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Shop without feeding the oligarchy — the concentration of wealth, power & influence in the few. Top retailers scored 0–100 on disclosed US political spending; vote with your dollar. Non-partisan, public records. Independent & human-run. noligarchy.com

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 17/09/2026

Michaels' score didn't drift — it dropped when Apollo Global Management's buyout closed in 2021-Q2, and the score switched to reflecting Apollo's own disclosed spending: $2.82M in lobbying, $870K in exec donations that quarter alone. Sat in the 30s since. Michaels' history

Line chart: Michaels's NOligarchy score over time — 2020-Q4: 67 -> 2021-Q1: 71 -> 2021-Q2: 38 -> 2021-Q3: 38 -> 2021-Q4: 41 -> 2022-Q1: 43 -> 2022-Q2: 44 -> 2022-Q3: 41 -> 2022-Q4: 36 -> 2023-Q1: 35 -> 2023-Q2: 35 -> 2023-Q3: 33 -> 2023-Q4: 34 -> 2024-Q1: 32 -> 2024-Q2: 32 -> 2024-Q3: 32 -> 2024-Q4: 34 -> 2025-Q1: 34 -> 2025-Q2: 34 -> 2025-Q3: 33 -> 2025-Q4: 33 -> 2026-Q1: 30 -> 2026-Q2: 30.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 16/09/2026

Every dollar in a NOligarchy score is scoped to a rolling 24-month window — 8 quarters of federal filings. As new ones land, older ones roll off. It's a live read on political spending, not a one-time snapshot from whenever we first checked. How it works

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 15/09/2026

Furniture and home decor scores run wide: Overstock and RH lead near 100, while mainstream names like Wayfair (65.87) and IKEA (53.12) land solidly in the middle. Same disclosure data behind every score. Full furniture leaderboard

Furniture & Home Decor — Retailer Scores Ranked | NOligarchy

Every tracked Furniture & Home Decor retailer, ranked by NOligarchy Score — lobbying, PAC donations, CEO pay ratio, and stock buybacks. Beyond Inc leads at 100/100. 7 companies scored.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 14/09/2026

Mint Mobile held near 90 for three straight years, then dropped to 35.01 in a single quarter (2024-Q2) and never recovered — it's been in the low-to-mid 30s ever since, sitting at 33.48 now. Mint Mobile's history

Line chart: Mint Mobile's NOligarchy score over time, holding near 91 from 2020-Q4 through early 2024, then dropping sharply to the low-to-mid 30s, sitting at 34 today.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 13/09/2026

CEO pay ratio on NOligarchy: for public companies, it's the real number straight from the company's own proxy-statement disclosure. Private companies don't file a proxy, so we estimate using the median pay ratio among comparable public companies in the same sector, scaled to revenue.

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 12/09/2026

Office supplies has one of the widest gaps I track: Staples leads at 74.24, Office Depot/OfficeMax close behind at 73.04 — then a steep drop to Target (27.76), Amazon (14.86), and Walmart last at 6.5. Full office-supplies leaderboard

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 12/09/2026

Worth noting: Amazon already carries $2.53 billion in disclosed federal fines, before this suit is even resolved. If it lands the same way, it's one more entry in a long, public pattern — not an outlier. Amazon's record

Amazon — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 11/09/2026

Tractor Supply's disclosed federal lobbying went from $0 in 2020 to $1.82M/year now, PAC giving grew ~40x, and a $1.35M California privacy violation hit in Q3 2025. Score's fallen every year since — 63.92 to 14.46. Score history

Line chart: Tractor Supply's NOligarchy score over time — 2020-Q4: 64 -> 2021-Q1: 63 -> 2021-Q2: 63 -> 2021-Q3: 63 -> 2021-Q4: 61 -> 2022-Q1: 62 -> 2022-Q2: 44 -> 2022-Q3: 41 -> 2022-Q4: 36 -> 2023-Q1: 32 -> 2023-Q2: 30 -> 2023-Q3: 28 -> 2023-Q4: 26 -> 2024-Q1: 27 -> 2024-Q2: 26 -> 2024-Q3: 26 -> 2024-Q4: 27 -> 2025-Q1: 21 -> 2025-Q2: 21 -> 2025-Q3: 15 -> 2025-Q4: 15 -> 2026-Q1: 15 -> 2026-Q2: 14.

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 11/09/2026

Amazon already has $2.53B in publicly disclosed federal fines on record. If this suit lands the same way, it's not an outlier - it's one more entry in a pattern we've been tracking for years. Amazon's record

Amazon — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 11/09/2026

Violations like this are exactly why we built a violations column into the score. TikTok's own accountability rating has swung hard over time — 86.46 in 2021, down to 45.79 in 2024, sitting at 63.54 this quarter. TikTok's record

TikTok — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 10/09/2026

Market share on NOligarchy isn't a guess — it's benchmarked against the 2022 Economic Census, the newest NAICS baseline the government publishes. That's what the Market Scale sub-metric runs on: real sector-level retail sales data, not estimates. How it works

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 10/09/2026

Corporate PAC money is public too — that's why I built this. I turn FEC filings, lobbying disclosures, stock buybacks, CEO pay, and fines into a plain score for every retailer, so you can see where your money's actually going before you spend it. NOligarchy

NOligarchy – Shop without feeding the Oligarchy

A non-partisan score for every major retailer — lobbying spend, PAC and executive donations, CEO pay ratio, and stock buybacks — so your money doesn

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 09/09/2026

Auto parts scores span RockAuto's 93.32 down to AutoZone's 55.15, with NAPA (83.46), Advance Auto Parts (72.76), and O'Reilly (55.7) in between - five retailers, same disclosure data behind every score. Full auto parts leaderboard

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 08/09/2026

Skechers' score jumped from 49.39 to 65.87 between 2025-Q4 and 2026-Q1 — a $1.25M SEC investor-protection violation from March 2024 rolled off our 24-month scoring window right on schedule. Score's held steady near 66 since. Skechers' score history

Line chart: Skechers's NOligarchy score over time, from 70 in 2020-Q4 up to an 83 peak in 2021-Q4, sliding down through 2024-2025 to a low of 49, recovering to 66 today.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 08/09/2026

Skechers' score jumped from 49.39 to 65.87 in one quarter — here's why: a $1.25M SEC investor-protection violation from March 2024 sat inside our 24-month scoring window for the full two years, then rolled off right on schedule at the start of 2026. The score has held steady near 66 since.

Line chart: Skechers's NOligarchy score over time, from 70 in 2020-Q4 up to an 83 peak in 2021-Q4, sliding down through 2024-2025 to a low of 49, recovering to 66 today.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 08/09/2026

Not every company we track gets its own page. Berkshire Hathaway itself doesn't — its lobbying, PAC, and donation spending shows up on a brand you'd recognize instead, like Nebraska Furniture Mart. The disclosures don't disappear, they get attributed to the name-brand subsidiary.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 06/09/2026

Department stores skew high on our index — all seven land above 55. Nordstrom tops it at 88.02, Neiman Marcus and Macy's close behind at 79.9 and 79.76, Kohl's trails the group at 55.95. Same disclosure data behind every score. Department stores leaderboard

Department Stores — Retailer Scores Ranked | NOligarchy

Every tracked Department Stores retailer, ranked by NOligarchy Score — lobbying, PAC donations, CEO pay ratio, and stock buybacks. Nordstrom Inc leads at 88.0/100. 7 companies scored.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 06/09/2026

Worth noting: the marketplace here, Amazon, carries $2.53B in disclosed regulatory fines — the highest of any retailer we track — and scores 14.86/100 on our index. Amazon's record

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 06/09/2026

That instinct checks out in our data too — Kroger, Harris Teeter's parent, scores 23.55/100. Costco's at 68.82, more than 40 points higher. Kroger's record

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 05/09/2026

Big Lots took a $7M wage-and-hour violation in 2021. Our scoring window is a rolling 24 months, so it weighed the score down until mid-2023 — then it jumped 54→68 in one quarter as the violation rolled off, and kept climbing as stock buybacks dropped near zero. Now 87.08. Big Lots' history

Line chart: Big Lots Inc.'s NOligarchy score over time — 2020-Q4: 68 -> 2021-Q1: 69 -> 2021-Q2: 69 -> 2021-Q3: 62 -> 2021-Q4: 62 -> 2022-Q1: 57 -> 2022-Q2: 57 -> 2022-Q3: 57 -> 2022-Q4: 57 -> 2023-Q1: 54 -> 2023-Q2: 54 -> 2023-Q3: 68 -> 2023-Q4: 69 -> 2024-Q1: 81 -> 2024-Q2: 81 -> 2024-Q3: 81 -> 2024-Q4: 81 -> 2025-Q1: 80 -> 2025-Q2: 80 -> 2025-Q3: 85 -> 2025-Q4: 87 -> 2026-Q1: 87 -> 2026-Q2: 87.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

Consumer electronics retail spans a wide range: GameStop tops it at 95.96, Abt Electronics and Newegg close behind in the low 90s - then a steep drop to Best Buy at 40.21 and Amazon dead last at 14.86. Twelve retailers, same disclosure data. Electronics leaderboard

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

Great campaign from a company that earns it — Better World Books tops our book-retailer rankings at 95.08/100. Their record

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

Shipped this week: category pages to browse companies by market, a Better Alternatives section on every retailer page, and score history charts showing how a score moved over time. See what's new

NOligarchy – Shop without feeding the Oligarchy

A non-partisan score for every major retailer — lobbying spend, PAC and executive donations, CEO pay ratio, and stock buybacks — so your money doesn

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

Albertsons' score fell three quarters straight - 34.8, 29.81, 25.01. Fines have been consistent for six years, but this quarter's $773.7M settlement dwarfs anything before it. Buybacks, paused most of 2025, are back up too. Six years back: 70.02. Albertsons' history

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

We updated our Playing by the Rules Pillar: each company's enforcement record now stands entirely on its own merits, not shaped by how the rest of the index performed that quarter. A clean record scores like a clean record. eBay: 22→42. Sony: 67→83. GameStop: 80→96. What changed and why

Score Update — August 29, 2026 | NOligarchy

What changed in the August 2026 NOligarchy score refresh — data corrections, methodology refinements, and newly scored companies.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

New: a Bluesky starter pack of the journalists and orgs we lean on for lobbying, PAC, and dark-money reporting — plus a live feed tracking that same beat. Follow once, get it all. bsky.app/starter-pack/noligarchy.com/3muntida3xl2w

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

Compliant is right there in the numbers — Apple's disclosed $20.29M in lobbying and $175M in fines land it at 13.27/100 on our index, near the bottom of the 162 companies we track. Apple's record

Apple — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

The six retailers named here span nearly our full score range: Walmart lowest at 6.5, Amazon 14.86, Albertsons 24.87, Ahold Delhaize (Food Lion/Giant/Stop & Shop) 65.65, Aldi 70.1, Costco highest at 68.82. Full grocery leaderboard

Grocery & Supermarkets — Retailer Scores Ranked | NOligarchy

Every tracked Grocery & Supermarkets retailer, ranked by NOligarchy Score — lobbying, PAC donations, CEO pay ratio, and stock buybacks. Sprouts Farmers Market Inc leads at 75.3/100. 15 companies scored.

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

Kroger scores 23.55/100 on our index - $1.61B in disclosed fines, $4.32M in federal lobbying. A Giant Eagle acquisition adds more of the grocery aisle to a company with that record. Sprouts and Trader Joe's both score 75+ in the same category. Kroger's record

Kroger — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

Best Buy scores 40.04/100 on our index - middling among consumer electronics retailers. GameStop (95.96), Abt Electronics (95.13), and Micro Center (86.38) all score far higher on the same disclosure data. Best Buy's score

Best Buy — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 04/09/2026

Recalls like this move through Amazon's marketplace constantly — separate from this one, Amazon's own federal disclosures show $2.53B in fines, the highest I track, and a 14.86/100 score. Amazon's record

Amazon — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 02/09/2026

We pull the same data — CEO pay ratio (794x), buybacks ($13.907B), and more — into Target's 27.92/100 on our index. The whole point is helping you find better alternatives for your dollar. Target's record

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 02/09/2026

Compliant might undersell it — Apple's own federal filings show $20.29M in lobbying and $175M in fines, and it scores 13.27/100 on our index, near the very bottom of the 162 companies I track. Apple's record

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 01/09/2026

This kind of spending is designed to stay invisible. Federal lobbying isn't - the LDA requires it filed publicly, which is the only reason I can show Amazon spent $37.7M, AT&T $26.3M, Verizon $26.1M. Not the full picture, but it's a start. Amazon's record

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 01/09/2026

Microsoft scores 18.74/100 - lobbying's low ($410K) but exec campaign donations are the highest I track, $2.64M. Apple scores 13.27, with $20.29M in lobbying and $175M in fines. Microsoft's score

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 20/08/2026

Amazon scores 14.14/100 — $37.7M in disclosed federal lobbying and $2.54B in regulatory fines, both the highest we track. Moving away from Whole Foods? Higher-scoring grocery options: Trader Joe's (65.21), Costco (63.9), Sprouts (59.86). Amazon's score

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 18/08/2026

What the buyback ratio tracks: share repurchases as a fraction of revenue. Unlike dividends, buybacks mechanically lift EPS with no operational improvement — which is why they were flagged as market manipulation until a 1982 SEC rule carved a safe harbor. Feeds into Wealth Extraction. How it works

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 17/08/2026

Three sub-scores, each tracking a different way power gets misused: Political Access is how much influence a company buys. Wealth Extraction is how much it siphons from workers and shareholders. Playing by the Rules is whether it follows the law or just pays the fines. How it works

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 16/08/2026

Three figures roll into the political money piece of every score: the company's own FEC PAC, affiliated Super PAC spending, and executive personal donations. Different legal vehicles, different disclosure regimes — all from federal filings. Not one bucket. How the score works

NOligarchy – Shop without feeding the Oligarchy

A non-partisan score for every major retailer — lobbying spend, PAC and executive donations, CEO pay ratio, and stock buybacks — so your money doesn

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 14/08/2026

Vote with your dollar: CVS Health scores 14.15/100 — $21.2M in disclosed federal lobbying. Pharmacy run? Food Lion / Giant scores 65.96, Costco scores 63.9, Hy-Vee scores 60.87. CVS Health's score

CVS Health — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 14/08/2026

Amazon's disclosed federal lobbying over the last 24 months: $37.7M — the highest in our retail database. Score: 14.14/100. Public LD-2 filings. Amazon's score

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 13/08/2026

Vote with your dollar: Amazon scores 14.14/100 — $37.7M in federal lobbying, $2.54B in regulatory fines. Shopping electronics? Newegg scores 95.38, B&H Photo scores 86.24. Amazon's score

Amazon — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 13/08/2026

96.65/100 — Torrid. $0 in federal lobbying, $0 in PAC spending, $0 in regulatory fines, CEO pay ratio 107:1. Not a hit list — I run the same model on every company. Torrid's score

Torrid — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 13/08/2026

My consumer-facing tool runs on the same LD-2 filings: Amazon $37.7M in lobbying, CVS $21.2M, Apple $20.3M. Lobbying's one piece of my score; Wealth Extraction (buybacks, CEO pay) and Playing by the Rules (fines) count too. Amazon: 14.14/100, Apple: 12.6. noligarchy.com

NOligarchy – Shop without feeding the Oligarchy

A non-partisan score for every major retailer — lobbying spend, PAC and executive donations, CEO pay ratio, and stock buybacks — so your money doesn

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 13/08/2026

Vote with your dollar: Apple scores 12.6/100 — $20.3M in lobbying, $177.2M in fines, CEO pay ratio 533:1. Headphones? Bose scores 90.81. Phone or watch? Samsung scores 62.37. Apple's score

Apple — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 12/08/2026

Not everything on the index scores low. Urban Outfitters: 93.26/100 — $0 in federal lobbying, $0 in PAC spending, $0 in regulatory fines, CEO pay ratio 61:1. We pull the disclosures and run the same model on every company on the index — the data speaks for itself. Urban Outfitters's score

Urban Outfitters — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 11/08/2026

I just shipped better alternatives: every retailer page on NOligarchy now lists higher-scoring options in the same category. Walmart scores 4.18/100 — $17.9M in lobbying, CEO pay 958:1. Kitchenware instead? WebstaurantStore scores 94.55, Sur La Table 86.42. Walmart's score

Walmart — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 11/08/2026

Whole Foods is Amazon — same parent company. Part of what those prices fund: $37.7M in federal lobbying and $1.5M in PAC spending over the last two years, all from public filings. Amazon scores 14.14/100 on my index. Grocery alternatives: Ahold Delhaize 65.96, Costco 63.06. Amazon's score

Amazon — Political Donations, Lobbying & CEO Pay Score | NOligarchy

NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 10/08/2026

The point isn't naming villains — it's making the switch easy: every retailer page lists higher-scoring alternatives in its category, noligarchy.com/shop ranks who sells a product by score, and the extension brings the scores along while you shop. Shop without feeding the oligarchy.

Shop | NOligarchy

Search any product and see which retailers carry it — ranked by their NOligarchy Score.

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NOligarchy @noligarchy.com · 10/08/2026

Known limits, stated upfront: private companies disclose less, employer-string matching is imperfect, trade-association money is opaque, and state/local spending is out of scope. Full methodology and every source, here.

Scoring Methodology | NOligarchy

How the NOligarchy Score is calculated — three behavior-based pillars: Political Access (45%), Wealth Extraction (35%), and Playing by the Rules (20%), with published weights and full data source links.

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