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30 Dec 20, 4 tweets, 2 min read
At least five Republicans received approval for PPP loans from individuals who had given them campaign contributions or banks whose PACs gave.

Rep. Brett Guthrie's $4.37 million PPP loan was approved by Franklin Bank, whose director had donated to him.

readsludge.com/2020/12/24/mem…
Rep. Kevin Hern received a $1.07 million loan for his food & beverage pass-through corporation. He has received $5400 in contributions since 2017 from the president and CEO at American Bank & Trust, which approved the loan. The corporation manages 15 McDonald's in the Tulsa area.
Hern was one of ten Republicans who received loans for their private companies but voted against the May TRUTH Act, which would have required loan recipients to be publicly identified.

See all members of Congress whose affiliated companies got PPP loans:

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While dozens of members of Congress received $27 million in PPP loans, many Black-owned and Latino-owned businesses struggled to access the funding program. @mainstreetweets said the disparities show the impact of relying on banks to distribute the funds.

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26 Dec 20
Our two-person newsroom worked hard in 2020 to publish hundreds of impactful stories on money in politics. Here's some of the work we're proud of.

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@PeteButtigieg Alexandra Walsh and Beth Wilkinson, D.C. attorneys who represented Brett Kavanaugh in his Supreme Court confirmation hearings amidst accusations of sexual assault.

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NEW: GOP Sen. Mike Braun is co-founding the bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus, but he's accepted $119,000 in donations from PACs of energy & natural resources companies including Alliance Coal, Koch Industries & ExxonMobil since 2017. readsludge.com/2019/10/25/cli…
Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, the other co-founder, has received $63,000 in campaign & leadership PAC donations from energy & natural resources companies, including ExxonMobil this year. readsludge.com/2019/10/25/cli…
The new Senate Climate Solutions Caucus will not take up sweeping frameworks like the Green New Deal.

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25 Sep 19
🚨SCOOP🚨 Facebook is making millions of dollars in ad revenue from @splcenter-designated hate groups.

Our investigation finds that at least 38 hate groups & hate leaders have paid Facebook $1.6 million since May 2018. readsludge.com/2019/09/25/fac…
@splcenter Despite Facebook's anti-hate speech policy, numerous hate groups remain on the platform.

The reason appears to revolve around its contrasting definitions of hate speech and hate groups it uses for enforcement. readsludge.com/2019/09/25/fac…
@splcenter The top-spending hate groups since May 2018 include anti-immigrant FAIR, anti-LGBTQ Alliance Defending Freedom & Family Research Council, and the anti-Muslim Clarion Project. readsludge.com/2019/09/25/fac…
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JUST IN: As the Senate fails to act on catastrophic climate change, nearly one-third of its members are profiting from investments in oil, gas, and coal companies that are fueling the crisis. #CoveringClimateNow readsludge.com/2019/09/24/fac…
Twenty-nine senators and their spouses own between $3.5 million and $13.9 million worth of stock in companies that extract, transport, or burn fossil fuels, or provide services to fossil fuel companies, according to a Sludge analysis of personal financial filings as of Aug. 16.
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5 Jul 19
MEGATHREAD:

As the Trump admin detains immigrants and children in squalid conditions, hundreds of companies and nonprofits are making money by contracting with ICE, CPB, and HHS for detention, transportation, surveillance, and other services.

Sludge has the receipts.
The government’s deportation force, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), contracts with hundreds of for-profit and nonprofit corporations. Sludge mapped out the contractors so you can see which ones are near you. readsludge.com/2018/07/06/who…
Private prison company and big political donor GEO Group is the largest ICE contractor, with more than $470 million worth of ongoing contracts as of July 5, 2018.
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