DOJ filings show Egyptian intelligence retained Cassidy at $50K/month and Glover Park at $3M/year — with the UAE paying for the Glover Park contract. NSPM-7 and five state-level Baby FARA laws raise the stakes.
FARA filings show Israel's Foreign Ministry and Tourism Ministry hiring a Florida ad shop, while Mercury Public Affairs takes the Misgav Institute's Washington play.
China has paid U.S. FARA-registered firms more than $418M since 2016 — more than any other country. Tencent's federal lobbying jumped from ~$200K/quarter to $1.5M in Q3 2025. The February 2025 Bondi memo curtailing FARA enforcement has reshaped the foreign-influence landscape.
OpenAI and Anthropic super PACs spent $23M+ on one congressional primary. Lobbying got the headlines. The PR shops running the messaging did not.
Washington stopped reading press releases. The public affairs function — connecting companies with policymakers, regulators, and the political process — is operating in conditions that have shifted meaningfully since 2023. The bipartisan reset, the new playbook, and the firms adjusting.
Tencent's federal lobbying jumped from ~$200K/quarter to $1.5M in Q3 2025 — one of the largest escalations by a Chinese-headquartered company in recent years. The trigger: the January 2025 DoD designation. The roster: former Trump-aligned operatives.
The DOJ has not announced a new FARA case in 20 months — the longest case-free window in modern foreign-influence enforcement. The February 2025 Bondi memo helps explain why, and what it means for the U.S. foreign-principal market.
Federal lobbying hit $4.4B in 2024. EPR's directory of the leading federal lobbying firms — Brownstein, Akin Gump, BGR, Holland & Knight, Ballard, Squire Patton Boggs, Cornerstone, Van Scoyoc — plus AI lobbying, FARA, and how modern firms actually operate.
EPR's Public Affairs and Political Communications pillar — the discipline, the seven sub-specialties, the press pool fragmentation, coalition operating principles, and how organizations win policy Citation Share in the AI Communications era.
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