{"id":77815,"date":"2026-08-24T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/top-us-firms-that-backed-voting-rights-act-donate-to-groups-working-to-undermine-it\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:55:02","slug":"top-us-firms-that-backed-voting-rights-act-donate-to-groups-working-to-undermine-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/top-us-firms-that-backed-voting-rights-act-donate-to-groups-working-to-undermine-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Top US firms that backed Voting Rights Act donate to groups working to undermine it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog data shared with Guardian shows contributions to Republican Attorneys General Association and others<\/p>\n<p>Over a dozen US companies that signed a 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessforvotingrights.com\/letter-to-congress\">letter<\/a> urging Congress to strengthen the Voting Rights Act continue to contribute to state political groups that are actively working to undermine the legislation, according to a campaign finance watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Center for Political Accountability (CPA), a nonpartisan organization that tracks financial disclosures, found that companies \u2013 including Airbnb, DoorDash, Target and Zillow \u2013 that signed the letter are contributing to groups known as 527 organizations that prop up key state races, according to data provided exclusively to the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/24\/us-companies-voting-rights-raga\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watchdog data shared with Guardian shows contributions to Republican Attorneys General Association and others Over a dozen US companies that signed a 2021 letter urging Congress to strengthen the Voting Rights Act continue to contribute to state political groups that are actively working to undermine the legislation, according to a campaign finance watchdog. Researchers at &#8230; <a title=\"Top US firms that backed Voting Rights Act donate to groups working to undermine it\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/top-us-firms-that-backed-voting-rights-act-donate-to-groups-working-to-undermine-it\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Top US firms that backed Voting Rights Act donate to groups working to undermine it\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}