…The next three largest media recipients of DonorsTrust are American Independent Media ($1.3 million), Metric Media Foundation ($1.3 million), and Franklin News Foundation ($1.1 million). John Tilman, a right-wing Illinois…
Revealed: Council for National Policy 40th Anniversary Funders
…Norman, founder, The Richard Norman Company Jack Park, Jack Park Law Ralph Rebandt, senior pastor, Oakland Hills Community Church John Slavic, founder and president Slavic401K John Stemberger, president and general…
ALEC Leaders Boast About Anti-Abortion, Anti-Trans Bills
…or roughly six weeks after a woman’s last menstrual cycle. The term is “medically inaccurate,” however, because at that stage, an embryo does not have a developed heart, and the…
GOP Megadonor Art Pope Plays Leading Role in GOP Gerrymandering Operation
…Action as a new 501(c)(4), but its activities to date are unknown. All three organizations were created by John Ryder, a Memphis attorney who chaired the Republican National Committee’s (RNC)…
Koch and Ryan Back Heavily Subsidized Startup Company
…private investments. In 2019, SHINE received a $15 million grant for the development of medical isotopes from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Building a new facility with the grant,…
Companies That Publicly Opposed Voter Suppression Continue to Fund Voter Suppression Group
…John Merrill, who promoted the “Big Lie” of widespread voter fraud and urged members of Congress to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, was co-chair of the group and led…
House GOP Launches “Faith in Elections Project”
…visited with election officials in three counties alongside New York Republican Reps. Andrew Garbarino, Claudia Tenney, and John Katko. The program appears to be intended to generate opposition to the…
ALEC Politicians Belong to Neo-Confederate Organization
…of only three votes against removing the Confederate flag from state House grounds. Former North Carolina senator Louis Pate, who was an ALEC member as of 2017 but does not…
Republicans Trumpify Electoral System to Steal Future Elections
…tend to support Democrats. The GOP isn’t just trying to cancel votes it doesn’t like. It’s also seeking to interfere with the certification process after votes are cast. And because…
REVEALED: The Federalist Foundation’s Tax Records
…addition to shared funders, RealClear and The Federalist have overlapping executives and board members. A 2017 SEC filing revealed that John McIntyre, co-founder and CEO of RealClearPolitics, was a director…