Michael Winship interviews Mayor Gayle McLaughlin about the oil giant’s expensive campaign to defeat her and other progressive candidates in the small city of Richmond, California.
The independent senator from Vermont urges the citizens of Richmond, California, to stand up to the oil giant and "give hope to people all over America that we can control our destinies."
Democrat spending has kept pace with conservative dollars by and large, but Republicans still dominate at least one facet of the outside money equation: dark money.
Judicial retention elections in Kansas have typically been apolitical and uncontested — until Kansans for Justice entered the fray earlier this month. Now the state's grappling with a new kind of dark money.