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dark money

[dahrk muhn-ee]

noun

  1. money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dark money1

First recorded in 2010–15
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Example Sentences

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Worse, the party allows dark money in its primaries and is heavily reliant on it in general elections.

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An infusion of dark money to the Tom Cruise estate in exchange for the production of a “woke Top Gun sequel.”

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No, in this moment of conservative judicial ascendancy, carefully strategized by political strategists and ideologues over decades, funded like a political campaign with dark money millions, with the Court now gift-wrapped for the right by generations to come, one must not speak of politics at all.

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Before he became Senate GOP leader, McConnell was perhaps best known for his advocacy on behalf of unlimited, anonymous donations in political campaigns, repeatedly tussling with former Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., over campaign finance reform and leading efforts to open the floodgates of so-called “dark money” even after the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 was signed into law.

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Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd that the “toxic fear and division” they felt on social media and their struggles to afford everyday expenses were the “logical, inevitable conclusion of an American political system dominated by corporate and dark money.”

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