Google's post-election FEC report is out. On December 16, Google gave Darrell Issa $5,000 to help retire his primary campaign debt. On January 6, Issa voted to overturn the lawful results of the Presidential election. 
Google made a similar $5,000 donation to Wyoming senator Cynthia Loomis on December 16. On January 6, Loomis was one of eight senators who voted to reject the Electoral College vote.
And on December 4, 2020, Google gave $5,000 to Jim Risch's leadership PAC, called Save America. What did Save America spend it on? Making sure that Republicans would win the Georgia Senate races. Googlers, this is who you work for.
Meanwhile at Facebook, they were so impressed with Dan Sullivan's victory in the Alaska Senate race that they rushed to give him a $2,500 for his primary in 2026.
On December 17, Facebook made a $2,500 donation to Mitch McConnell's leadership PAC, the Bluegrass Committee.
Facebook also rushed to give newly re-elected Maine senator Susan Collins money for her 2026 primary race. They donated $2,500 on December 17.
Also on December 17, Facebook donated $2500 to re-elect Republican senator Todd Young in 2022. (Keep these very early donations in mind when you hear how Facebook has "paused" its political giving until the ruckus dies down.)
That same day, Facebook gave $2500 to keep Marco Rubio in the Senate in 2022
Facebook also made a $2,500 donation on December 17 to Lindsey Graham's re-election campaign... in 2026.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's filing is so comprehensive I'm going to leave it to tomorrow, and link it here.
Let's talk Microsoft! Last month I reported on remarkably candid remarks to employees by company President Brad Smith, which he gave knowing what donations Microsoft's PAC had made in December that weren't yet public at that point. Let's review them now!
https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1352487435242926080
On December 17, Microsoft donated $2500 to Kansas senator Roger Marshall's leadership PAC, the Defend Our Conservative Senate PAC. Three weeks later, Marshall was one of eight senators who voted to overturn the lawful Electoral College results.
Microsoft gave $2500 on December 17 to Josh Hawley's Fighting for Missouri PAC. (These leadership PACs are basically a slush fund associated with individual legislators, the donations are then distributed to other campaigns of that person's choice).
Microsoft made a $1000 donation on December 7 to freshly re-elected congressman Jason Smith of Missouri, for his 2022 primary. Smith then voted on January 6 to throw out the results of the Electoral College vote.
Microsoft donated $1000 to the Promoting our Republican Team PAC on December 17. Recipients of that PAC's largesse include Donald Trump, Kelly Loeffler, Jim Jordan, and Mitch McConnell.
On December 17, Microsoft gave $2500 to Cynthia Lummis's leadership PAC (Steer PAC). Lummis was one of eight senators to vote on January 6 to reject the Electoral College vote.
Uniquely among the big tech companies, Microsoft extends its legal corruption down to the state level. It gave the Kentucky Republican House caucus a $1250 donation on December 17
Microsoft donated $1000 to the campaign of West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrissey on December 17, eight days after Morrissey filed suit in the Supreme Court to overturn the results of the presidential election. wboy.com/news/politics/…
So when Brad Smith spoke in front of employees on January 21, he did so in the full knowledge that Microsoft had made yet-to-be-disclosed political donations to key figures working to overturn the results of the recent Presidential election.
His defense boils down to two points—everyone has to do this to get their calls answered (this is not true; Apple and IBM do fine without a political action committee). And 'we have to do this to help protect our employees against policies that the people we donate to enact.'
Political giving by the tech monopolies is immoral, indefensible, and in the case of the 147 Republicans who voted to subvert our recent election; un-American. It's up to employees at those companies now to push for their bosses to follow Apple and IBM's lead and abolish the PACs
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