Investigating Power
Bradley Files, Democracy, Koch, SPN
The Center for Media and Democracy’s research into the funding of amicus briefs for U.S. Supreme Court cases was cited multiple times in this piece from U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse for The Yale Law Journal.
Bradley Files, Democracy, Extremism
The Bradley Foundation helped finance the supposedly grassroots uprising against COVID-19 restrictions and mask mandates that took place throughout 2020, according to an analysis from the Center for Media and Democracy.
On 6 November, Kirk helped lead a Stop the Steal rally in Phoenix that was one of numerous such events hosted by Trump allies that day protesting Biden’s win and spreading falsehoods about fraud, as the Center for Media and Democracy first reported.
Kerpen “has been affiliated with a number of organizations founded by or with close links to the Kochs, including Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute, and the Club for Growth,” according to SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy.
Climate, Democracy, Economy, Environment
The senator earned $491,949 in dividends last year alone, as journalist Alex Kotch reported this summer.
Climate, Democracy, Environment
As The Guardian reported in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy in July, Manchin himself founded a private coal brokerage in 1998 called “Enersystems.” Though currently run by his son, Manchin still owns as much as a $5 million stake in the company, raking in $500,000 of income from it in 2020 alone. […]
Climate, Democracy, Environment
Financial records detailed by reporter Alex Kotch for the Center for Media and Democracy and published in the Guardian show that Manchin makes roughly half a million dollars a year in dividends from millions of dollars of coal company stock he owns. The stock is held in Enersystems, Inc, a company Manchin started in 1988 […]
An earlier, redacted version of the list was published along with reporting by the Center for Media and Democracy in late 2020. DDOSecret’s publication restored personal information, which allowed further reporting and verification of the list’s contents.
Several CNP members have been linked to a movement that sought to limit coronavirus-mitigation measures. In summer 2020, the Trump campaign and several NPC members, including Jenny Beth Martin, the cofounder and CEO of Tea Party Patriots, coordinated with a new anti-lockdown group called America’s Frontline Doctors, according to a call leaked by the liberal […]
Shortly after the 2020 election, as Trump pushed The Big Lie from the White House, von Spakovsky joined one of Trump’s lawyers, Cleta Mitchell, and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell on a Council for National Policy panel to reportedly plan how Republicans should work to subvert the will of more than 81 million […]