Prevent big-money donors from creating late-election super PACs to hide their motivations and mislead voters.

introduced the Stopping Hidden Interests and Non-Disclosure in Elections Act ( SHINE Act ). This legislation prevents big money donors from creating shady super PACs just weeks before an election to shield their motivations and mislead voters.

Crow introduced the SHINE Act to stop big donors from forming super PACs shortly before elections to obscure their interests.

Fighting Corruption | Representative Jason Crow
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Congress.gov lists H.R.1118, the DISCLOSE Act of 2023, with latest action on 07/11/2023 and says: "This bill has the status Introduced." The CRS summary says the bill would require additional disclosures of campaign expenditures and political advertisements, including 24-hour FEC reports for covered organizations and disclosure of top donors in ads.

The main federal bill matching the promise's disclosure goal did not become law in the 118th Congress; it remained only introduced, so it did not prevent late-election super PAC donor concealment.

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H.R.1118 - DISCLOSE Act of 2023, 118th Congress (2023-2024)
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The Congress.gov cosponsor list for H.R.1118 includes "Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6]*" with the date "02/21/2023."

Crow cosponsored concrete campaign-finance disclosure legislation related to revealing money behind political spending, but cosponsorship alone did not fulfill the promise because the bill was not enacted.

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Cosponsors - H.R.1118 - DISCLOSE Act of 2023
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Axios reported that "pop-up" super PACs were used by both parties to move money from national donors into local-sounding front groups, and that Campaign Legal Center filed an FEC complaint alleging the practice was designed to keep voters in the dark.

This describes the precise problem named in the promise: late or temporary super PACs with local branding can obscure the source and motive of big-money support until after voters act.

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Legal complaint targets bipartisan front groups
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The Washington Post reported that SpeechNow "erased limits on contributions to political committees that make independent expenditures" and that independent expenditures in federal races reached $4.2 billion by 2024, mostly due to super PACs.

As of later federal service after Crow's 2024 reelection, super PACs still operated with unlimited contributions; the promised prevention had not been achieved.

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A case that lets billionaires spend big on elections never reached Supreme Court
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