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Barron’s: Corporations Are the New Activists After Capitol Riot. Stay Tuned for Proxy Season.

Quartz: American democracy is still under attack— by corporate influence

Directors & Boards: Corporations Turn Away from Political Spending

OpenSecrets.org: Corporations rethinking PACs leave the door to ‘dark money’ open

OpenSecrets.org: Impact of corporate PAC promises may be limited

JDSupra: Former CFTC Chair Gary Gensler expected to be nominated as SEC Chair

Reset Work: Rethinking political spending, whistle blowing from home, air travel virus tests

CNBC: Capitol riot reaction: Corporations and the future of political donations

RollCall: Corporate donor backlash follows Capitol riot, but advocates question if it will last?

The New York Times: ‘An Epiphany Moment’ for Corporate Political Donors May Have Arrived

The Deccan Herald: Corporate America looks to penalise Trump, Republicans, for now

The Fulcrum: Capitol riot prompts halt in corporate political gifts. Punishment, tactic or turning point?

The Atlanta Journal Constitution: Coke, UPS, others freeze political donations after U.S. Capitol attack

Yahoo Finance: Marriott, Blue Cross, and Hallmark are just a few of the companies cutting off Trump and GOP

Yahoo Finance: More tech companies pause donations following Capitol riot

Politico: A road already traveled

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Corporations recoil from eight Pa. GOP vote ‘objectors,’ suspending their money

Financial Times: Corporate America pulls political donations after Capitol assault

MarketWatch: Companies stop political spending after violent Capitol riots: ‘They’ve been playing with fire’

Bloomberg: GOP Lawmakers Hit by Boardroom Backlash for Bid to Undo Election

NPR: Tech Giants Join Corporate Reckoning Over Political Spending

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Best Buy suspends donations to congressional members who voted against certifying election

The Wall Street Journal: Capitol Riot Prompts Some Big Banks and Companies to Pause Political Funding

Financial Times: US business leaders rue their ‘Faustian bargain’ with Trump

Financial Times: Diehard Trump Republicans on collision course with US business: Companies reconsider support and funding for politicians who back overturning of election result

Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum: The CPA-Zicklin Model Code of Conduct

Business Insider: Big corporations like BofA, Ford, and UPS want to bankroll Biden’s inauguration. But the president-elect won’t say yet whether he’ll take their money

Harvard Law School Corporate Governance blog: Trump Legacy: Boom in Corporate Political Disclosure

The Wall Street Journal: Few Fortune 100 CEOs Donate to Biden, Trump

The Financial Times: Trump’s corporate trouble, CEOs keep their distance from the party of business

Business Insider: We combed through records of 100 healthcare companies to see who their top executives are donating to in the 2020 election. They reveal a surprising trend.

San Jose Mercury News: Special report: Two Giants owners lead Bay Area sports in campaign contributions — and they’re big Trump supporters

CQ ESG Briefing: More companies disclose political spending amid pressure

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Minnesota’s biggest companies open their wallets to political candidates, and risk

Directors & Boards: Sticking to Business in the Boardroom

Bloomberg Green: U.S. Businesses Say One Thing on Climate Change, But Their Campaign Giving Says Another

STAT: Pharma contributed to attorneys general who want to repeal the Affordable Care Act

E&E News: Bezos said warming is ‘biggest threat.’ Then he helped GOP

Reuters: As U.S. politics heats up, companies seek to avoid controversy (pdf)

The Wall Street Journal: Chart of the Week; Politics Inc.

Fund Fire: Managers Increase Support for Climate Change Risk Disclosures (pdf)

Financial Times: Big business is no longer the planet’s biggest problem

Financial Times: Top US companies increase donations to Democratic groups

Brennan Center for Justice: Tracing the Money Behind the Supreme Court Case Against Obamacare

Fund Fire: Managers Gave to GOP Groups Accused of Racial Gerrymander Push (pdf)

Moral Money: Companies’ climate rhetoric does not match their political spending

CQ News: Support rises for social-issue proposals at corporate meetings

NYTimes Dealbook: A Company Backs a Cause. It Funds a Politician Who Doesn’t. What Gives?

The Guardian: ‘This is a war’: Republicans launch bid to control election maps for next decade

Barron’s: It’s Time for Boards and Institutional Investors to Act on Racial Justice

Bloomberg Government: IRS Rule Change Could Aid Foreign Election Meddling, Critics Say

New York Daily News: Taking government money? Disclose your political spending: Companies should opt for transparency now more than ever

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: Taking the Lead in Adopting Political Transparency in the COVID-19 Crisis

Corporate Counsel/law.com: When Overlapping Directors Sit on Boards With Opposing Governance Policies

Roll Call: SEC rules could thwart political spending disclosure efforts

Law.com: In COVID-19 Times, Corporate Political Spending Is Finding More Sunshine

Harvard Business Review: How Business Leaders Can Champion Democracy

CPA’s President Bruce Freed on MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber

MarketWatch: Not one S&P 500 CEO is donating to Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren

Financial Post: Climate Skeptic Asset Managers Face Pressure to Reveal Donations

CPA’s Statement on 10th Anniversary of Citizens United

MarketPlace: Some Democrats don’t want corporate money. That’s not stopping corporations.

OpenSecrets.org: More money, less transparency: A decade under Citizens United

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: SEC Proposed Proxy Rules Changes—A Risk to Companies, Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability

WSJ 2020 Election+Business digs into CPA’s 2019 Mutual Fund Vote Analysis