Campaign Finance

Alaska: “How Alaska Wound Up with No Limits on Campaign Donations – and How Some Hope to Restore Them” by Eric Stone for Alaska Public Media

National: “Feds Ask Ted Cruz’s Campaign to Explain Dozens of Illegal Donations It Received” by Sanford Nowlin for San Antonio Current

Oklahoma: “Corporation Commissioners Have Accepted Thousands in Donations, Raising Ethical Questions” by Kennedy Thomason (The Oklahoman) for MSN

Elections

National: “Pro-Israel PAC Notches Striking Electoral Victories with Bush, Bowman Defeats” by Patrick Svitek (Washington Post) for MSN

National: “Man Who Violently Fought Cops Gets 2nd-Longest Jan. 6 Sentence: 20 years” by Tom Jackman (Washington Post) for MSN

Ethics

California: “Nonprofit Linked to OC Supervisor’s Daughter Says It Won’t Refund $2.2M in Taxpayer Funds Demanded by County” by Nick Gerda (LAist) for MSN

Kentucky: “Louisville Official Says She Was in the Process of Filing Ethics Complaints When Fired” by Eleanor McCrary (Louisville Courier Journal) for MSN

Lobbying

North Carolina: “Group That Took NC Legislators on Bourbon Tour Violates Ethics Rules, Complaint Says” by Dan Kane and Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi (Raleigh News and Observer) for MSN