Campaign Finance

National: “Appeals Court Backs Greater Disclosure of ‘Dark Money’ Donors” by Josh Gerstein for Politico

North Carolina: “Powerful NC Lawmaker Took Donors’ Money for His Own Use, Prosecutors Say” by Will Doran for Raleigh News and Observer

Elections

National: “Trump’s Suggestion of Deploying Law Enforcement Officials to Monitor Polls Raises Specter of Voting intimidation” by Rosalind Helderman, Josh Dawsey, and Matt Zapotosky for Washington Post

National: “The Pandemic Is Creating a New Crop of Political Candidates: Unemployed workers” by Eli Rosenberg for Washington Post

Tennessee: “Tennessee Gov Signs Bill Upping Penalties on Some Protests” by Kimberlee Kruesi and Jonathan Mattise for Associated Press News

Ethics

Missouri: “Plenty of Blame: Audit slams Page, council and county auditor for failures that enabled Stenger schemes” by Jeremy Kohler for St. Louis Post-Dispatch

New York: “N.Y. Attorney General Asks Judge to Order Eric Trump’s Testimony” by William Rashbaum and Danny Hakim for New York Times

Ohio: “How Mid-Level Ohio Political Operative Jeff Longstreth Found Himself at Heart of Householder Scandal” by Jesse Balmert (Cincinnati Enquirer) for Akron Beacon Journal

Lobbying

National: “New Bill Seeks to Bring Lobbying Out of the Shadows” by Donald Shaw for Sludge