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The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose stated mission is "to reveal abuses of power, corruption and dereliction of duty by powerful public and private institutions in order to cause them to operate with honesty, integrity, accountability and to put the public interest first." With over 50 staff members, CPI is one of the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative centers in America.
With control of Congress in the balance, TV audiences across the country have been bombarded with political ads from campaigns, political committees, super PACs, parties and nonprofit groups. Fueled in large part by loosened restrictions on political money, an ongoing Center for Public Integrity analysis of estimates from ad tracking service Kantar Media/CMAG provide a picture of who is on the air, and where. To oust Democrats from the majority, Republicans need to pick up at least six seats.