# UPDATE: Campaign Finance Scale Post-Citizens United Following our analysis two days ago on how Citizens United v. FEC fundamentally restructured campaign finance by removing aggregate contribution limits, new Federal Election Commission filings show 2024 dark money spending has already exceeded $500 million—a 40% increase over the same period in 2020. This escalation underscores the practical impact we outlined: without understanding the Supreme Court's 2010 decision's legal architecture, observers often miss why super PACs and "dark money" groups became inevitable structures rather than anomalies. The data reinforces our earlier point that campaign finance scale today operates under entirely different rules than the pre-Citizens United era.