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Judd Legum

13 Jan, 13 tweets, 12 min read

@Facebook

1. BREAKING

3 major corporations say they'll suspend donations to the Republican Attorneys General Association, which helped drive participation in last Wed's events

@Facebook

@Lyft

@DoorDash

Follow along for more on these 3 plus 60 other corps

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@Facebook

@Facebook @lyft @DoorDash 2. University of Phoenix (@UOPX) is taking things a step further.

The for-profit university, which donated $50,400 to RAGA last year, is demanding its money back

"We have asked RAGA to return our contribution to us as soon as possible."

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@Lyft

3. @Lyft tells popular.info that it "not be renewing our membership in RAGA for 2021"

@Facebook says it was "surprised and appalled" by the RAGA's conduct

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@DoorDash

4. @DoorDash says that "Any individual or organization that encouraged or facilitated this horrific behavior must be held accountable."

All this is a wakeup call for the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has accepted NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS INVOLVEMENT

5. More details coming in this thread. But if you value this kind of work, please subscribe to our newsletter, Popular Information.

It's free to sign up.

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6. The Republican Attorneys General Association, through its policy arm the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF), sent a robo-call urging "patriots" to congregate at the White House and then "march to Congress" to "stop the steal."

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7. RAGA also played a key role in setting the predicate for what devolved into a violent riot. Starting weeks before the election, the organization pushed conspiracy theories suggesting Democrats were conspiring to "steal" the election.

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@Yelp

8. Popular.info heard from several other major RAGA donors.

@Yelp ($15,375) said it was "suspending and reviewing our political contributions in light of last week's events."

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@Microsoft

9. A number of corporate donors expressed concerns about RAGA's activities without explicitly addressing future donations to the group.

@Microsoft
@smiledirectclub
Eli Lilly (@LillyPad)
Johnson & Johnson (@JNJNews)

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@FedEx

9. Other companies responded to Popular Information's inquiry but gave little indication of their future plans.

@FedEx
@Mastercard
@Visa
@Toyota
@Amgen
@WellsFargo
@eBay

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@FedEx

@FedEx @Mastercard @Visa @Toyota @Amgen @WellsFargo @eBay 10. 47 companies, including some of RAGA's largest donors, did not respond to our request for comment

@comcast
@pfizer
@lowes
@homedepot
@AnheuserBusch
@Amazon

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11. We will hopefully hear from more of these companies in the days to come.

If your company missed our email and you have a response, we will update this article: DMs open, email in bio.

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12. If readers hear anything from the companies that didn't respond (or provided a vague answer) please also get in touch!

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We've now heard back from 85.

Some major companies that have remained silent

@Safeway
@Oracle
@Publix
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jlegum@protonmail.com and my DMs are open.

I will protect your identity.

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1. In this thread, I will try to summarize the flood of announcements from corporate America over the last few days.

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Others are just efforts to buy time.

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@Hallmark

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