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Trump has raised over $400 million through his super PAC, MAGA Inc. The amount raised by Trump’s super PAC is unpreceden...
09/29/2026

Trump has raised over $400 million through his super PAC, MAGA Inc. The amount raised by Trump’s super PAC is unprecedented.

How is Trump raising so much money?

Over the last 20 months, Trump’s super PAC has repeatedly received large donations from corporations or individuals that are seeking — or have recently received — favorable treatment from the Trump administration.

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Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump, who is constitutionally prohibited from running for president again, has raised over $400 million through his super PAC, MAGA Inc.

Jay Feely is running for Congress in Arizona. According to his campaign website, one of his top issues is “protecting wo...
09/28/2026

Jay Feely is running for Congress in Arizona. According to his campaign website, one of his top issues is “protecting women’s sports.”

But Feely’s past public comments reveal his retrograde views about how females approach athletic competition, the economic value of women’s sports, and the skills of professional female athletes.

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The former NFL kicker has made women’s sports a central issue in his campaign.

This week, New York City announced a historic $131.5 million enforcement action against food delivery app DoorDash for u...
09/24/2026

This week, New York City announced a historic $131.5 million enforcement action against food delivery app DoorDash for underpaying or delaying payments to workers.

The company will pay more than $115 million to over 260,000 workers who were underpaid.

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This week, New York City announced a historic $131.5 million enforcement action against food delivery app DoorDash for underpaying or delaying payments to workers.

On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and 11 other states dropped their lawsuit to block Paramount from a...
09/23/2026

On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and 11 other states dropped their lawsuit to block Paramount from acquiring Warner Bros. A real settlement would have included an agreement from Paramount to divest important assets. But the deal, formalized in a consent decree, did not require any divestiture.

The consent decree, moreover, does not include any real concessions by Paramount.

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and 11 other states drop their lawsuit to block David Ellison’s Paramount from acquiring Warner Bros. — and get little in return.

Elon Musk has begun financially supporting Republicans again through his super PAC, America PAC. How is Musk spending hi...
09/22/2026

Elon Musk has begun financially supporting Republicans again through his super PAC, America PAC.

How is Musk spending his ad dollars? He is playing the hits.

Across the country, Musk’s America PAC is spending money on advertising attacking Democrats for purportedly supporting “taxpayer-funded s*x change surgeries on kids.” But the claims in the ads are not true.

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Musk is blanketing the internet with digital ads falsely accusing Democratic Senate candidates of supporting “taxpayer-funded s*x changes for kids.”

Trump has amassed an unprecedented war chest of $400 million that can be spent to influence the 2026 midterms through th...
09/21/2026

Trump has amassed an unprecedented war chest of $400 million that can be spent to influence the 2026 midterms through the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

Last week, Popular Information covered MAGA Inc.’s initial ad spending, which is mostly being routed through a spinoff PAC called No Going Back. The report revealed that many of these ads contained false or hypocritical claims.

Since then, MAGA Inc. has released several new ads through No Going Back, targeting new races. This new batch of ads, which has received almost no media scrutiny, is even more brazen.

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President Trump has amassed an unprecedented war chest of $400 million that can be spent to influence the 2026 midterms through the MAGA Inc.

On September 3, the SEC made a quiet announcement: the commission is proposing to rescind a 16-year-old rule enacted to ...
09/17/2026

On September 3, the SEC made a quiet announcement: the commission is proposing to rescind a 16-year-old rule enacted to prevent “pay-to-play” schemes involving investment advisers and pension funds for public employees.

Pension funds are massive pools of money that are invested to provide for the retirement of public employees such as teachers, firefighters, and police officers.

In the U.S., there are over 5,000 publicly run pension funds that hold a collective $6.5 trillion in assets. Millions of public employees rely on these funds to be managed in their best interest.

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The Trump administration is quietly proposing to rescind a 16-year-old rule enacted to prevent “pay-to-play” schemes involving investment advisers and public pension funds.

The AI industry has placed a huge bet on Trump and the Republican Party. In the 2026 cycle alone, AI executives and corp...
09/16/2026

The AI industry has placed a huge bet on Trump and the Republican Party. In the 2026 cycle alone, AI executives and corporations have donated $42 million to MAGA Inc., Trump’s super PAC.

But the political winds may be changing. According to reports, the AI industry may now be hedging its bets. According to Politico, Jay Carney, who served as White House press secretary during the Obama administration, has been tapped “to run a new initiative aimed at shaping national AI policy.”

On X, former Vice President Kamala Harris called Carney’s hiring an “encouraging effort to bring industry and government leaders together.” But after leaving the Obama administration, Carney spent seven years as a hired gun for Amazon. In that role, Carney fought against government efforts to protect privacy and regulate AI.

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The AI industry tapped former Obama aide Jay Carney to rebuild ties with Democrats. He spent years at Amazon undermining privacy protections and fighting AI regulation.

Trump has amassed over $400 million through his super PAC, MAGA Inc. With Trump’s approval ratings hitting all-time lows...
09/15/2026

Trump has amassed over $400 million through his super PAC, MAGA Inc. With Trump’s approval ratings hitting all-time lows and many Republican candidates in swing races struggling, Trump has finally begun spending some of this money.

With the exception of Texas, this money is being routed from MAGA Inc. through a new Trump super PAC, No Going Back. The fact that the Trump operation felt it necessary, outside of Texas, to route public communications through a new super PAC called No Going Back illustrates the current unpopularity of the MAGA agenda.

The same dynamic is also found in the ads themselves. Some ads inaccurately accuse Democratic candidates of supporting MAGA policies. Other ads, in an effort to find an effective attack, simply use false or fabricated claims.

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Exactly what Trump is doing with an unprecedented pile of cash.

The crypto industry is desperate to pass the Clarity Act, which would legitimize and stabilize its business by providing...
09/15/2026

The crypto industry is desperate to pass the Clarity Act, which would legitimize and stabilize its business by providing it with a federal regulatory framework.

One of the primary beneficiaries of the Clarity Act would be Trump himself. Trump’s latest financial disclosure revealed he personally earned about $1.4 billion in 2025 from his family’s crypto ventures. A permanent, relatively permissive regulatory environment would likely make Trump’s holdings even more valuable.

On Monday, Senator Cynthia Lummis released a new version of the Clarity Act that she claimed imposed meaningful ethics requirements on Trump. The latest version of the Clarity Act does nothing to meaningfully limit Trump’s conduct.

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The sponsors of the legislation claim they have added meaningful ethics restrictions. Here are the facts.

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