Investigating Power
Bradley Files, Democracy, Elections
According to an article published in the New Yorker by journalist Jane Mayer in 2021, the Bradley Foundation has been instrumental in funding voter suppression efforts and 2020 election conspiracy theories. Documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy show that Kelly received payments in 2022 from the Bradley Foundation and affiliated organizations.
Democracy, Education, Extremism, Koch
The Center for Media and Democracy’s research is cited multiple times in this important publication
In August, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reported that Koch-funded organizations spent over $1.1 billion in the 2020 election cycle.
Meckler denies that COSA has ever accepted Koch money, but he is certainly getting money from somewhere. The three nonprofits associated with the Convention of States movement, all headed by Meckler, had a combined revenue of $11.9 million in 2020. Investigative reporting by the Center for Media and Democracy found that one of them, once […]
Part of the foundation’s stated mission is to train young reporters, but its staff also generates content, which the Daily Caller then gets to post to its site for free. And while this content is nominally available to any publication, The Washington Post reported that it’s rarely used by anyone beyond the Daily Caller. A […]
Despite the contentious environment in Berkeley Springs, donation data provided by Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) to Hatewatch should give those in town opposed to VDARE’s ideology reason for cautious optimism. The hate group surged in prominence during the Trump era, due to the Republican Party’s embrace of hardline anti-immigrant views. Trump’s authority also […]
Democracy, Economy, Extremism, Koch, Media
Bhattacharya is joined in his lawsuit against the Biden administration by Martin Kulldorff, another co-author of the declaration, and a few other plaintiffs. As the writer Walker Bragman has pointed out, they’re represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a right-wing litigation factory that has received funding from the Koch network. (The Alliance is also […]
CPI’s revenue exploded last year to $45 million, up from about $7 million in 2020, according to its latest tax filing, obtained by Accountable.US and the Center for Media and Democracy. Its $1.3 million donation to AFL was the largest of eight grants that it made last year. Tax records also show AFL last year […]
“Requiring a voter to show a photo ID will simultaneously confirm their identify and preclude a bad actor from stealing their vote,” testified Beau Euton. She’s with Opportunities Solutions Project, a group allied with the Florida-based conservative organization Foundation for Government Accountability, according to the liberal Center for Media and Democracy.
Dewhirst was a litigator with the libertarian Freedom Foundation that the Center for Media and Democracy states is “well-known for advancing aggressive techniques to dismantle unions.”