Internet tools to shake up a broken political system

Nearly every progressive I know is freaking out about the Supreme Court ruling removing restrictions on corporations spending money on behalf of political candidates.

There are all kinds of reasons the ruling is bad, but the rules of politics are already ridiculous. Now it's worse, but you've still got to play by exploit the rules, because your opponent certainly will.

TPM points to a coming report from CampaignGrid (an online advertising platform for Republican campaigns) on how outside groups can use unlimited amounts of online advertising to drive signups and donations for a candidate.

Using a combination of display and search advertising, FSC Bank could advertise online and link to Congressman Goodfellow's campaign website to drive traffic and volunteers and donations to the website - however FSC Bank could not report back the results of these efforts to the Goodfellow Campaign.