These tallies will cover all independent expenditures filed with the FEC to date in races I’m watching by the end of the day yesterday, August 30, and report new independent expenditures filed with the FEC since the last PAC Tracker’s cutoff, August 23. Future editions will update the
This is Part II of the Massachusetts primary preview, covering the state House. Part I can be found here. In Western Mass legislative primaries, I was aided by local insight from Matt Szafranski, a Springfield-area attorney who runs wmasspi.com, a local political news site with a Western Mass
Hi, everyone—the Massachusetts preview is so long that I have to break it up into two, because many email providers won't be able to do it all as one email. (There's only so much I can do to keep it brief when there are more
MA-Sen: Never let it be said that Seth Moulton didn’t have enough money to beat Sen. Ed Markey. If he loses, it’s because voters just plain dislike him. MA-01: The scale of that spending by Rep. Richard Neal is breathtaking, and the vast majority of it
These tallies will cover all independent expenditures filed with the FEC to date in races I’m watching by the end of the day yesterday, August 23, and report new expenses filed with the FEC since the last PAC Tracker’s cutoff, August 16. Future editions will update the tallies
Before we get into the August recap, as promised, here's the regular issue; the recap is below, after a divider. A PAC Tracker and a Massachusetts pre-primary FEC roundup are also coming today. CA-34 A renewed wave of sexual misconduct allegations reminiscent of 2017’s original
A recap issue walking through the August primaries will be going out to all subscribers at the end of the week; this one is just tracking developments in races that are still live. CA-34 The bipartisan House Ethics Committee has confirmed the existence of an investigation into Los Angeles
Wyoming also has primaries today, but they're all on the Republican side—every remotely winnable district in both houses of the state legislature has an uncontested Democratic primary this year, which has not always been the case in past election cycles. That leaves us with just Florida and
I apologize for the interruption in our regularly scheduled programming. As a result of that unplanned but necessary hiatus, this PAC Tracker covers all independent expenditures filed with the FEC to date in races I’m watching by the end of the day yesterday, August 16, and reports new expenses
Hi everyone; sorry about the brief break to attend to some personal matters. I'm back and will be catching up in advance of the 8/18 primaries, starting with this FEC roundup; due to the brief and extremely unplanned break, I won't be putting the paywall
Without getting into too much detail, due to some unexpected bad news, I am going to have to take a break of a few days to attend to some family and personal matters. This means I won't be able to do the August 11 preview. I will catch
Aloha, and welcome to the Hawaiʻi primary preview. For a small state, it's a remarkably busy primary season; I decided to skip the primaries for governor and HI-02 as neither is particularly serious and the incumbents should win easily. Polls close at 7 PM Hawaiʻi time, which