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14 articles about 12 events for “Elon Musk's Political Donations” from The Guardian. Events are ordered by how widely they were covered, how many readers opened them, and how recent they are.
“Meanwhile, the midterms were an expensive and unsuccessful excursion for Elon Musk, and for big oil and gas, as Emily Atkins of Heated reported, with the industry spending at least $182m to try to get Republicans elected.”
“Elon Musk poured a staggering $446m dollars into Republican-aligned political action committees (Pacs) and groups since last year, but his efforts didn’t pay off.”
“Republican-aligned groups poured hundreds of millions of dollars into efforts to elect Paxton, including substantial funding linked to billionaire Elon Musk.”
“Elon Musk has poured so much money into US politics this midterms election cycle that his donations could fund half a dozen SpaceX rocket launches or buy thousands of Tesla Cybertrucks.”
“…r longstanding legislation requiring full disclosure of the sources of $1bn of dark money, and they must pass Senator Chris Van Hollen’s new bill closing loopholes that let federal contractors – and their owners, such as Elon Musk – easily circumvent the…”
“Much of the dark and functionally dark money has come from Super Pacs funded by billionaires, including Elon Musk and Jeff Yass, and corporate interests, particularly the AI and crypto industries.”
“On Tuesday the voters will have their say on whether the four-term state representative, a Presbyterian seminarian preaching a gospel of hope, can overcome Republican Ken Paxton, a scandal-haunted state attorney general and Trump ally who has financial…”
“The federal government is down more than 420,000 workers after Elon Musk was given the power to introduce massive jobs cuts after donating nearly $300m to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.”
““The fact that we have a trillionaire who is trying to control American politics is pretty good evidence of that,” he added, speaking of Elon Musk’s Republican donations – now over $442m for the midterm elections.”
“James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Texas, has taken aim at Elon Musk, warning that the tech mogul is trying to buy political influence and declaring: “Texas is not for sale.””
“Besides Trump’s money, Republicans are being aided by the president’s ally Elon Musk, who has spent $366m on conservative groups and campaigns so far.”
“Stat of the day: Elon Musk becomes biggest donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent Musk’s midterm donations, mostly for rightwing candidates and causes, surpass his contributions to Trump in 2024.”
“The tech mogul’s spending spree is also a reversal from a period in the middle of last year when Musk claimed he would step back from making such large-scale political donations.”
“This would risk the usual culture war debate about free speech, while we blithely accept the changes to our culture and society that are being freely imposed by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and others.”