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@stevanzetti
Sep 13, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
SCOOP: a group of "hackers on steroids" gained access to a large dataset belonging to Epik, the web host of the Texas GOP website, Texas Right to Life website, and anti-abortion snitch website. Image
I do not have access to the data cache but a source was able to verify the veracity of this press release.
Looking forward to checking out the public release! Image
This has blown up so I'm obliged to ask you to consider chipping in to support my independent journalism. You can support my muckraking for as little as $2.50 a month.

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UPDATE: I've been doxxed and defamed by a customer of Epik. Rob Monster just publicly acknowledged the website.

UPDATE: the cache has been released to epikfail.win
CLARIFICATION: the Prolifewhistleblower site that Epik has provided services for is OWNED by Texas Right to Life, but the Texas Right to Life website itself uses a different provider. I regret the error in the original tweet. The rest of the reporting still stands.

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Apr 22
NEW: Early voting for some school board elections in TX starts today, including the Grapevine Colleyville school district where sitting board president Shannon Braun recently made a false police report claiming people who shared some of her old QAnon style posts faked them.

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Shannon Braun, a right wing school board trustee in the Grapevine Colleyville district who was elected with the help of big money PACs and GOP consultants, publicly claimed on April 6 that someone manufactured fake tweets and posted them on Facebook. But the tweets are real.

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Here's one of the tweets Grapevine Colleyville school board president Shannon Braun posted in response to a QAnon account on July 17, 2020. I was able to find it on Web Archive. It's a real post. Per the police report above, Braun admitted it's real.

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Apr 20
I'm at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas where Gov. Greg Abbott is about to give the keynote address to the annual Young Conservatives of Texas convention. I guess they let anyone in here! Image
Despite the press advisory Gov. Greg Abbott sent out about his speech I'm the only member of the press here at the Young Conservatives of Texas convention where he's about to speak. The lighting on stage is terrible. Image
Abbott starts his speech by thanking Steve Munisteri, founder of YCT. "When he founded it...he got paid exactly zero...Now he gets to continue advancing those conservative values...inside the office of Governor of the great state of Texas and now he gets a big fat paycheck." Image
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Apr 10
Hotel magnate & publisher of right wing website Dallas Express, Monty Bennett, is under fire from an activist investor that holds shares in one of Bennett's companies, Blackwells Capital. They allege financial misconduct, claim Bennett used the Dallas Express to defame them.
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"Braemar’s external manager, Ashford Hospitality Advisors LLC...collected more than $60 million in advisory and service fees in 2023...a 575% increase over the last decade. During that same period, Braemar’s share price has declined almost 90%."
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According to Blackwells Capital, they sent a letter to Bennett's company Braemar demanding an investigation into potential breaches of fiduciary duty on Oct. 21, 2023, and Bennett's website the Dallas Express contacted them days before Braemar acknowledged the letter.
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Apr 6
SCOOPLET: Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, who not long ago switched to the Republican party, has hired a staff writer at the Dallas Express, a right wing website funded by GOP megadonor Monty Bennett, who took a leadership course with the Christian Nationalist group Wall Builders.

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In March, Mayor Eric Johnson hired former Dallas Express writer Noah DeGarmo as a comms and policy specialist. While working at the Dallas Express, DeGarmo wrote a handful of favorable articles about Johnson and his controversial switch to the Republican party.
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Before DeGarmo worked at the Dallas Express and for Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, he took a training course with Wall Builders, a Christian nationalist group led by Tim Barton who has been labeled an anti-LGBTQ extremist by the SPLC, and worked for Glenn Beck's Mercury One group.
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Mar 15
Texan politicians who made celebratory posts on X about PornHub pulling out of Texas in protest of the age verification law had porn spam bots in their comments. X currently does not have any age verification requirement for users.

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"Pornhub has now disabled its website in Texas,” Paxton wrote victoriously. “Sites like Pornhub are on the run because Texas has a law that aims to prevent them from showing harmful, obscene material to children."

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Texas State Rep. Nate Schatzline (R), who has said he believes all pornography should be banned, also celebrated Pornhub leaving Texas and received identically ironic responses. Image
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A Gannett spokesperson confirmed to me the company has a contract to produce “advertorial content” sourced from Advantage Informatics, a blandly named company founded by Brian Timpone, a conservative businessman and former TV reporter based out of Chicago.

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