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14 Jun, 12 tweets, 9 min read
1. 25 major companies that sponsor Pride parades, and turn their Twitter avatars into rainbows and present themselves as champions of LGBTQ rights have donated more than $10 million to anti-gay politicians in the last two years

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2. We looked at the contributions from corporations that tout their commitment to LGBTQ rights to:

Members of Congress with a ZERO rating from @HRC

Sponsors of anti-trans legislation in AR, TN, NC, TX, and FL

The results were not pretty

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3. @CVSHealth, for example, has turned their Twitter avatar into a rainbow heart

It also donated 4K to two sponsors of a TX bill to change the state’s child abuse law to make it a crime for parents to allow kids to receive gender-affirming medical care

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4. In North Carolina, @CVSHealth donated 1K to Senator Ralph Hise (R), the primary sponsor of S514, which The Advocate called "the most repressive anti-transgender health care bill in the nation."

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5. Since 2019, CVS Health has also donated $259,000 to 54 members of Congress who received a zero rating in @HRC's Congressional scorecard for the 116th Congress

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6. What's remarkable is that @CVSHealth also has a 100% score in @HRC's Corporate Equality Index

The index excludes political donations, enabling corporations to craft a pro-LGBTQ image while bankrolling politicians that are undermining LGBTQ rights

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8. @Comcast has been adorning its social media posts with rainbows. One tweet says: "Pride is the love we share. And with Xfinity, it’s Pride all year."

But @Comcast has donated more than $1.1 million to anti-LGBTQ politicians since 2019

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9. @Comcast donated more than $30,000 to the sponsors of anti-trans legislation introduced this year in Florida & Texas

That includes 2K to @VoteRandyFine who has targeted the trans community for years and is quoted in the media misgendering trans people

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10. "We can #TURNUPTHELOVE for LGBTQ+ youth together," @ATT tweeted on June 5.

@ATT has donated more than $63,000 to state lawmakers sponsoring legislation this year that targets LGBTQ youth

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@ATT 11. @ATT also donated about $1.1 million since 2019 to members of Congress that received a ZERO on @HRC's Congressional scorecard.

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@ATT @HRC 12. Here is the full list of 25 companies that drape themselves and rainbows but have donated money to anti-LGBTQ members of Congress and, in many cases, state legislators pushing anti-trans legislation

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14 Jun
1. This will be a thread of corporate PRIDE tweets + the FACTS of each company's political giving to anti-gay politicians over the last two years.

Follow along if interested.

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2. Since 2019, @Comcast has donated $1,095,000 to anti-LGBTQ members of Congress that received a ZERO rating from @HRC

It also donated $35,300 to state legislators who sponsored anti-trans bills this year.

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3. Since 2019, @ATT has donated $1,079,500 to anti-LGBTQ members of Congress that received a ZERO rating from @HRC

@ATT also donated $59,450 to state legislators who sponsored anti-trans bills this year.

popular.info/p/corporate-pr…

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12 Jun
1. This is a cute tweet but if @BurgerKing really supports LGBTQ+ rights maybe the @BurgerKing Franchisee PAC should stop donating so much money to so many members of Congress THAT RECEIVED A ZERO RATING FROM @HRC.

Receipts to follow.
@BurgerKing @HRC 2. In the 2020 cycle, the @BurgerKing Franchisee PAC donated $113,500 to 31 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WITH A ZERO RATING ON @HRC's CONGRESSIONAL SCORECARD.

Now @BurgerKing is trying to position itself as a champion of LGBTQ rights.
3. I'm going to be publishing an in-depth piece on corporate hypocrisy during pride month in my newsletter very soon.

It looks at corporate PAC donations to anti-LGBTQ politicians at the federal & state level

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11 Jun
1. On May 31, Texas Republicans were fully prepared to pass a sweeping voter suppression bill

But the bill failed because House Democrats walked out, denying the GOP a quorum

The GOP will take the bill up again in a special session

But something EXTRAORDINARY is happening
2. Republicans are COMPLETELY UNPREPARED to defend the substance of the bill and are abandoning major provisions.

First, the GOP claimed the ban on Sunday voting before 1PM was a typo

This isn't credible because they defended the ban as the bill was debated

But its OUT
3. Now Republicans are scrapping a provision to allow Texas judges to void an election based on thin evidence of fraud (w/o regard to whether the alleged fraud changed the result)

A chief House sponsor of the bill now calls the provision "horrendous"!

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9 Jun
1. The DOJ has decided to continue defending Trump in a case involving his attacks on a woman, E Jean Carroll, who he allegedly raped.

There are lots of VERY SERIOUS LAWYERS defending the DOJ.

But that doesn't mean the DOJ is right.

Let's dive in.

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2. First, let's talk about what Trump said. After E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room in the mid-90s, Trump claimed he never met Carroll, accused her of lying to sell books, & suggested she was conspiring w/the Democratic Party

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3. Later Trump said he would never have raped Carroll because she is not his "type."

The DOJ's main argument is that when Trump said all this HE WAS ACTING WITHIN THE SCOPE OF HIS OFFICE AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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8 Jun
1. Manchin's rationale for opposing the For The People Act, which would thwart state efforts to undermine voting rights, underscores the central role of the @USChamber.

Manchin is essentially quoting the Chamber's talking points

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@USChamber 2. April talking points from the @USChamber: "Changes enacted on a partisan basis are the most likely to...undermine public confidence"

Manchin this week: "[P]artisan policymaking won’t instill confidence in our democracy — it will destroy it"

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3. The @USChamber is engaged in an aggressive lobbying campaign against federal action to protect voting rights that is financed by the same corporations who say they support voting rights.

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7 Jun
1. A constellation of obscure websites — populated with content stolen from outlets like @Politico, @Axios, & @BuzzFeedNews — has played a significant role in the fundraising success of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley, and other Republicans

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@politico @axios @BuzzFeedNews 2. Popular.info identified more than 2 dozen websites controlled by @ASGroupInc.

The company is run by @bgrudnick, a GOP operative.

According to internal marketing materials, Rudnick has used the sites to amass 10 million email address

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3. Rudnick rents these emails to political campaigns charging tens of thousands of dollars for each email.

Internal materials obtained by popular.info, show that Rudnick charged 20K to send one email to 1M subscribers to Christian News

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