The Price List: Who Pays for the Politics in Your Feed, and Why No One Has to Tell You
Both parties pay creators to post politics as their own. So did Russian state media. Part 1 of an FMNN investigation: the rates, the payers, the money trail and the gap in federal law that keeps it hidden.
Who Paid to Bring This Circus to Jacksonville?
The pardoned Jan. 6 rioter brought slurs to Monday's Duval school board meeting under police guard. His campaign shows almost no money. The hundreds of thousands raised in his name online don't have to be accounted for.
Opinion | Musk Outspent Soros and Still Lost Texas. Now the Subsidy King Is Eyeing Florida.
OPINION: The Cape went quiet while Musk spent a record fortune to keep Texas red, and lost. Florida should read the fine print before it becomes his next safe harbor.
Analysis | "Poor People Don't Deserve" St. Pete: Inside the Schorsch Machine That Helped Elect Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist says he hired Michelle Todd Schorsch, not her husband. State records show his committee paid her firm, her husband's company and her personally $946,617, which is 41 cents of every dollar it spent. Then the husband told poor residents to move.
The Subsidy King, Part 1: From Pretoria to Tesla
Elon Musk sells a self-made story. The record starts in apartheid-era Pretoria, runs through two companies that removed him as CEO, and lands at a car company two other men founded.
The Subsidy King, Part 3: DOGE and the Wood Chipper
Musk ran DOGE while his companies faced $2.37 billion in possible federal penalties, then fed USAID "into the wood chipper." Researchers have tried to count the cost in lives.
The Subsidy King, Part 4: Soft Power, Hard Questions
USAID was America's eyes and ears in the countries it competes for. China moved in after the cuts. Is Musk a foreign agent? The record says no, but shows real risks.
The Subsidy King, Part 5: The Man at Home and the Trillion
His ex-wife, his eldest daughter and the mothers of his children, in their own words. Then $442 million in midterm spending, $225 million in Texas, and a blue Texas anyway.
The Subsidy King, Part 2: The Rescues and the Broken Promises
In 2008, public money kept SpaceX and Tesla alive. Then came the moon program, self-driving that wasn't, and a tunnel under sinkhole country in Nashville.
The Harvest Plan: Money First, Laws in 2029
Democrats won the House and at least 54 Senate seats. Trump still has the veto. Here is the step-by-step math on Medicare for All, a $20 wage, Citizens United, the Iran war and aid to Israel: what passes in 2027, what waits for 2029, and why the power of the purse is the real weapon.
Opinion | AIPAC Spent $104 Million on the Midterms. Its Biggest Bet Just Lost.
AIPAC spent $104 million this cycle, much of it from Republican megadonors, often in ads that never mention Israel. Its $30 million bet against El-Sayed lost. Florida Democrats should take the hint.
Larry Ellison Trust Gave $1 Million to Super PAC Backing Lindsey Graham's Sister in S.C. Senate Race
The super PAC that backed Lindsey Graham has spent millions in South Carolina's Senate race and now backs his sister, Sen. Darline Graham. Its donors include a $1 million Larry Ellison trust and two tobacco companies.
Abramovich Money Helped Build Curaleaf. Now It Runs 77 Florida Dispensaries.
Early loans from a company controlled by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich helped build Curaleaf, which now runs 77 Florida dispensaries. Massachusetts investigated and cleared it. FMNN found no record that Florida ever asked.