Gov. Mike Braun’s post-election fundraising committees continue to draw major support from Indiana’s business community less than a year into his first term as governor, according to new Federal Election Commission filings.
Some locally elected officials now have to file annual campaign finance reports following a new state law.
Secretary of State Diego Morales included footage that blended government resources and property with a partisan campaign in a manner that Indianapolis election officials believe could violate state law.
Former Indiana Congressional candidate Gabriel “Gabe” Whitley admittedly falsified campaign finance records and lied about raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions ahead of the May 2024 primary.
The race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court drew $100 million in campaign spending, attack ads and the attention of President Donald Trump and close ally Elon Musk.
Former Indiana congressional candidate Gabriel ‘Gabe’ Whitley is admitting that he falsified campaign finance records, saying he lied about raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions ahead of the May 2024 primary.
When it comes to government transparency laws, Indiana often ranks near the bottom in terms of what it requires public officials and political activists to disclose.
Republicans are pouring financial resources into a handful of legislative races around the state, recognizing potentially tight margins with an aim to protect the party’s supermajority hold in the General Assembly.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jennifer McCormick’s campaign team called for Republican opponent Mike Braun to immediately pull the ad, saying it “violates the principles of transparency and integrity voters deserve in campaign advertising by changing the text on the signs in voters’ hands.”
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court’s ruling that denied a preliminary injunction for the Indiana Right to Life Victory Fund and a media company against two provisions of Indiana law dealing with campaign finance restrictions.
Multiple Republican campaigns and committees that received political donations from disgraced former Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel said they have no plans to return or donate those dollars elsewhere — while numerous others are keeping mum, distancing themselves from Noel altogether.
Donald Trump’s hush money trial is heading into the final stretch, with prosecutors’ last and star witness back on the stand Monday for more grilling before the former president’s lawyers get their chance to put on a case.
The Wisconsin Ethics Commission, which recommended last month that charges be filed, announced the local prosecutors’ decisions in a memo prepared for a Friday meeting. Charges were also forwarded to district attorneys in three additional counties but they had yet to inform the commission of their plans.
Republican Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita finished 2023 with nearly $1.1 million in his campaign coffers as he mounts his reelection bid this year.
Candidates for statewide office filed their campaign finance reports for the second half of 2023 on Wednesday, offering more insight into just how expensive the competitive GOP primary in the 2024 Indiana governor’s race is becoming.
U.S. Senate candidate John Rust gave big to his own campaign during the third quarter, which he says is a sign that he won’t be propped up by political action committees.
Indiana election law’s silence on corporate contributions to independent-expenditure political action committees means such contributions are prohibited or otherwise limited, a split Indiana Supreme Court has ruled.
In a case where both sides seemingly have the same position — that limiting corporate contributions to certain political action committees would be unconstitutional — the Indiana Supreme Court is weighing how to interpret state law.
Three top GOP candidates for Indiana governor far out-raised their fellow hopefuls in semi-annual campaign finance reports released Monday, with U.S. Sen. Mike Braun recording the largest haul.
Republican frontrunner U.S. Rep. Jim Banks continues to dramatically out-raise other contenders for Indiana’s open Senate seat in the November election, raising more than $1 million in the second quarter.