…Church. CNP’s founders include multiple members of the conspiracist John Birch Society and Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and ALEC. As of 2018, the most recent tax year…
Right-Wing Out-of-State Funders Bankroll Anti-Union Campaigns in Ohio
…has “never abandoned [the John Birch Society’s] core anti-union agenda and the lessons of his father’s commitment to right-to-work,” Lisa Graves reported for In These Times. Over the years, Koch…
ALEC Leading Right-Wing Campaign to Reopen the Economy Despite COVID-19
…to abide by in order to reopen US society and preserve the American way of life”: Immediately reopen the economy, while implementing the best workplace practices to protect the health…
Funding Hate: How Online Merchants and Payment Processors Aid White Nationalists
…AFP advocates the deportation of all non-white U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants. The group believes that “whites deserve a nation of their own,” and “non-whites endanger white culture and society,”…
Groups Aligned with Right-Wing Megadonors Are Promoting Coronavirus Protests
…Federalist Society and its co-chairman, Leonard Leo, gave COSF $950,000 in 2016. DonorsTrust, Donors Capital Fund, the Charles Koch Foundation, and the Mercer Family Foundation have given the Federalist Society…
Conservative Foundations Finance Push to Kill the CFPB
…posts about toppling regulatory agencies. All 16 foundations that finance the anti-CFPB amicus brief filers also fund the Federalist Society. They have combined to give $33.3 million to the society…
Private Prison Giant GEO Group Gives to Super PAC Backing Susan Collins
…campaign finance disclosures. 1820 PAC also got $150,000 from the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers LLC, a Hawaii-based entity that appears to be a shell company created to…
Right-Wing Megadonors Are Financing Media Operations to Promote Their Ideologies
For decades, Charles Koch has been committed to radically changing American society into a libertarian paradise, free from taxes and regulations, in which the wealthiest oligarchs, like himself, can destroy…
Koch-Favored DonorsTrust Keeps Funding Anti-Muslim and Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups
“We share your commitment to protecting our Nation’s constitutional liberties and strengthening civil society,” reads the website of a prominent right-wing foundation. What it doesn’t add is that by donating…
DonorsTrust Pumped $142 Million into Right-Wing Causes in 2018
…at the Federalist Society, which received close to $6 million in DonorsTrust cash in 2018, or a quarter of its revenue for the year. JCN and the Federalist Society share…