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"Federal regulators' enforcement of what remain of America's campaign finance laws has all but collapsed. It's a story that has received some attention, but the whole picture remains largely obscured in the mainstream media.

"Since 2009, the agencies tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws — notably those governing what super PACs and 'social welfare' organizations can and cannot do to advance their political agendas — have, to varying degrees, been severely constrained from doing their jobs. Campaign finance watchdogs say they're frustrated by their inability to get the FEC and the IRS to act on even airtight cases alleging campaign finance violations.

"It's a notable departure from the 'broken windows' theory that dominates the policing of people who don't have the kind of political clout our donor class enjoys."

-- Joshua Holland, contributing writer at The Nation, in "The Most Undercovered Stories of 2015 (Part One)" (Moyers & Company), 2015-12-23