An easy way to unveil the corporate interests and tech billionaires behind the ads

Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Katie Phang argued that the Epstein files are a midterms sledgehammer. Today’s edition was written by Judd Legum, the founder and author of Popular Information. Sign up for future editions here.

An unprecedented influx of cash from tech billionaires and corporate interests has been injected into the midterms to sway the election.

We don’t have to accept the world as it is. There are several ways we can combat dark money, as the balance of power shifts in Washington.

Major changes in US law and industry have shifted the sources of large contributions to political campaigns – and how much they spend

The upcoming midterm elections will be the most expensive elections ever conducted in the US. And more of the money is “dark” than ever before, meaning it’s impossible to get a full picture of who is spending gargantuan sums to influence races that could provide a critical check on Donald Trump’s second term.

The elections have also shown how money in politics is being reshaped, with the increasingly powerful role played by big donors from the tech industry as well as the growing concentration of spending among a few powerful individuals and corporations.