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Disclosure, in the campaign finance context, refers to laws and regulations requiring candidates and political groups to report information about their activities to the ...

Contribution limits are monetary restrictions on the amount an individual or group can donate to a political actor – usually a candidate, political party, ...

Tax-financed campaigns are government-operated programs that seek to replace or supplement private, voluntary campaign contributions with government grants of taxpayer dollars to candidates who ...

Questions about free speech and the First Amendment are often decided at the Supreme Court. Over the years, the Court has dealt with such ...

Super PACs are simply groups of like-minded citizens pooling their resources to support or oppose political candidates independently of those candidates’ campaigns. The product ...

The First Amendment guarantees every American freedom of speech. That freedom includes the right to spend money on speech. Without money, a political group ...

Political parties have been an important actor in American politics since this country’s founding. Parties have been a boon to First Amendment freedoms of ...

The First Amendment guarantees that “Congress shall make no law respecting … the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the ...

The First Amendment protects speech from burdensome government regulation. Until the 1970s, federal law largely did not regulate either campaign speech or issue speech ...

Groups seeking tax-exempt status as a nonprofit organization must apply to the IRS to obtain this classification. Advocacy nonprofits, designated by a 501(c)(4) status, ...