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Weekly Digests are published every Friday and summarize the week's publicly disclosed activity. Press releases are published as news happens.
FEC Record articles inform candidates and committees about FEC developments and are published as news happens. Access Record articles from 1975 through 2004 on the Record archive page. Tips for Treasurers are published once a week.
On August 12, 2025, the FEC will retire the Searchable Advisory Opinion System (SAOS), a legacy search tool on the FEC website designed to search Commission advisory opinions (AOs) and …
Read morePoliticalmeetings.com (PM.com) may allow its subscribers to make small monthly contributions to candidates and national political party committees via its web-based platform and provide subscribers access to non-public information about …
Read moreThe Libertarian Party of Idaho, the Libertarian Party of Maine, Inc., the Libertarian Party of Maryland, and the Libertarian Party of Vermont (“Requestors”) qualify as state party committees under the …
Read moreThe Government Accountability Institute (GAI)’s television and radio appearances and publication of books, articles, editorials, reports, documentaries, podcasts, video shorts, and commentary on websites and social media accounts and in …
Read moreCampaign Legal Center (CLC) may file a complaint with the Commission pursuant to 52 U.S.C. § 30109(a)(1) if it believes a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act (the Act) …
Read moreThe Democratic Party of Puerto Rico (DPPR) qualifies as a state party committee under the Federal Election Campaign Act.
The determination of a state party organization’s status as the …
Read moreThe American Samoa Democratic Party (ASDP) qualifies as a state party committee under the Federal Election Campaign Act.
The determination of a state party organization’s status as the state …
Read moreAdvisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.
Advisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.
The Unified Libertarians of Massachusetts (ULM) qualifies as a state party committee under the Federal Election Campaign Act.
The determination of a state party organization’s status as the state …
Read moreCongresswoman Nanette Barragán may use campaign funds to pay for certain eldercare expenses to the extent they are incurred as a direct result of her own campaign activity or certain …
Read moreA party committee and the principal campaign committee of a candidate may evenly split the cost of a hybrid television advertisement when the time and space devoted to the candidate …
Read moreOn October 10, 2024, the Commission considered an advisory opinion request from DSCC, Montanans for Tester and Gallego for Arizona, concerning their proposed formation of joint fundraising committees to run …
Read moreFormer Representative Alan Lowenthal may not use his remaining campaign funds to a pay an assistant or editor to help draft a book or other publication because such payments would …
Read moreA single contribution limit applies to the entire ranked-choice voting process in Maine’s 2024 U.S. Senate election, because the entire process, including all rounds of vote tallying, constitutes a single …
Read moreUtah Senate candidate Caroline Gleich’s campaign may pay her salary earned during the campaign in the 20-day period following termination of her candidacy. In addition, Ms. Gleich may continue to …
Read moreA candidate’s principal campaign committee may participate in a joint fundraiser with a Super PAC, so long as the committee and other entities affiliated with or acting on behalf …
Read moreAdvisory opinion requests (AORs) pending before the Commission as of the end of the month are listed. Procedures for commenting on pending AORs are described here.
On August 29, 2024, the Commission considered an advisory opinion request from American Target Advertising and The Conservative Caucus (requestors). Requestors asked whether and how to report as independent expenditures …
Read moreA principal campaign committee may ask its general election contributors to redesignate their contributions to its recount fund.
Representative Bob Good was a candidate for the Republican nomination in …
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