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Robbie Jaeger 🔎 Profile picture
@RobletoFire
Sep 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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NEW: I dug into the top 50 political vendors (per @OpenSecretsDC) and found that over a dozen of them—including 2 of the top 5—cashed in on PPP loans.

Most of these companies have had tens of millions of dollars come their way this cycle.

My latest:
medium.com/@RobletoFire/t…
Buying Time LLC, ranked #2 of top political vendors, has had $222M pass through them this cycle ($430M+ since 2016), with $186M coming from Tom Steyer's Presidential committee.

They received a PPP loan worth up to $350,000
Rising Tide Interactive was another beneficiary of Steyer's run, with $77M of their $86M this cycle came from services related to his digital campaign.

Rising Tide was approved for a PPP loan for up to $1M, as was DSPolitical—another firm founded by RTI partner Eli Kaplan.
Aisle 518 Strategies was paid $39M+ this cycle for media services, with $25M coming from Bernie Sanders' campaign alone.

They received a PPP loan for up to $350,000.
Middle Seat Consulting, a digital media firm co-founded by Justice Democrats founder Zack Exely (though he has since left), made $16M this cycle consulting for progressive Democrats like Jamaal Bowman, Charles Booker, and AOC.

They got a PPP loan for up to $1M.
Blue Wave Political Partners, founded by Bernie Sanders' campaign treasurer Lora Haggard, also got a PPP loan for up to $350,000.

Blue Wave has been directly paid $3M this cycle, Haggard and her partner, Jay Petterson, are listed as treasurer on over 100 committees per the FEC.
Communications Corp of America has been paid $49M+ this cycle for direct-mail advertising—with $27M coming from the Republican National Committee, and $16M coming from President Trump's reelection campaign.

CCA still got the largest loan on the list, valued at up to $2M.
There are several more where that came from, detailed here, in my latest report.

The question remains: Is the PPP helping the small, at risk businesses it was intended to? Or is it being taken advantage of by corporate and political insiders?
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Robbie Jaeger 🔎 Profile picture
Oct 27, 2021
I broke Soros' donation to Sunrise Movement’s PAC over a year ago—and even though the @FreeBeacon is acting like they just found it, their article is massively incomplete.

It doesn't even mention that Soros @OpenSociety gave $500K to @sunrisemvmt in 2019, and $1M in 2020.
Though this article was written a week or so before I broke news of Soros' $1M 2020 donation, if you want the most in-depth look at Sunrise Movement's billionaire donors, you can read my report here:
jaeger.substack.com/p/billionaire-…
Receipts on the $1M:
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Oct 8, 2021
Last August, Colonial Pipeline spilled into the Oehler Nature Preserve outside or Huntersville, NC.

Colonial revised their volume estimates 3 times (growing exponentially every time) until deciding their last estimate of 1.2M gals was too low.
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After being pressed for an updated volume estimate by state and local officials, Colonial Pipeline said they couldn't give one.

And even if they did, the estimate would be "open to interpretation". Meaning, they have no idea how much spilled.
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While researching this historic spill, I discovered that Colonial Pipeline had at most inspected only 45% of their 5,500mi line in 2019—and had been cited by federal regulators for numerous procedural violations.

That trend would continue in 2020.
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Aug 3, 2021
Very early numbers starting to come in from #OH11 via NYT Image
1% reporting, Brown off to a nearly 4000 vote lead on Turner. #OH11 Image
5.7% precincts reporting, Shontel Brown up roughly 3,700 votes on Nina Turner in #OH11 via WaPo. Image
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Jul 17, 2021
Key points not in the story that are worth mentioning:

1. Donor data for DMFI PAC beyond 01/25/21 (GA Special Election) isnt yet public.

2. As of 01/25, DMFI had $101K cash on hand—yet they've spent $660K against Turner, so there is new money (which Schusterman could still be).
There's a reason why I haven't reported this yet, even though these numbers have been available since February.

Nearly all the money Schusterman gave DMFI was spent BEFORE their recent blitz against Turner—so we can't say for sure she's the donor behind it, though she may be.
Assuming DMFI is a semi-annual filer with the FEC, we'll know for sure who funded their recent blitz on Nina Turner on 07/30.
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Feb 23, 2021
Lately I've been trying to just ignore all of the so called "in-fighting", keep my head in the research, and focus on what's important: the work.

But my patience has worn out.

If you come at me or my colleagues with bad faith attacks or outright lies, I will expose you.
It's so easy to sit around and creep @nikoCSFB or @Fiorella_im's timeline and disparage their work.

It's much more difficult to do some work of your own.

"Those who can't talk about those who can".
Challenge my reporting if you want but I don't report without receipts. I pride myself on it.

I don't need an entire team of researchers to write a "breaking" story about something that's been known for years, and I don't take credit for scoops that I didn't report first.

IYKYK
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Feb 23, 2021
The mainstream media is going to keep Trump in the spotlight as long as they can—because he made them stars pulling record ratings.

You wont see the same veracity of reporting on Biden, because criticism of Democratic politicians in those circles will get you blacklisted.
Eventually, they'll have no choice but to put Biden in the spotlight. When that happens, much like with Obama, it will be milquetoast puff pieces full of softball questions.

Then their ratings will bottom out. Why? Because it's boring.

Then they'll invent their next boogeyman.
Don't forget the media's hubris helped push Trump to the forefront of politics, though their coverage was overwhelmingly negative—"Any press is good press".

Plus, he was good for business!

They'll repeat the cycle when they soon become attention starved from his absence.
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