It could be a seismic shift in how tens of millions of campaign dollars are spent.

Republicans have waged a decades-long battle to blow up the campaign-finance laws that rein in big-money spending. Now, they are making a play that could end in their biggest victory since the Citizens United ruling in 2010.

The GOP is growing increasingly optimistic about their prospects in a little-noticed lawsuit that would allow official party committees and candidates to coordinate freely by removing current spending restrictions. If successful, it would represent a seismic shift in how tens of millions of campaign dollars are spent and upend a well-established political ecosystem for TV advertising.

An eventual victory in the lawsuit, filed last November by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, would eliminate the need for House and Senate campaign committees of any party to set up separate operations to make so-called independent expenditures to boost candidates with TV ads.

  • MedicatedMaybe@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The USA’s days as a “democratic republic” are numbered. The only thing we can do is slow down the decent a little bit. Don’t fool yourself that this country isn’t on a fast track to christofascism. Its game man. Not only are we dealing with it from within we also have china and Russia foaming at the mouth with how successful their propaganda has been. 40 percent of this country is cheering it on and can’t wait to become the spitting image of Russia.

    Things are going to get a lot worse and I think it will happen faster than you think. Look how fast Florida took… It was a swing state not long ago. Now it’s one of the testing spots for how fascism will work in this country.

    If you aren’t a white Christian male you better figure out how to pretend to be one. Or at the very least get out of red states while you can if you can.

    Because it doesn’t seem like anybody in this country is willing to really fight against it. Off to the next thing I’m outraged about for a week and then moving on.

    The new world order is coming and it’s going to suck even worse.

    Vote like your life depends on it because it just might.

      • MedicatedMaybe@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        Not sure how a duck would help but I can’t imagine it would hurt. Now if you’re talking about growing a dick you can either do that in your garden or pick one up at your local grocery store. The fun thing about growing your own dick is you can grow it to whatever size fits your needs. Just insert it into your manliest pants and they’ll be none the wiser.

        Also make sure you wear like a really gaudy gold cross necklace. Then you just want to go around town stating really ignorant things that you believe in that are very easily disproven. You really want to trick them you may have to indulge in their racist, homophobic, transphobic, or really any kind of derogatory talk will work.