Reader Q&A: who’s spending big on the midterms? Our reporters take your questions

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Welcome to the conversation

Welcome to our second live Q&A about the upcoming midterm elections. Today, our reporters will be joining us to answer your questions about who is funding the campaigns, where the money is going and how it’s shaping the election outlook ahead of the votes on 3 November.

In the past few months our reporting team has covered in depth:

• How major companies that urged Congress to strengthen the Voting Rights Act continue to contribute to state political groups that are actively working to undermine the legislation.

• The vast extent of spending by crypto money and big tech to shape this year’s races.

• Aipac and its linked Super Pacs’ role in funding Democratic candidates facing opponents from the progressive left.

Joining us on Friday at 11am EDT are political breaking news reporter Joseph Gedeon, tech reporter Dara Kerr and senior politics reporter Chris Stein.

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The US politics team is hosting a series of reader Q&As leading up to the November midterms elections. See our first conversation on the Democrats’ midterms hopes.

The supreme court struck down a lower court ruling that limited spending by political parties in support of their candidates in June. Photograph: James Carbone/Newsday via Getty Images