End dark money in American elections and make government more accountable to voters.

Rick Larsen · Washington · Democratic

policy impact 0.70 specificity 0.80 extraction confidence 86%

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Occurrences

Representative Rick Larsen (WA-02) joined 184 colleagues in both houses of Congress in reintroducing the DISCLOSE Act, legislation to end dark money in American elections and make government more accountable to the will of voters.

Larsen reintroduced the DISCLOSE Act, committing to end dark money in elections and increase government accountability to voters.

News List | U.S. Representative Rick Larsen
primary · press_release · model gpt-5.5

Evidence

In the Voting Rights section, Larsen says he is committed to protecting voting rights and democratic institutions and says he has voted for legislation to end gerrymandering, require disclosure of dark money, expand voting opportunities, and restore voting-rights protections.

Current campaign messaging shows support for dark-money disclosure and broader democracy reforms. That is real progress, but it does not show that dark money has been ended.

partial same_term A for effort

Issues - Rick Larsen for Congress
campaign · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 79%

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The House office homepage shows June 18, June 10, and June 9, 2026 updates and recent legislative items focused on ocean monitoring, ICE funding, Library of Congress reform, fraud prevention, and FISA; none are about campaign-finance disclosure or dark money.

Recent official office activity in the lookback window does not show a new dark-money action. This is an inference from the page contents, so the commitment still appears unresolved.

unresolved same_term

U.S. Representative Rick Larsen
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 71%

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Assessments

never unknown A for effort

The promised outcome was to end dark money in elections and make government more accountable to voters. The evidence shows Rick Larsen publicly supported and voted for legislation requiring dark-money disclosure and related democracy reforms, which is a serious legislative effort. But there is no evidence here that dark money was ended or that the broader promised outcome was achieved. Under the scoring rule for a serious attempt that did not deliver the outcome, this counts as never, with an effort badge.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 86%