Investigating Power
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
The Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive nonprofit watchdog group, published a report this month claiming that more than 230 officials in eight states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — have denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election or have spread claims of widespread voter fraud.
“He was greatly responsible for moving our federal court systems to the right,” said David Armiak, the research director for Center for Media and Democracy, a watchdog group tracking money in politics, of Leo. CRC Advisors’ work with AEI, Armiak said, seemed “to delegitimize a group that’s seeking to inform judges or the judicial system […]
Democracy, Elections, Extremism
According to a recent study by the Center for Media and Democracy, there are 102 election deniers on election boards in eight battleground states. These election deniers, the study found, have majority power in 15 counties in battleground states, including seven in the critical state of Pennsylvania.
ALEC, Climate, Democracy, Environment
The new investigation by the Guardian builds on previous reporting by Documented, the Intercept, HuffPo, the Center for Media and Democracy and the International Center for Non-Profit Law that points to corporate lobbyists and state lawmakers working in cahoots to make organising against fossil fuel projects that are driving the climate emergency increasingly legally risky.
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
The Center for Media and Democracy released a report on September 13 identifying 239 Republican election administrators, candidates and party leaders across eight critical swing states who denied the 2020 election results, refused to certify previous elections, or spread misleading claims about widespread voter fraud. The number of “election deniers” overseeing the 2024 elections is […]
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
But what about the fake electors who submitted falsified documents on Trump’s behalf to Congress for the 2020 election? It turns out they, and others like them, are just as great a threat to democracy as the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. An effort called Insurrection Exposed by the Center for Media and Democracy sheds light on […]
Last week, however, in a stunning addition to Cunningham’s work, the Center for Media and Democracy’s Colleen Scerpella released a mass of current information about the think tanks and philanthropies pressuring Republican state legislatures to pass laws banning diversity, equity,and inclusion in higher education. Scerpella assures readers that the same groups have been promoting legislation to curtail […]
A new Center for Media and Democracy report found that American Majority, a tax-exempt group, trains Republican candidates and party organizations on how to win elections. But the organization’s tax-exempt status prohibits it from such activities. CMD filed complaints with the Internal Revenue Service and the Minnesota attorney general’s office, requesting a thorough investigation into […]
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
Over 100 election officials from eight pivotal states in the U.S. presidential race have demonstrated partisan election denial in recent years. This has led to concerns that they could attempt to manipulate the November result in favor of Republican candidate Donald Trump, as per a report published on Friday. The comprehensive 88-page report, compiled by […]
Democracy, Elections, Extremism, Trump
In a recently released report, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) identified 239 election deniers in eight swing states (Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin). 50 are Republicans running for the House or Senate, 6 are Republicans running for state executive office, 102 are sitting state and county election officials, […]