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Cash for Clout database: Tennessee's million-dollar club • Tennessee Lookout [1]

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Date: 2025-02-24

The Tennessee Capitol. . (Photo: John Partipilo)

This database was first published on July 24, 2023. It has since been updated multiple times. The last update came on Feb. 24, 2025.

Since 2010, 199 groups have spent more than $1 million in Tennessee politics.

An analysis of the spending of Tennessee’s exclusive seven-figure club shows the money serves as a benchmark of the power of private groups to influence public policy.

The expenditures are legally allowed under the state’s campaign laws. While no set amount of money guarantees access and influence, expenditures of more than $1 million show a consistent effort over time by private groups to maximize their lobbying efforts.

David Miller, a politics professor formerly at East Tennessee State University, said organizations looking to influence often pay a minimum to maintain relationships.

“If you’ve established a presence, you’re able to get more out of lobbying,” Miller said.

Editor’s note: The Lookout’s $1 million club provides a 15-year lookback. The current database reflects campaign contributions and independent expenditures from Jan. 16, 2010 to Jan. 15, 2025, and lobbying reports from Jan. 1, 2010, to June 30, 2024.

For future reference, when new lobbying records are filed in March, the 15-year period will only cover Jan, 1, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2024. [/sidebar]

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