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1 Dec, 7 tweets, 2 min read
I'm starting a thread of people incorrectly explaining to me what "dark money" means.

The correct answer is: it refers to spending by any organization that doesn't have to disclose its donors.

(Ex: 501(c)(4) nonprofits, 501(c)(5) unions, & some others, but NOT SuperPACs)

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What do you hate most about the Justice Democrats?

What's your favorite fact about how sketchy they are?
Or Bernie.
Here's one of mine for Bernie:

I just learned that THIS 👇 existed tonight

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1 Dec
If you've never heard of the company 'Teletracking", you need to read this thread.

It's the company with America's Covid19 data and they're sharing it with Palantir.
I swear, every time I post this thread, Twitter's algorithm barely shows it to anyone.
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I don't get it!
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9 Nov
AOC Deep Dive part 2

All Members of Congress & congressional candidates file campaign finances w/the FEC. It's publicly available here: fec.gov/data/committee…

AOC's 2020 campaign finances were BONKERS for many reasons.

Now let me tell you about them in excruciating detail 🤓
AOC was the 2020 Dem incumbent in NY-14, which is HEAVILY Democratic. D+29.

She didn't face any real threat to her re-election.

Primaries:
✅ AOC:74%
❌ Caruso-Cabrera: 18%

General:
✅ AOC 68.7%
❌ Cummings 30.5%

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Here is an overview of AOC's re-election campaign-

There's still a month left to report, but according to her campaign's FEC filings through October 14, 2020:

Contributions (money in):
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9 Nov
AOC Deep Dive part 1:

Here are AOC's personal House Financial Disclosure 👇 She has filed 4 total.

Every member of Congress and congressional candidate must file one annually.

They are publicly available here: disclosures-clerk.house.gov/PublicDisclosu… ImageImageImageImage
What do hers tell us?

Well, when AOC initially filed to run for Congress, she filed in NY-15! She amended it 10 days later to run in NY-14.

BUT!

She filed financial disclosures forms in BOTH districts...on 4/30/18!

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There are so many BIG stories going on, it's impossible to keep up. For example, I entirely missed *this* until today: 👇

The Trump administration's efforts to obscure (& who knows what else) America's COVID19 data by diverting it from the CDC to a secretive contractor.
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I only made it 2 weeks back before I ran out of space for more examples.

These are the red flags I found JUST from the last 2 weeks.
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