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OpenSecrets Blog is home to the original journalism and reporting from the staff of the Center for Responsive Politics / OpenSecrets.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that tracks the influence of money in federal politics. Topics covered by OpenSecrets Blog include campaign finance issues, lobbying, ethics, elections, federal earmarks, outside spending, influence peddling and the personal investments of lawmakers. The OpenSecrets Blog is edited by Dave Levinthal, previously a political reporter for The Dallas Morning News. Michael Beckel and Evan Mackinder are the OpenSecrets Blog's main writers.

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