Investigating Power
Jason Heath, RAGA’s director of operations, was next out the door. “I respect your votes but the direction is not one I can honestly stand behind,” he wrote in an April 25 email obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy.
They are based on the deceitful, politically fabricated need to reassure voters that the elections are secure. This the punchline of a lie-fueled campaign, by the self-same proposers of these bills, to cast doubt on fair and secure elections, despite all evidence to the contrary. In other words, they manufactured a problem that doesn’t exist […]
Jason Heath, RAGA’s director of operations, announced his resignation in an April 25 letter obtained and reported by The Center for Media and Democracy on Tuesday.
The Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive watchdog group, reported Tuesday that RAGA’s operations director, Jason Heath, stepped down in the wake of Bisbee’s promotion.
Bradley Files, Democracy, SPN, Wisconsin
Diane Hendricks, described by the Center for Media Democracy as the institute’s largest known donor, donated $4.7 million to the Wisconsin Republican Party between 1998 and 2018 and $5 million to Walker’s PAC when he ran for president.
ALEC, Democracy, Economy, Koch
Led by a prominent right-wing activist ― former Tea Party Patriots founder Mark Meckler, who is also the current acting CEO of Parler, a social media platform popular on the right ― the Convention of States Project has spread the gospel of a convention to an increasingly radical audience. This year, lawmakers proposed 42 Convention […]
ALEC, Democracy, Economy, Koch
This year, lawmakers proposed 42 Convention of States resolutions in at least 24 new states, according to the Center for Media and Democracy, which has long monitored the convention push.”
Looking just at the most recent elections faced by House and Senate members who supported overturning the 2020 election, the Center for Media and Democracy found some mind-boggling statistics. Josh Hawley and Rick Scott are arguably the two most serious contenders for president on the Republican side in 2024. Hawley received $41,169,601 from dark money […]
Stripe and Donorbox have previously faced calls to cut off right-wing groups such as Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate groups, as covered in a report last year by the nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy.
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Environment
On a one-hour call with ALEC members in late February, former Utah state representative Ken Ivory claimed that each directive in the president’s January executive order on climate action unduly entrenched federal power and stripped authority from the states. He surfaced fears that Biden will declare a national “climate emergency” that “unlocks more than 130 […]