…10. Then, when a donor threatened to withhold a donation to RLDF if it did not encourage people to attend the March to Save America rally on January 6, RLDF…
RAGA Raised $1.6 Million as Republican AGs Challenged Election Results
Despite Pandemic, Union Membership Rose in 22 States, Including Many Right-to-Work States
…official, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, as Secretary of Labor, and issued an executive order to reverse Trump administration policies that made it difficult or impossible for federal workers to form…
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The Real Money Behind the Politicians Who Voted to Overturn the ElectionInsurrection Exposed
…to Cancer Treatment Centers of America founder and chairman Richard Stephenson’s family foundation, donated $3.2 million total to SLC and FreedomWorks for America. The trust’s donation of $550,000 to FreedomWorks…
Among the top funders of outside groups that helped elect the GOP election deniers are (clockwise from top left) Sheldon Adelson, Miriam Adelson, Ken Griffin, Stephen Schwarzman, Joe Ricketts, Richard Uihlein, and Liz Uihlein. (Credit: U.S. Air Force, David Rubenstein/YouTube, World Economic Forum, Cornstalker/Wikimedia, Uline/YouTube)
ALEC’s Numerous Ties to the Capitol Insurrection and “Big Lie”
…that it was a “coalition partner” in the March to Save America and paid for robocalls to urge people to attend the rally and then march on the Capitol. A…
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ALEC Honoree Backed Effort to Overturn Presidential Election, Compared Penn. Gov. to Nazis
The American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2020 “Legislator of the Year,” Pennsylvania state Sen. Cris Dush (R), joined with 94 other state legislators on Jan. 5 to call on Vice President…
Photo credit: Senator Cris Dush's Facebook page.
ALEC Lawmakers Traveled to D.C. For Rally and March That Led to Fatal Insurrection
…be called an election.” “What is at stake this week is our ability, as American citizens, to have a say in the future of America,” Eastman wrote on the day…
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ALEC Working in Partnership with Turning Point USA, Major Player in Capitol Insurrection
The American Legislative Exchange Council entered into a new partnership last month with a radical-right pro-Trump group, Turning Point USA, that played a major role in promoting Trump’s lies about…
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Republican AGs Forever Tied to Violent Pro-Trump Insurrection
…2019 to 2020, including the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers of America ($261,000), the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers ($221,000), and the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America ($136,000). GOP megadonors gave…
Image created from video of January 6, 2021 "March to Save America" rally uploaded to YouTube.
Who Funds The Federalist? Finally, We Know.
…the 2020 federal elections, having doled out over $63 million to super PACs such as the pro-Trump America First Action, Club for Growth Action, the Senate Leadership Fund, and Restoration…
Richard Uihlein Adapted from The New York Times/YouTube.
“Dark Money ATM of the Conservative Movement” Gives $1.5 Million to White Nationalist Hate Group
At a 2017 conference hosted by the white nationalist hate group American Renaissance, Peter Brimelow, spoke about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. “Crime in this country is ethnically variegated,” claimed…
