Is Corporate Political Spending Becoming Bad for Business?
A small D.C. policy shop, the Center for Political Accountability, is driving a critique of money in politics aimed at spurring new thinking in C-suites and boardrooms.
2026 Proxy Season: CPA Political Disclosure and Accountability Effort Maintains Strong Momentum
The 2026 proxy season continued to show strong shareholder support for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure and accountability effort in an increasingly challenging environment.
OpenAI Employees Are Funding a Political Fight Against Their Own President
Freed said boards should consider the reputation consequences of executives’ personal political activity when it overlaps with a company’s business or regulatory interests.
Trump’s Freedom 250 draws corporate sponsors with business before his administration
“The concern is not that companies are sponsoring a national celebration. The concern is that this celebration appears to offer access to the president while some of those companies have business before his Administration,”
The New Rules of Political Spending Oversight
Rising reputational, legal and shareholder risks are pushing boards to treat political spending as a governance priority.
The Crypto Industry’s Big Election Spending Highlights Political Risk of Super PACs
The U.S. cryptocurrency industry has become one of the most aggressive players in U.S. elections, but its spending has amplified scrutiny and backlash of the industry without delivering clear wins.
Nathan Cummings Foundation v. Axon Enterprise, Inc.
Between 2011 and 2025, proposals seeking disclosure of political spending won majority support at 30 companies, according to the Center for Political Accountability (CPA).
IRS glitch masked $51m in political donations, finance watchdog says
A total of $51m for the second half of 2025 remains unaccounted for due to this technical error, according to the Center for Political Accountability (CPA), a non-profit that tracks corporate spending.
Proxies for Politics
The Center for Political Accountability (CPA), which has long worked with investors to promote political transparency, including by developing a model shareholder proposal and maintaining the CPA-Zicklin Index, a widely used measure of corporate political disclosure…