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  • Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere.

  • Lobbying spending reached record levels during President Trump’s second term due to his administration’s expansive tariffs, industrial policies, and regulatory changes.

  • It didn't work.

  • Norlite has hired expensive lobbyists to directly reach out to officials at the same state agencies actively suing the company, the Times Union found.

  • The European Union is under pressure to ban "forever chemicals" but a battle is heating up over the toxic substances known as PFAS in Brussels, where industry groups are seeking as many exemptions as .

  • Harvard spent $620,000 on lobbying the federal government in 2024 — the most it’s spent since 2010 — as the University attempts to dissuade lawmakers from imposing a larger endowment tax and other .

  • President-Elect Trump’s potential nominees for the Cabinet and other high-level offices in his second Administration have been at the top of the news for the past several weeks.

  • Lobbying is a controversial and often misunderstood activity.

  • Democratic Senate candidates have generally out-raised Republicans, but are struggling to match outside spending from Trump-affiliated groups.