Investigating Power
“They have gone out of their way to set up a web of dark money groups to obscure where the money is coming from and evade reporting requirements,” said Arn Pearson, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which filed complaints with authorities in Arizona and Montana against the network’s campaign apparatus.
“You take this grenade and you pull the pin, you’ve got a live piece of ammo in your hands,” former Republican senator Rick Santorum, a two-time GOP presidential candidate explained in audio of his remarks obtained by the left-leaning watchdog group the Center for Media and Democracy, Insider‘s Grace Panetta and Brent D. Griffiths report. “34 states […]
Campaign Finance, Democracy, Economy, Elections, Extremism
Last year, Arkansas became the first state to ban gender-affirming medical care for trans youth. Despite a sustained and targeted campaign to get the Waltons to speak out against the bill as it made its way through the state legislature, the family was quiet until after Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed the bill (his veto […]
At a December 2021 closed-door workshop at ALEC’s winter policy summit, Natelson told lawmakers the movement was “on the cusp of a supermajority” in audio obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, a left-leaning watchdog, and shared with Insider. … Meckler’s groups, Convention of States Action and Citizens for Self Governance, have received millions […]
“You take this grenade and you pull the pin, you’ve got a live piece of ammo in your hands,” Santorum explained in audio captured by the Center for Media and Democracy. “34 states — if every Republican legislator votes for this, we have a constitutional convention.”
A new report by the Center for Media and Democracy first shared with Insider finds that Republicans would control at least 27 and up to 31 out of 50 delegations to a convention, based on delegate selection processes in applications passed thus far.
The crusade’s origin was carefully coordinated, rather than springing from the grassroots. The Council for National Policy (CNP), a secretive organization formed in 1981 to promote Christian fundamental ideas, with funding from fossil fuel interests, first discussed the importance of physicians as figureheads of political messaging soon after the pandemic started. A leaked recording from […]
Jon Entine is closely tied in with the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), a corporate front group that received funding from Monsanto and other corporations but did not disclose it. In 2011, ACSH published Entine’s book “Scared to Death,” which defends atrazine, a pesticide manufactured by Syngenta. Reporting by Tom Philpott in Mother Jones and the Center for Media […]
Villanueva even has ties to the shadowy Council for National Policy, a dark money group where powerful Republican leaders, conservative donors, and members of the radical right convene to devise political strategies and projects. The Center for Media and Democracy, a national watchdog group that investigates corruption and corporate front groups, has been looking into the Council for National Policy […]
Democracy, Education, Extremism, Trump
The conservative nonprofit organization laid out its plans in a 2021 document meant for investors, as reported last year by the Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive organization. In the introduction to the investor prospectus, Kirk wrote that in the coming year Turning Point USA would “mount the country’s most forceful and systematic effort […]