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2026 (16)

September 25th - Corporate Political Spending: A Risk Boards Can No Longer Delegate
September 22nd - Public Failure, Private Ordering
August 25th - Risks of Political Giving Primer
August 24th - Top US Firms that backed Voting Rights Act donate to groups working to undermine it
August 24th - The Supreme Court Reaffirms Its Embrace of Political Disclosure
August 19th - Corporate Donations in the ‘Crosshairs’
August 18th - Is Corporate Political Spending Becoming Bad for Business?
August 17th - 2026 Proxy Season: CPA Political Disclosure and Accountability Effort Maintains Strong Momentum
July 21st - OpenAI Employees Are Funding a Political Fight Against Their Own President
July 6th - Trump’s Freedom 250 draws corporate sponsors with business before his administration
June 16th - The New Rules of Political Spending Oversight
March 25th - The Crypto Industry’s Big Election Spending Highlights Political Risk of Super PACs
March 20th - Nathan Cummings Foundation v. Axon Enterprise, Inc.
March 20th - IRS glitch masked $51m in political donations, finance watchdog says
March 9th - Maintaining an Ethical Compass in Turbulent Times
January 8th - Proxies for Politics

2025 (23)

December 30th - Does Transparency Change Behavior?
December 28th - Proxies for Politics
December 1st - 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index Find Strong Corporate Support
November 20th - Advisory Proxy Resolutions Are More Important Than Ever
November 17th - Corporations Are Doing Better Than You Might Think At Disclosing Political Spending
November 14th - Sustainable Finance
November 14th - Visa, Con Ed Among Leaders In Political Disclosure Rankings
November 6th - 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index: APPENDIX G
October 31st - Public Failure, Private Ordering: Successful Self-Regulation of Corporate Political Spending
October 15th - ‘Woke Chubbʼ campaign cements insurance as new front in climate wars
September 26th - Support for Shareholder Proposals Regarding Political Accountability and Disclosure Remains Strong
September 9th - FETH Metrics and the Shadow of CPCs: Navigating Governance Risk in a Post-Regulatory Shift Landscape
September 2nd - Corporate Political Disclosure Shareholder Proposals Draw Surprising Support
August 4th - New Report Alerts Companies to New Level of Risk from Political Spending
July 30th - Despite headwinds, governance reforms keep traction
July 7th - Disclosing Political Spend Wins Surprising Investor Support
April 24th - What Companies Can Learn from Law Firms About Political Retaliation
April 14th - CZ claps back against ‘baseless’ US plea deal allegations
March 10th - US rise of cryptocurrency and fall of regulation pose ‘profound risks’ – report
February 5th - Misleading political spending disclosure allege to run afoul of the securities laws
January 23rd - Donald Trump’s Inauguration: The Millions Are Flowing
January 21st - Toyota and Meta slipped close to Mr. Trump. The Meaning of ‘donation to the presidential inauguration’
January 16th - Trump’s inaugural fund has a record $170M US in donations. Why corporations are so eager to give

2024 (35)

December 12th - Boards Increasingly Toss Political Issues to Nom-Gov Committees
November 25th - ISS Analyzes Trends in Corporate Political Activity Disclosures and Related Shareholder Proposals Over the Past Decade
November 19th - US companies remain with associations despite divergence on climate
November 6th - 2024 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability
November 5th - US business interests deeply embedded in election
November 5th - Wells Fargo has tripled political spending with state
November 5th - What’s Happening with Corporate Political Spending Disclosure?
November 4th - A Leading Renewable Energy Financing Bank Gains Important Insights on U.S.- based Opportunities
November 1st - Amazon donates to group backing hardline anti-abortion Republican
October 25th - 2024 CPA-Zicklin Index: APPENDIX G
October 11th - FirstEnergy gave heavily to Trump and Trump worked for a federal bailout, report says
October 9th - Comcast, a Backer of Reproductive Rights, Donates to DeSantis’s Anti-Abortion PAC
October 9th - Shareholders Want More Disclosure of Corporate Political Expenditures
September 24th - Lobbyists exploit massive loophole to wine and dine lawmakers, aides at fancy getaways
September 16th - New Survey Reveals Strong Shareholder Support for Companies to Follow a Code of Conduct for Political Spending
September 9th - A Deeper Look at the Scope, Impact, and Risks of Company Political Spending
August 27th - What’s the Impact of Political Spending from Corporate Treasuries?
August 20th - Investors Favor Political Disclosures for Companies, Poll Finds
July 29th - Musk risks political fallout by endorsing Trump. Few CEOs are following
July 10th - If Leading CEOs Aren’t Donating to Trump, It’s Because They Don’t Need To
July 9th - Business Roundtable targets climate rule supported by its members
June 3rd - Supreme Court Architect Demands Justices Shield Big Oil From Historic Climate Trial
June 3rd - Companies were already wary of 2024 politics. Trumps’ verdict could solidify that caution
May 13th - Activism & Voting This Week
May 13th - Corporate America Is Sitting Out the Trump-Biden Rematch
April 11th - Navigating an Election Year at the Peak of Polarization
March 28th - These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021
March 18th - US Poll Prompts Investor Focus on Political Spending
March 11th - Guide to Becoming a Model Code Company
February 27th - orporate Influence Over Legislation/Regulation on Key Themes Affecting the Public Interest, Prompts Investors to File Numerous Proposals Scrutinizing Corporate Political Activity
February 20th - Center for Political Accountability Introduces Guide to Model Code
February 5th - Consumers Energy-backed group made big donations Democrats before energy law rewrite
February 5th - Blame These Companies for the GOP’s Minority Rule
January 29th - Some Minnesota Corporations Quietly Resume Donations to Election Disputers
January 4th - Center for Political Accountability provides guidance on challenges of corporate political spending

2023 (32)

November 27th - 2023 CPA-Zicklin Index Shows Strong Increase in Number of Trendsetters, Top-Scoring Companies
November 8th - Political spending increasingly seen as ESG metric
November 2nd - Political spending increasingly seen as ESG metric as transparency rating reaches new milestone
October 31st - In our ‘hyper-polarized’ political climate, 20% of the S&P 500 is now doing this
October 30th - 2023 CPA-Zicklin Index: APPENDIX G
October 30th - Political Spending: Checklist for Reducing Corporate Risk
October 25th - Harvard Law School Forum: Guide to Corporate Political Spending: A Practical Checklist for Management
August 10th - Investors Ask Members of BRT To Evaluate How Their Political Activities May Reinforce Or Undermine Democratic Institutions
August 1st - The FirstEnergy scandal shows everything that could wrong with companies’ political spending in 2024
June 29th - Former Ohio House Speaker Sentenced to 20 Years After Bribery Conviction
June 27th - Conservatives Want Corporate Political Responsibility
June 20th - Support for Abortion-Related Risk Disclosure Wanes This Year
June 15th - Power companies quietly pushed $215m into US politics via dark money groups
June 5th - Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex shell game
April 24th - Looking Behind the Curtain: Corporate due diligence of political spending essential to protect companies from growing risks
April 13th - ESG’s Political Side Bubbles Up in Tense Proxy Season Debates
April 4th - ‘A truly incredible amount of money’: millions ride on one US judicial election
March 27th - Under The Radar: The Unrecognized Importance of 527 Committees
March 20th - Letter to the Editor: ‘Code’ offers framework to help companies avoid perils of dark money
March 13th - Out of the Darkness
March 9th - Republicans Are Convicted in Ohio Bribery Scheme
March 7th - IBM, Pirelli Tire among companies signing political money principles
March 7th - IBM, Pirelli, Daone Among First to Sign Pact Limiting Record Lobbying Spending
February 21st - Corporations Touting Black History Made Lavish Donations to DeSantis Re-Election
February 16th - A former Dow Chemical executive and an activist want corporations to better govern their political spending in the next election. Here’s how
February 13th - DeSantis’s corporate donors under fire for ‘hypocrisy’ over Black History Month
February 10th - How do companies view the current political environment and what can they do about it?
January 30th - Meet the group sharpening the GOP attack on ‘woke’ climate policies
January 19th - Mind The Gap
January 13th - Follow The Money
January 6th - On anniversary of the Capitol attack, companies face new pressures to disclose political spending
January 5th - Companies Face Proxy Heat on Political Spending After Dobbs

2022 (54)

December 19th - A Deeper Dive — On the Sidelines or Taking Sides: Corporations, Elections, Social Responsibility, and Long-Term Impacts on Corporate Governance
December 13th - Corporate PACs vs Treasury Spending
November 19th - Big Business courted big controversies in the 2022 midterm elections. Were the returns on their political donations worth the risks?
November 14th - Political Spending Transparency from Russell 1000 Companies? Not So Much
November 7th - Agenda: Investors Keep Up the Pressure on Political Disclosure
November 7th - STAT+: Amid concerns over U.S. democracy, pharma financed committees that support election deniers
November 4th - Kaiser Health News: Centene showers politicians with millions as it courts contracts and settles overbilling allegations
October 21st - Ballard Spahr: Corporate Political Disclosure Rankings Show ‘Dramatic Gap’ in Transparency Between Largest and Smaller Companies
October 13th - MarketWatch: Lindsey Graham’s corporate donors find themselves linked to his controversial abortion bill.
October 13th - 2022 CPA-Zicklin Index: APPENDIX G
October 11th - Financial Times: Berkshire and Tesla resist making political spending disclosures
October 11th - NYTimes DealBook: Lifting the curtain on political donations
October 11th - RELEASE: 2022 CPA-Zicklin Index Published, Expanded to Russell 1000
October 11th - Fast Company: Corporate America has long embraced ‘both sides’ political spending. That has to stop
August 11th - STAT: ‘Window dressing’: Eli Lilly’s after-the-fact statement on Indiana’s abortion law sends a disingenuous message
August 2nd - OpenSecrets: Corporate donations to GOP political groups boosted candidates behind anti-abortion rights laws in the states
July 22nd - LA Times – Commentary: Corporations supporting abortion rights? Their political donations tell a different story
July 14th - OpenSecrets: Corporate PACs contributed over a million dollars to lawmakers who opposed abortion rights bill
July 11th - Cooley LLP: What happened with shareholder proposals for political spending in the 2022 proxy season?
July 6th - STAT+: ‘A slippery slope’: Pfizer sells a contraceptive and donated to political groups that could come after the company
June 30th - Washington Post Opinion: Abortion rights should be law, not a corporate perk
June 28th - New York Times DealBook: Checking the receipts
June 27th - Law360: GCs Wrangling with Tangled Fallout of Roe’s Demise
June 23rd - Financial News: How a small group of BlackRock analysts speaks for millions of investors
June 13th - MarketWatch: There’s another reason companies should tread carefully with political influence — the stock market is watching
June 10th - Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: Practical Stake Report
May 23rd - Washington Post: Stefanik echoed ‘great replacement’ theory. But firms kept donating.
May 5th - Practical Stake: Corporations, Political Spending and Democracy
May 3rd - CPA’s Newest Report: Practical Stake
May 1st - Election Law Blog: “Practical Stake” Report Takes a Hard Look at Corporations Political Spending and Democracy
April 27th - Practical Stake Report
April 27th - Financial Times: Smart Read
April 22nd - Greenbiz: 10 climate NGOs companies should know
April 6th - What’s Happening with Corporate Political Spending Disclosure?
April 5th - AT&T shareholders fight back
April 1st - Will AT&T start reporting when its political activity conflict with corporate values?
March 19th - Disney, DeSantis and the “Don’t Say Gay” bill: A Florida showdown over money, power and equality
March 14th - Disclosure of corporate political donations delayed
March 10th - Exxon Mobil’s lobbying report sets benchmark, ESG advocates say
March 8th - When should business take a stand?
February 25th - Hollow Policies: When Corporations’ Political Spending and Emissions Goals/Policies Conflict
February 24th - Cos. Undercut Own Enviro Goals With Political Giving: Report
February 23rd - Top companies are undermining their climate pledges with political donations, report says
February 17th - Facebook, Google, Amazon and more marked Black History Month with fanfare — after donating to lawmakers who blocked voting rights bills
February 10th - BigLaw PACs Continued Giving To GOP Dissenters In 2021
January 29th - Navigating the Risks of Corporate Political Spending
January 27th - To Give or Not to Give?
January 10th - Investors Turning Up Heat on Political Spending
January 7th - US companies condemn election fraud ‘falsehood’ on January 6 anniversary
January 6th - Corporations Donated Millions to Lawmakers Who Voted to Overturn Election Results
January 6th - Managers Warm Up to Voting for ESG-Related Shareholder Proposals
January 6th - How Corporate America Has Changed After the Capitol Attack
January 5th - US companies under pressure to support voting rights push
January 4th - It’s not all bad

2021 (80)

December 23rd - New York Times DealBook: What We’re Looking Forward To in 2022
December 22nd - Financial Times: Business appears complacent about US democratic stability
December 20th - Law 360: Corporate Political Disclosure Votes Hit Record High In 2021
December 18th - Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: 2021 CPA Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability
December 8th - JDSupra: Preparing for the Shareholder Proposal Season – December 2021
December 2nd - Cooley PubCo: 2021 CPA-Zicklin Index shows steady rise in board oversight and disclosure of political spending
December 2nd - Roll Call: More companies disclose political spending after Jan. 6 attack
November 29th - Politico: Corporate disclosure of political giving hits record
November 29th - Law 360: Corporate Boards, GCs Tighten Political Spending Oversight
November 29th - New York Times DealBook: Exclusive: More boards are following the money
November 29th - Thomson Reuters: Record number of U.S. firms change tack on political spending after Jan. 6 attack
November 14th - The Guardian: Can Harry and Meghan succeed in reintroducing royalty into US politics?
November 10th - Bloomberg Law: ESG Proxy Proposals Land on Easier Path for Vote After SEC Change
October 28th - Law360: How One Law Student’s Political Passion Became A Career
October 27th - Kaiser Health News: Pharma Campaign Cash Delivered to Key Lawmakers With Surgical Precision
October 26th - Rolling Stone: What Insurrection? Corporate America Can’t Stop Bankrolling the Jan. 6 Sedition Caucus
October 20th - Forbes: Energy Companies Caught in the Middle with Controversial Abortion Laws
October 20th - Popular Information: A Small Step for Political Transparency
October 5th - IR Magazine: After MAGA, Brace for Shareholder Scrutiny of Political Activities
September 23rd - CQ: Corporate Political Spending Scrutinized Amid State Controversies
September 7th - Agenda Week: What to Expect at Climate Engagement Meetings
July 15th - Law360: What Cos. Risk In Funding Pols Who Back Voting Restrictions
July 15th - The Washington Post: American Airlines, other companies resume donations to Republicans who objected to election results
July 15th - Popular Information: How corporations give Republicans a massive financial advantage in state politics
July 14th - Bloomberg Law: Activist Shareholders Score Wins on Election Spending After Riot
July 9th - Insightia: GLOBAL ACTIVISM VOLUMES DIP IN THE FIRST HALF
July 9th - The Hill: Few companies stick with pledge to shut off funding for GOP objectors
July 1st - CQ Roll Call: Political spending proposals gain traction in proxy season
June 28th - Law 360: Midyear Report: GCs See Record Votes On ESG Resolutions
June 17th - Popular Information – How to pull back the curtain on secret corporate political spending
June 16th - Michigan Advance – Voter suppression legislation in Michigan boosted by company donations to Republicans, nonprofit says
June 5th - The New York Times: On Voting Rights, It Can Cost Companies to Take Both Sides
May 25th - Financial Times: US companies amass political funding cash pile after Capitol riot
May 19th - MarketWatch: Shareholders fight to rein in risk by demanding transparency into public companies political spending
April 23rd - The New York Times: DealBook, Proxy-Season Politics
April 22nd - Roll Call: Shareholders question corporate dollars supporting abortion restrictions
April 16th - Barron’s: Proxy Season 2021 Looks Unusually Active, as Investors Press a Range of Concerns
April 13th - Salon: Corporate America is backing away from Georgia’s anti-voting bill — after funding its sponsors
April 5th - CNBC: Disney, Geico and other corporations backed Florida lawmakers now sponsoring restrictive voting bills
April 1st - CNBC: Companies quiet on whether they will keep donating to GOP supporters of Georgia voting law
March 26th - Law 360: 5 Steps Cos. Should Take In An Era Of Political Scrutiny
March 21st - Financial Times: Voting rights becomes a new battleground for US companies
February 23rd - Washington Post: Activist shareholders pressing companies to disclose more of their political activity after Capitol attack
February 22nd - Triple Pundit: The Risks of ‘Business as Usual’ Corporate Political Contributions
February 12th - STAT: By looking the other way, pharma money helped fuel a toxic political atmosphere in the U.S.
February 12th - The Washington Post: Five myths about campaign finance
February 3rd - CQ: Investors seek to reassess political spending at largest firms
February 2nd - Stanford Graduate School of Business: The Self-Destructive Downside to Corporate Political Spending
January 28th - ValueWalk: ICCR ASKS TO REFRAIN FROM CORPORATE POLITICAL SPENDING
January 26th - CNN: survey shows some of America’s biggest companies still grappling with response to deadly US Capitol riot
January 26th - The Boston Globe: Companies need to reevaluate the full range of their political spending
January 26th - Top1000Funds.com: How to avoid funding treason
January 19th - USA Today: Big businesses say they are responsible, but too often they fuel conspiracy theories
January 19th - The Washington Post: Lawmakers who objected to election results have been cut off from 20 of their 30 biggest corporate PAC donors
January 18th - The Philadelphia Inquirer: Vanguard, BlackRock lag State Street on some proxy votes seeking political donation disclosures: new study
January 16th - Barron’s: Corporations Are the New Activists After Capitol Riot. Stay Tuned for Proxy Season.
January 15th - Quartz: American democracy is still under attack— by corporate influence
January 15th - Directors & Boards: Corporations Turn Away from Political Spending
January 15th - OpenSecrets.org: Corporations rethinking PACs leave the door to ‘dark money’ open
January 14th - OpenSecrets.org: Impact of corporate PAC promises may be limited
January 14th - JDSupra: Former CFTC Chair Gary Gensler expected to be nominated as SEC Chair
January 13th - Reset Work: Rethinking political spending, whistle blowing from home, air travel virus tests
January 13th - CNBC: Capitol riot reaction: Corporations and the future of political donations
January 12th - RollCall: Corporate donor backlash follows Capitol riot, but advocates question if it will last?
January 12th - The New York Times: ‘An Epiphany Moment’ for Corporate Political Donors May Have Arrived
January 12th - The Deccan Herald: Corporate America looks to penalise Trump, Republicans, for now
January 12th - The Fulcrum: Capitol riot prompts halt in corporate political gifts. Punishment, tactic or turning point?
January 12th - The Atlanta Journal Constitution: Coke, UPS, others freeze political donations after U.S. Capitol attack
January 12th - Yahoo Finance: Marriott, Blue Cross, and Hallmark are just a few of the companies cutting off Trump and GOP
January 12th - Yahoo Finance: More tech companies pause donations following Capitol riot
January 12th - Politico: A road already traveled
January 12th - The Philadelphia Inquirer: Corporations recoil from eight Pa. GOP vote ‘objectors,’ suspending their money
January 11th - Financial Times: Corporate America pulls political donations after Capitol assault
January 11th - MarketWatch: Companies stop political spending after violent Capitol riots: ‘They’ve been playing with fire’
January 11th - Bloomberg: GOP Lawmakers Hit by Boardroom Backlash for Bid to Undo Election
January 11th - NPR: Tech Giants Join Corporate Reckoning Over Political Spending
January 11th - Minneapolis Star Tribune: Best Buy suspends donations to congressional members who voted against certifying election
January 10th - The Wall Street Journal: Capitol Riot Prompts Some Big Banks and Companies to Pause Political Funding
January 8th - Financial Times: US business leaders rue their ‘Faustian bargain’ with Trump
January 6th - Financial Times: Diehard Trump Republicans on collision course with US business: Companies reconsider support and funding for politicians who back overturning of election result

2020 (39)

2019 (36)

December 17th - WSJ 2020 Election+Business digs into CPA’s 2019 Mutual Fund Vote Analysis
November 25th - CPA in Financial Times: Do not stifle shareholder voices
November 19th - RollCall: More companies publicly disclosing what they spend on politics, study finds
November 19th - The Brennan Center for Justice: A Trump Administration Plan that Could Boost Corporate ‘Dark Money’ in Elections
November 12th - The Fulcrum: Big companies disclosing more could-be-secret political spending, analysis shows
November 12th - CPA in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
November 8th - BSR: The New Climate for Corporate Political Accountability
November 5th - JDSupra: Report Finds Clear Trend Toward Increased Transparency in Corporate Political Spending
November 4th - Newark Star-Ledger: Are you supporting Trump with that underwear purchase?
October 30th - MapLight: Facebook, Google and Amazon Pour Money into Policy Shops As Breakup Debates Rage
October 27th - NJ.com: Trump era has made corporations afraid to donate to political campaigns
October 25th - The Philadelphia Inquirer: Some Philly companies disclose political contributions. Others don’t. Here’s the score
October 24th - MarketWatch: S&P 500 companies are protecting themselves from today’s inflamed politics, study finds
October 24th - Bloomberg Law: More S&P 500 Companies Disclose Their Money in U.S. Politics
September 29th - CPA Letter to Business Roundtable on BRT Statement (pdf)
September 14th - MarketWatch: Here’s who America’s CEOs are backing in the Democratic presidential race
July 31st - Responsible Investor: What’s the difference between spending on lobbying and on elections?
July 24th - STATnews: Pharma contributions to politicians who support restricting abortions could reverberate
July 10th - Rewire.News: The Corporations Funding the Group Behind the Country’s Most Extreme Anti-Choice Lawmakers
May 6th - The Wall Street Journal: Rolls-Royce Looks to CTO to Reduce Carbon Footprint
May 1st - WSJ: Companies Make Room for Investors Pushing Climate, Social Issues
April 24th - MapLight: Unleashed by Citizens United: Energy, Utility Giants Poured $60 Million Into 2017 Campaigns
April 12th - OpenSecrets.org: In hyperpartisan political environment, major corporations stay away from controversial super PACs
April 10th - MapLight: Health-Care Corporations Flooded Political Campaigns With Cash in 2017
March 29th - Harvard Study uses CPA-Zicklin Index in gauging “The Politics of CEOs”
March 28th - Fair Planet: WHY FOCUS ON CORPORATE POLITICAL SPENDING?
March 21st - Dallas Morning News: AT&T peels off layer of political spending secrecy — thanks to pushy investors and the Michael Cohen fiasco
March 19th - Financial Times: US companies agree to lift veil on political donations
March 6th - VIDEO: Bruce Freed on Board’s Role in Overseeing Corporate Spending
February 18th - NPR Illinois: Illinois Dark Money Group Will “Shine The Light” On Donors, Despite Problems
February 4th - Agenda: BlackRock Reveals View on Political Activity Proposals
February 3rd - The Guardian: BlackRock wants to contribute to society. Why not tackle secret money?
January 17th - Boston Globe: GE is shedding more light on its political donations
January 11th - Agenda: GE Opens Its Books on Political Spending
January 8th - Dow Jones Newswires: GE Will Publish More Political-Spending Details
January 4th - Bloomberg: House Dems Seek SEC Rule on Political Giving Disclosure

2018 (27)

December 7th - Philly Inquirer: Vanguard is no friend to shareholders seeking more details on firms’ political spending
November 29th - Washington Post: MLB donated to Minnesota congressman who made racist, misogynist remarks
November 9th - Boards Tighten Grip on Political Spending
October 31st - How politics became a risky business for companies in the era of Donald Trump, Steve King
October 31st - When CEOs Should Speak Up on Polarizing Issues
October 2nd - The Guardian: Number of US companies disclosing political donations reaches new high
October 2nd - Companies Curb Their Political Spending: Report shows more firms either reducing political activity or increasing disclosure of it
October 2nd - AXIOS: More companies are disclosing how much they spend on influencing politics
June 26th - Corporate Political Disclosure Moves Firmly into Mainstream (pdf)
June 6th - Trump Lawyer Payments Fuel AT&T Shareholders’ Push to Know More about Political Spending
May 25th - Companies Face Many Dark Perils When It Comes to Political Money
May 24th - All Eyes on Publix: What Crisis Experts Have to Say About a Rough Week
May 15th - Shareholders Push Travel Companies to Disclose Political Giving as Mid-Terms Loom
May 11th - Lawmaker Seeks Study of Utilities’ Political Spending
May 10th - Study: Most Americans Want to Kill ‘Citizens United’ with Constitutional Amendment
May 8th - Shining a Light on Corporate Spending in Our Elections
April 25th - Under Pressure: AT&T, Exxon Mobil, Range Resources Face Investor Calls for Political Transparency
April 11th - 5 Steps to Turn Your Public Policy Team into a Sustainability Ally
March 30th - Companies Can Expect Political Money Grab Ahead of Midterms
March 27th - The Morning Risk Report: Will SEC Rule Curb Corporate Political Spending Disclosure?
February 27th - Turning Words into Action
February 5th - Letter to the Editor: Corporate Campaign Funds
February 3rd - BlackRock Wants to Contribute to Society. Why Not Tackle Secret Money?
February 1st - As States Target High Drug Prices, Pharma Targets State Lawmakers
January 22nd - Staff Legal Bulletin No. 141 strikes again! (pdf)
January 12th - Appropriations Bill Would Bar SEC from Requiring Political Spending Disclosure
January 2nd - Listed: The Top 10 Corporate Political Spenders Who Disclose (pdf)

2017 (30)

December 31st - Goldman Sachs Trying to Kill Initiative Requiring More Lobbying Disclosure
December 13th - Point-Counterpoint: SEC Political Disclosure Rule (pdf)
October 25th - Saluting Corporate Political Transparency
October 18th - Bruce Freed appears on the Richard Fowler Show
October 18th - Comcast Secretly Kicked in $200K for Lawmakers’ Room at 2016 Republican Convention
September 28th - The Most and Least Transparent Companies for Political Spending
September 27th - These N.J. Companies Reveal Which Politicians Get Their Cash. Why Won’t Others?
September 26th - More Company Boards Add Oversight of Political Spending
September 26th - Your Favorite Companies May Be Political Black Boxes
September 26th - CEOs Scolded Trump after Charlottesville. Will Corporations Close Their Checkbooks?
September 19th - These Companies Support the Paris Agreement. They Also Support Climate Deniers.
August 17th - How Companies Can Earn Back Our Trust After Charlottesville
August 8th - Nation’s Biggest Lobbying Organization Plans 2018 Meeting at Trump-Owned Miami Resort
July 26th - SEC’s Clayton Indicates Support for Limiting Shareholder Proposals (pdf)
July 20th - Campaign Finance Reform Without Law? (pdf)
July 16th - Two Takes on Gadfly Shareholder Activism (pdf)
July 14th - Is the Most Powerful Lobbyist in Washington Losing Its Grip?
July 14th - Republicans Keep Corporate Lobbying Secret by Adding Riders to Spending Bills
June 9th - Comcast Shareholders Reject Lobby Disclosure Resolution for the Fourth Straight Year
May 24th - Guess Who’s Addressing Money in Politics? It’s Not the Government
May 11th - Beneficiaries of $14.4 Billion Over Last Decade, Tax Lobbyists Ready for Trump Bonanza
May 4th - The Morning Risk Report: An Easier Way to Track Corporate Political Spending
May 4th - Shareholders Demand Disclosure – and Republicans Push Back
May 4th - Why Menendez Opposed Trump Pick to Regulate Wall Street
March 14th - Shareholders Pushed Irving’s Fluor Corp. to Reveal Its Political Spending, and Here’s What They Found
March 6th - Opinion: Now There’s a Way to Invest and Save Democracy at the Same Time
March 2nd - Contraceptive Makers Helped Elect Republican Congress Ready to Defund Planned Parenthood
March 1st - What Boards Need to Know About Corporate Political Spending
February 7th - Corporate America Should Get on Board with Political Accountability
January 27th - Commentary: How Companies Should Respond to Trump’s Attacks – and Praises

2016 (20)

November 12th - Why J&J, Merck Back GOP Opponents of Birth Control They’re Selling
October 17th - Which Companies Keep Political Contributions Secret?
October 14th - Opening the Books on Political Giving by Comcast and Others
September 30th - Doing What the Feds Won’t on Corporate Political Disclosure
September 30th - The Morning Risk Report: Disclosure of Corporate Political Spending on the Rise
September 29th - Should Public Companies Disclose Their Political Spending?
September 29th - Companies Are Disclosing More About Their Political Contributions, Study Says
September 28th - More Corporations Embrace Disclosure, Despite Conservative Opposition
September 14th - Protecting Companies from Political Spending Peril
August 31st - Vigilant Companies Can Avert Watergate Scandal Replay
August 8th - Morris Pearl on the Patriotic Millionaires, Money, and Politics
August 1st - The Big Number: 153
April 30th - It’s Time to Move Ahead with the SEC Nomination Process
April 27th - Corporations Opposed to North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Helped Elect Its Supporters
April 6th - Do Political Business in the Daylight: Corporations Are Distorting Our Democracy and the 2016 Election with Their Dark Money
April 4th - Investors Push for Fuller Picture of Corporate Political Contributions
March 3rd - Corporate Political Spending Becomes Compliance Issue
February 1st - The Astute Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending
January 21st - CPA Featured at Brookings Summit
January 5th - Texas Companies Growing Part of Political Transparency Trend

2015 (25)

December 7th - Corporate Political Disclosure and the Mutual Fund Vote: 2015 Proxy Season Analysis Shows Steady Support (pdf)
October 11th - New Rankings Highlight Corporate Transparency in Politics
October 8th - Tech Industry Lags in Political Transparency
October 8th - Report: More Companies Voluntarily Disclose Campaign Spending (pdf)
October 8th - This Ranking System Is Increasing Corporate Political Disclosure
October 8th - Corporations Improve Reporting of Political Activity — With Exceptions
October 8th - Corporations Are Disclosing More Information About Their Political Contributions, Study Says
September 30th - A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending
September 8th - Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon in Campaign Finance Reform: Shame
August 27th - Rays of Light in the Shadow of Dark Money
August 5th - Do You Know Which Candidates Your Company Is Funding?
June 16th - Shareholders Press for Information About Political Spending
June 9th - Corporations Open Up About Political Spending
June 5th - Disclosing Secret Corporate Political Spending Does Not Hinder Free Speech
May 29th - Tech Companies Aren’t So Transparent When It Comes to Politics
May 28th - Time to Put the Political Spending Horse Before the Lobbying Cart
May 19th - Foundations to SEC: Force Corporations to Disclose Political Giving
May 13th - Exclusive: Walmart Improves Lobbying Disclosure after Shareholder Push
April 22nd - The Chamber of Commerce Is Fighting Fiercely to Stop the Scourge of Corporate Transparency
March 30th - U.S. Chamber Doubling Down on Political Juggernaut
February 26th - The Inside Story of How Citizens United Has Changed Washington Lawmaking
February 24th - How Dark Money Is Distorting Politics and Undermining Democracy
February 11th - Five Years After Citizens United
February 2nd - Reducing the Influence of Political Donations
January 27th - Anti-Disclosure Backlash Carries Risks for GOP

2014 (16)

December 29th - Bruce F. Freed and Charles E.M. Kolb: US Companies Shine Sunlight on ‘Dark Money’
December 23rd - Delamaide: Lobbyists Losing Disclosure War
December 16th - Constitution Check: How Much Secrecy Does the First Amendment Give to Political Donors?
December 13th - Corporate Political Transparency Grows Along with Dark Money
December 6th - Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance with Attorneys General
December 4th - Chamber Fights Back Against Pressure to Disclose Corporate Political Spending
November 21st - Meet the Fortune 500 Companies Funding the Political Resegregation of America
November 8th - Dark Money Helped Win the Senate
November 3rd - Election 2014: A New Level of Collaboration Between Candidates and Big-Money Allies
October 27th - Are Our Courts for Sale?
September 24th - Which Big Companies Are Keeping Their Politics a Secret?
September 24th - U.S. Companies offer more political spending detail: study
September 24th - Study: Major companies are increasingly disclosing their political spending
September 24th - Tech Firms and Lobbyists: Now Intertwined, But Not Eager to Reveal It
July 18th - A Surprising Solution to America’s Dark Money Problem
January 21st - The Unfulfilled Promise of Citizens United