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<div>2x disambig legit</div><div></div><div>Center for Responsive Politics: An analysis of federal campaign finance filings shows that Super PACs brought in more than $65 million from groups bankrolled by secret donors in 2019.  Super PACs aligned with congressional Republican and Democratic Party leadership have already received millions of dollars from so-called “dark money” groups during the 2020 election cycle. <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://americanpromise.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7df407720bf61a8c8416bb9e7&id=ae59325c8e&e=be363fc9ec" style="color: rgb(53, 106, 180); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read more</a>.</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/mysterious-dark-money-group-got-22-million-to-get-trump-scotus-pick-kavanaugh-confirmed/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/mysterious-dark-money-group-got-22-million-to-get-trump-scotus-pick-kavanaugh-confirmed/</a>A just-published report by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics’ award-winning OpenSecrets.org reveals the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative secretive dark money group <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/05/dark-money-group-funded-by-17million-mystery-donor-before-kavanaugh/#utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitt_dark-money-17m-kavanaugh-051719" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">received $22 million from anonymous donors</a> in the year leading up to the Tump administration and conservatives’ push to place Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Supreme Court.<div class="p1_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">$17 million of that $22 million came from one anonymous donor.<div class="p2_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="alt_ad_block story-page-in-content-graph-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/91c58df540884d698ceb35a529c34b08" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">pledged to spend</a> as much as $10 million to ensure Kavanaugh’s confirmation — the same amount that it <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170705003230/https://judicialnetwork.com/judicial-crisis-network-launches-10-million-campaign-preserve-justice-scalias-legacy-support-president-elect-trump-nominee/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">spent</a> to help confirm Justice Neil Gorsuch in 2017,” Anna Massoglia and Andrew Perez at OpenSecrets reveal in their report Friday.<div class="p3_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“JCN has <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secrets-of-leonard-leo-the-man-behind-trumps-supreme-court-pick?ref=scroll" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">close ties</a> to Trump’s judicial adviser Leonard Leo, a longtime executive at the Federalist Society, the influential conservative and libertarian lawyers network based in Washington, D.C.”<div class="p4_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you’re not familiar with the Judicial Crisis Network, here’s one of their ads you may have seen on TV in the run up to the Kavanaugh confirmation vote:[vid]Here’s where it gets even more disturbing.<div class="p7_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“The bulk of JCN’s funding has typically come from the Wellspring Committee, another secretive nonprofit run by operatives who wear multiple hats in a <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/trump-inauguration-money-links-secretive-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">larger network of opaque groups</a>.”<div class="p8_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">That “<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/trump-inauguration-money-links-secretive-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">larger network of opaque groups</a>” links to another OpenSecrets report: “New clues link $1 million Trump inauguration mystery money to secretive ‘dark money’ network.”<div class="p9_11" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">OpenSecrets adds, “Wellspring has continued to send <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/wellsprings-dark-money-crucial-to-trump-orbit/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">massive annual endowments</a> to JCN <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/09/kavanaugh-confirmation-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">since the group launched</a> in 2005. JCN, in turn, has continued to pour <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/10/only-a-fraction-of-dark-money-spending-on-kavanaugh-disclosed/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">tens of millions of dollars</a> into every subsequent Supreme Court nomination fight and working to reshape the judiciary. Wellspring reported donating <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5299936-Wellspring-Committee-2017-990.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">almost $15 million</a> to JCN in 2017, on top of <a href="https://maplight.org/story/tax-returns-identify-dark-money-organization-as-source-of-gop-supreme-court-attacks/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">$23.5 million</a> in 2016. Neither organization discloses the sources of its funds.”</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div></div><div><h1 id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482947956498_28088" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 50px; letter-spacing: -1px;">OpenSecrets Blog’s best of 2016</h1>For those of you who haven’t had time to read every word OpenSecrets Blog has published this past year, have no fear! We’ve compiled our best work<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=f9ab323036&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;"> right here.</a>  <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482947956498_28131" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">In partnership with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, we uncovered what may be the <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=06ed55eb94&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">largest straw donor scheme</a>  ever reported. A small law firm in Boston reimbursed its lawyers with bonus payments for the contributions they made to federal, state and local politicians — more than $1.4 million that we were able to document. CRP’s investigation spurred at least 20 politicians to  send <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=9bc2bf0861&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">almost $600,000 in donations</a> from the firm’s employees to the U.S. Treasury or charity. Federal prosecutors have <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=8d4156364a&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">opened a grand jury investigation</a>. <img height="179" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d/images/5797434a-2aba-5495-9617-5f74423cde0f.png" width="298" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border: 0px; outline: none; width: 298px; min-height: 179px; float: left; margin: 0px; height: auto !important;" /> We attempted to make sense of 2016, the most expensive election on record — with the lower spender winning the White House. Although Hillary Clinton and her allies spent double what team Trump did, Clinton’s <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=00809011f8&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">inordinately high dependence</a> on large donors may have been a sign that she wasn’t connecting with key segments of the electorate. But Trump’s (relatively) low-cost win was an exception to the overall rule: Congressional candidates with the most cash on their side prevailed at a higher rate than in recent past elections. We <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=d8b8a03049&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">forecast</a> the federal elections would cost a record-breaking nearly <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=6e0b0549b8&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">$7 billion</a>. We followed corporate and lobbyist money to the nominating  conventions in <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=6ad274fbfd&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal;">Cleveland</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=e3098b3b64&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal;">Philly</a>, pulling back the curtain on the special interest subtext to the schmoozing. While we were there, our designated survivor back home mined DNC documents released by Wikileaks to find that party officials asked the White House to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=c27c6ee62a&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal;">reward some donors with appointments</a> to boards and commissions. <img height="120" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d/images/27edd269-9106-5d31-becf-0ab4631dbc2f.jpg" width="120" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border: 0px; outline: none; width: 120px; min-height: 120px; float: right; margin: 0px; height: auto !important;" /><img height="100" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d/images/6df57e2f-d339-5482-b1c8-3a16855e0ddf.png" width="100" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482947956498_28179" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border: 0px; outline: none; width: 100px; min-height: 100px; float: left; margin: 0px; height: auto !important;" /> Our latest analysis of the correlation between <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=46c74c9728&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal;">votes and contributions</a> focused on climate change. Turns out that lawmakers who voted for an amendment stating that human activities contribute significantly to climate change received less than one-fifth as much in campaign contributions from the <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=2b212eaa98&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">oil & gas</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=10a4315a10&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">coal</a>We continued our unmatched coverage of dark money, breaking, for instance, the story that <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482947956498_28216" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" webkit-padding-start="webkit-padding-start" px="px" font-weight="font-weight">the <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=a8a932fa5a&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal;">IRS </a><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=0187b14298&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal;">granted </a><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482947956498_28212" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" webkit-padding-start="webkit-padding-start" px="px" font-weight="font-weight"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=4826e1ce3e&e=44dfb36771" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482947956498_28211" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal;">nonprofit status</a> to Karl Rove’s group after five years of back-and-forth. <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=93ffd328b3&e=44dfb36771" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" webkit-padding-start="webkit-padding-start" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" outline="outline" none="none" word-wrap="word-wrap" break-word="break-word">Read about how it happened</a>. (Our story caused the New York Times to lash out <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=184c0ad64a&e=44dfb36771" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" webkit-padding-start="webkit-padding-start" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" outline="outline" none="none" word-wrap="word-wrap" break-word="break-word">with an editorial</a> titled “Karl Rove Bamboozles the I.R.S.”) The shadowy giant Crossroads GPS reported $114 million in political spending in its first four years, and dodged reporting millions more. Conversely, GPS’s new incarnation, One Nation, went from reporting no revenue to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=66d8b4ee26&e=44dfb36771" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482947956498_28282" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" webkit-padding-start="webkit-padding-start" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" outline="outline" none="none" word-wrap="word-wrap" break-word="break-word">bringing in more than $10 million</a> in 2015. industries as those who voted against it. 
</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482947956498_28288" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"> Once <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=f6a03ad2c5&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Donald Trump</a> was elected and began naming his Cabinet picks, we dug around to see what these men and women have been doing with their money when it comes to politics.  For example, our potential new Education secretary, Betsy DeVos, and her relatives have given <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=7b9bdbb779&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">at least $20.2 million</a> to Republican political groups and candidates since 1989. We broke down the most interesting donations and foundations for you, but also published our data so you can <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=b70f703808&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">play with it</a> as well. The funding histories of nominees who have been on the receiving end of the cash chase — current or former elected officials like <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=3a8cbaa091&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Ryan Zinke</a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=c4f013ba35&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Rick Perry</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=22663a8e10&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Tom Price</a> — are equally worth examining, we showed. Along with all this great journalism, we created some new tools to help other reporters and the public dive deep themselves. One helps <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=f87611213e&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">track ad buys more easily.</a> Our tool allows you to search by group, candidate, zip code or station, with links to the original purchase contracts for the air time. Finally, we have taken over 2 projects from the Sunlight Foundation: Political Party Time, to help track candidates’ fundraising events, and one that tracks lobbyists for foreign interests trying to influence our government. The former is now accepting uploads of invitations — <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=ac99350fad&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">please contribute</a> to this crowdsourcing effort! The latter is coming soon.   </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482947956498_28371" style="text-align: left; -webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=cfd5b37940&e=44dfb36771" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">To see more of our highlights from 2016 - click here!</a></div></div><div></div>