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The Silicon Valley billionaire giving millions to Wisconsin Democrats
Using a loophole in campaign finance law, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and an investor in several massive tech ...
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Wisconsin Democrats continue fundraising dominance over state GOP in 2024
With guardrails removed by court decisions and Republican inaction, wealthy donors like the founder of LinkedIn, George Soros ...
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Top Donors to Rep. Tom Tiffany in the 2024 election cycle (so far)
Several right-wing billionaire megadonors, like the Uhleins, Diane Hendricks of ABC Supply and the co-founder of Kwik Trip, ...
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Tiffany significantly outraising Dem challenger in NW Wisconsin House race
Several right-wing billionaire megadonors, like the Uhleins, Diane Hendricks of ABC Supply and the co-founder of Kwik Trip, ...
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Our Funders and Donors
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THE TEAM
Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania as ...
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Restoring IRS funding means more fairness in tax collection, experts say. And more enforcement on the wealthiest.
For years, Congress has squeezed the Internal Revenue Service budget, leading to a 24 percent drop in the tax collection agency’s enforcement budget and a 31 percent cut in IRS enforcement personnel.
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Pocan vastly outraising Republican challenger in rematch
Pocan was elected to represent Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District — which includes Madison, Dane County and the surrounding areas — in 2012 after serving 14 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly.