Dark Money’s Plan To Keep States In The Dark

In an illustrated image, a spotlight shines down on a pile of money.

As dark money spending breaks all records this election season, corporate-backed groups are trying to strike down one of the strongest state-level dark money transparency laws in the country in a key swing state.

Last year, voters in Arizona overwhelmingly passed a ballot measure — Prop 211 — that requires dark money groups funding political advertising in the state to reveal the original source of their money. The unprecedented law is now one of the most far-reaching dark money transparency laws in the country.