Organizers see political and legal battles ahead for a novel solution to America’s campaign finance fiasco

Published May 28, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

Dark money (Douglas Rissing via Getty Images)

Political spending that is funneled into elections from a variety of nonprofits is known as dark money — and unlike campaign spending or the money deployed by PACs and super PACs, these sources are not required to disclose their donors. Following the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision , which created the country’s current election spending landscape, this has ramped up dramatically, with the 2024 election seeing a record $1.9 billion in dark money spending, nearly double the $1 billion spent in 2020.…