Corporate Political Spending Surges to Record-Shattering Levels ^68.9%

Common Dreams - By Newswire Editor - 6/30/2026, 3:46 PM

Slippery Slope 31.4% - Availability Heuristic 30.8% - Negativity Bias 30.2%

Nearly one third of all corporate political spending on elections since the 2010 Citizens United decision has occurred in the current election cycle – months before the general election, a new report from Public Citizen finds. Since the U.S. Supreme Court greenlit direct corporate spending to influence election outcomes in 2010,... more