Oct 18, 2022 · The bulk of Amazon-affiliated contributions to congressional and federal candidates went to Democrats — around 68% of the total amount of donated dollars, per OpenSecrets.

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Amazon and the Bezos family have spent nearly $17 million this election cycle. Amazon’s and the Bezoses’ PACs spent over two-thirds of total spending on Republicans. PACs linked to the Bezoses spent 4x as much on independent spending to back Republicans.

Jan 6, 2021 · Even as the Republican Attorneys General Association has leaned further into promoting Trumpism and sowing doubt about U.S. elections, major sponsors including Amazon, Walmart and Home Depot have...

98 out of 131 Amazon.com lobbyists in 2023 have previously held government jobs.

Jul 13, 2021 · Two Republican lawmakers who have pushed to rein in the dominance of Amazon and other tech companies in consumer markets are seizing on the emails as evidence that Amazon unfairly used its...

Oct 26, 2022 · Amazon’s political action committee sent at least $17,500 total to nine different such GOP Representatives in just the month of September, as first reported by Judd Legum on his news site...

Feb 15, 2022 · In the weeks following last year’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, Amazon suspended all campaign donations to the 147 Republicans who objected to certifying the election that day, calling their...

Apr 3, 2021 · Amazon said in a statement Tuesday that it supports efforts to "protect and expand" voting rights. But the company spent more than $500,000 last election cycle funding politicians who oppose those...

Jul 15, 2021 · Two Republican lawmakers, seizing on newly surfaced Defense Department emails, are calling for hearings on Amazon’s efforts to win a cloud-computing contract for the U.S. military worth as much...