A peer-reviewed study confirms campaign contributions statistically increase the odds of receiving tariff exemptions — and agribusiness spent a 20-year record to play that game.

Federal lobbying disclosures show AstraZeneca outpaced the pharmaceutical industry's average lobbying surge by more than double as it negotiated a government pricing agreement whose full terms remain hidden from the public.

When regulators chose not to require corporations to disclose political spending to shareholders, they handed the tax-lobbying industry a structural shield that has never been removed.

Indian public records show a sitting Congress MP chaired a steel company that received coal block allocations from a screening committee his own party controlled — a conflict at the heart of a $33 billion governance failure.

When the White House controls who pays tariffs and who doesn't, corporations spend millions buying access to that discretion — and the public record shows exactly who hired whom.

Public filings show oil companies spent tens of millions lobbying Sacramento while collecting profits California's own governor calls 'shrouded in mystery.'

Two Sullivan County producers used a state administrative law to deploy New York taxpayer resources against a New York City regulation, and the public record still cannot account for what it cost.

A merger worth billions, a lawsuit against a news program, and a regulator who serves at the president's pleasure have converged into a documented pressure system targeting broadcast license holders.

The death of Senator Lindsey Graham has frozen one of the most powerful Senate fundraising operations in U.S. history, and federal records will determine who inherits its donors, its surplus cash, and its outside-spending allies.

A statutory crude-oil buying obligation, a $2.8 billion lobbying apparatus, and an Energy Secretary drawn from the industry it now regulates form a documented feedback loop at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Public records connect defense industry financial interests, a former Raytheon executive who became Secretary of Defense, and a post-strike lobbying surge to the sustained U.S. confrontation with Iran that began February 28, 2026.

A federally engineered lease fee disparity is driving farmland conversion debates while fossil fuel producers quietly pay less for public land than solar developers — and the lobbying money on both sides tells the rest of the story.

The federal government has stood up a multi-agency UAP advisory architecture with real statutory authority and real procurement power — and the public cannot identify a single official running it.

A single Washington lobbying shop collecting $520,000 from a Ukrainian defense industry group while simultaneously representing Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics sits at the center of a $51.5 billion-per-quarter influence ecosystem built around Ukraine's survival.

Across two administrations, the Justice Department used grand jury subpoenas, FISA database queries, and gag orders to monitor the communications of sitting lawmakers — spending from a $38 billion annual budget with no itemized accountability for any of it.

From North Macedonia's ruling party to U.S. Super PACs, documented public records reveal six distinct mechanisms by which political funds are diverted from voters to power brokers — and the regulatory gaps that make it legal.

Federal regulators accelerated a rare license review of eight ABC stations years ahead of schedule, but Disney's actual lobbying expenditures — the money meant to prevent exactly this — remain undisclosed to the public.

A decade of semiconductor industry lobbying produced a law that handed the executive branch near-total discretion over the largest pot of federal manufacturing money since World War II — while a 157,000-worker shortage goes unaddressed.

Public records show the arms industry added 220 lobbyists, targeted the exact lawmakers who control defense dollars, and received a war supplemental that pushes annual military spending past one trillion dollars.

The nation's largest senior advocacy organization earns the bulk of its revenue from royalties on insurance products sold by the same company whose federal reimbursement rates AARP actively lobbies to shape.