israel lobby
The Guardian followed key congressional races affected by Aipac and similar groups for the past few months
Fake electors from 2020 giving thousands to Trump-Vance campaign
‘Trump and Vance are keeping extremist election-deniers in the fold to challenge the fall election,’ warns watchdog
Unregulated money continues to corrode US politics. Reforms are needed
Daniel I Weiner and Owen Bacskai
Watergate sparked a political reckoning 50 years ago. The scandal wasn’t just an abuse of power, but it was a campaign finance scandal – with lessons for today
