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'Squad' rakes in record $2.35M while slamming the door on cop donations

The fund, created in twenty twenty for four lawmakers, now shares donations among eight participants; its donor rules also bar corporations, federal lobbyists and fossil fuel interests.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Squad Victory Fund raised a record two million, three hundred fifty-one thousand, three hundred eighty-eight dollars and two cents this cycle.

  2. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTwo cents. They counted the two cents. Sorry, I get emotional when a number is that precise.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe fund started in twenty twenty for four lawmakers, and now four allied PACs share it, so the money gets split eight ways, twelve point five percent each.

  4. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistEight ways, equally. That's the nicest thing I've heard in a forecast all week, and it isn't even one.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTheir twenty twenty cycle receipts were one point five million, so this tops it. It also bars the police union, corporations and lobbyists from giving.

  6. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistA record, and the guest list is picky. That's a sold-out tour.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's a filing, Brock. The only chart it's on is the one the Federal Election Commission keeps.

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