How The Left Plans To Crush Conservatism in Three Steps
When North Carolina recently enacted the Restore Campus Free Speech Act—affirming the right to individual expression on campuses...
The Establishment — on Both Sides — Weaponizes ‘Fake News’
The epidemic of “fake news” is apparently so contagious it has spread to India. Ravi Prasad, the country’s Electronics and Information...
The Left Insisted That 'Money Isn't Speech' - Until Donald Trump Jr. Met With the Russia
For years, the Left has screamed that money and speech are not one and the same. In 2010, President Obama claimed the Citizens United...
How Donald Trump Just Saved The Planet
Judging by the ferocious intensity with which my liberal friends and their ilk on social media are tearing out their hair, they seem even...
Liberals Launch Their Latest War On Free Speech
Whether it’s tagging legitimate news stories they disagree with as “fake news” or launching increasingly-violent protests to shut down...
The Hidden Legal Pitfalls Facing Consultants
Most political consultants don’t set out with the intention of committing fraud, embezzlement or other obviously illegal acts. But...
How Trump Screwed His Own Super PACs
President Trump didn’t waste any time declaring his plan to run for re-election. But that decision has put groups that support his...
The Filibuster Must Die
There are many great reasons for the existence of the Senate filibuster, the unique right of a minority of 41 senators to deny a vote on...
Portland plans public financing for city campaigns
Opponents of public financing schemes say those programs unfairly require taxpayers to fund campaigns with which they don’t agree. “There...
Why Campaign Finance Rules Make Free Speech Expensive For The Little Guy
The great thing about free speech is that it is, in fact, free. You don’t have to spend a single penny to speak your mind—just ask the...
The People and The Power
Let me tell you about a scam PAC. They raised and spent an ungodly sum, prostituting the name of a candidate while doling out...
Trump PAC Says 1-800 Ad Approach Is Building Supporter Data
The organization has aired its ads around 5,000 times in recent months and generated "millions" of responses, according to Dan Backer,...
The Campaign-Finance Activist Who Thinks We Need More Money in Politics, Not Less
Billy, a large frat brother in a green shirt and white backward hat, cups his hands over his mouth and calls out: “Up next, we have a...
Could Scott Walker’s Legal Victory Expand PAC Superpowers?
Dan Backer, the conservative attorney who helped bring the 2014 McCutcheon case in which the Supreme Court removed aggregate limits on...
The Candidates Who Owe It [Almost] All to a Few Massive Donors
The FEC, bipartisan by design, has been deadlocked on further regulating super PACs since a pair of federal court rulings in 2010...
Are Dems at the FEC Trying to Stop the ‘Stop Hillary’ PAC?
A Republican attorney who serves as treasurer for the anti-Hillary Clinton political action committee Stop Hillary PAC said Thursday that...
After a Supreme Court Victory, a New Challenge to Campaign-Finance Limits
The proverbial ink from Dan Backer’s Supreme Court victory was barely dry before he filed his next challenge to campaign-finance laws....
Meet The Lawyer Who Helped An Alabama Engineer Win A Historic Supreme Court Case
It was an unlikely meeting, one that came through multiple layers of mutual friends. Dan Backer, an attorney who won his biggest case...