Insurrection Exposed

New CMD Report: Hundreds of Public and GOP Officials in Eight Battleground States Stand Ready to Subvert the 2024 Election Results

By ExposedByCMD Editors | September 13th, 2024 at 7:45 AM (CDT)

The Center for Media and Democracy released a major new report today highlighting the elevated threat to the peaceful transition of power following this November’s national elections — more than 200 public and Republican Party officials in swing states who either deny the 2020 election results, have refused to certify previous elections, or spread disinformation about widespread voter fraud.

Election Deniers Dominate Wisconsin’s GOP Congressional Primary

By Colleen Scerpella | August 12th, 2024 at 9:04 AM (CDT)

When Wisconsin voters go to the polls tomorrow, Republican candidates who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results or spread claims of widespread voter fraud will be on the ballot in six of eight GOP primary contests for the House, along with the race to take on two-term Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin.

MAGA Makes Its Move to Capture House Speaker Position

By Juliana Broad and Arn Pearson | October 12th, 2023 at 12:11 PM (CDT)

A key Trump ally who worked to overturn the 2020 election results and has deep ties to a dark-money MAGA group is still in the running for the next speaker of the House, a position third in line for the presidency.

CMD Launches Insurrection Exposed Website

By ExposedByCMD Editors | December 6th, 2022 at 10:20 AM (CST)

New resource provides more than 250 profiles of the politicians, leaders, and dark money groups that orchestrated the Jan. 6 insurrection and are laying the groundwork to subvert future elections.

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MAGA Group Grooms Members of Congress and Their Staff for America First Movement

By David Armiak | September 13th, 2022 at 10:34 AM (CDT)

Backed by Trump money and led by insurrectionists under investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election, the Conservative Partnership Institute has held at least four training sessions for dozens of GOP members of Congress and their staffers so far this year, sometimes paying for their travel and accommodations,

The Thomas More Society and Other Outside Groups’ Influence on Partisan Wisconsin Election Investigation

By ExposedByCMD Editors | September 6th, 2022 at 4:33 PM (CDT)

Michael Gableman’s newly announced employment with the Thomas More Society raises serious questions about the extent of the group’s involvement in the inquiry into Wisconsin’s 2020 election results.

How Mark Meadows’ nonprofit benefited from Trump’s ‘Big Ripoff’

By Sue Sturgis | June 27th, 2022 at 3:00 PM (CDT)

The former North Carolina congressman and White House chief of staff, under investigation for registering to vote in three states, Meadows promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election that President Trump used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters.

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Right-Wing Families Bankroll Most Extreme GOP Candidates Nationwide

By Alex Kotch | May 24th, 2022 at 8:28 AM (CDT)

Billionaires such as the Uihleins, the Hillmans, and the Toppers are funding the most far-right politicians in the country, including several affiliated with white nationalists.

RAGA Revenues Continue Their Post-Insurrection Slide

By David Armiak | February 1st, 2022 at 12:51 PM (CST)

Contributions to RAGA are down compared to the same period in 2019, with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce coming in as its biggest donor.

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Insurrectionist Mark Meadows Flies to Atlanta to Help Launch Far-Right State Caucuses

By David Armiak | December 14th, 2021 at 3:23 PM (CST)

Faced with criminal contempt charges in House Jan. 6 probe, former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows headlines an event tonight to kick off right-wing “anti-establishment” legislative caucuses.