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@JuddLegum
Jan 26, 2022 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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The Mcminn County School board in Tennessee just voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust

The vote was 10-0

tnholler.com/2022/01/mcminn…
Sadly, this is not an isolated incident. There is a wave of book banning across the nation.

More here: popular.info/p/the-war-on-l…
If you are interested in tracking these issues, I’ve been doing a lot of reporting on book banning and other attacks on free expression in my newsletter

Sign up here —> popular.info/subscribe
Tomorrow is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
This is a useful database of book banning and other censorship efforts across the country

ncac.org/youth-censorsh…
MORE: A Mississippi mayor is "withholding $110,000 of funding from the Madison County Library System" until its libraries purge books w/LGBTQ themes

The mayor calls the books, including an essay collection by Elton John & others, "homosexual materials"

mississippifreepress.org/20068/ridgelan…
UPDATE: @Twitter informs me that it received a complaint about the tweet at the beginning of this thread, pursuant to German Law, but it will not be removed
@Twitter UPDATE: The author of Maus, Art Spiegelman, reacts to his book being banned

"It has the breath of autocracy and fascism"

cnn.com/videos/us/2022…
@Twitter UPDATE: @realchrisrufo, who has fueled anti-CRT hysteria, defends the decision to ban Maus from 8th grade classrooms.

Oddly says that banning the book from the classroom is not a ban.

Book banning is part of a larger strategy.
@Twitter @realchrisrufo Let's go over the facts. Rufo claims the book has been "swapped out." It has not. The board does not have a replacement and the result, according to the board, is the entire module on the Holocaust will be skipped because Maus is the "anchor text."

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Jun 13
1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.”

A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group.

Following along for receipts.

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2. Progressive Champions just booked 400K in ads attacking Cait Conley, a Dem candidate in New York’s 17th District competing in the June 23 primary. The ads claim that Conley is “not progressive" and tie her to Trump.

popular.info/p/progressive-…
3. Popular Information previously reported that Real Change PAC, another sham progressive PAC, sent a message to supporters from a email address — the domain of a GOP comms shop and top vendor of the CLF, the House Republican super PAC.cavalryllc.com
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Jun 4
1. Don't believe the headlines.

Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund is not "dead."

The Trump administration wants to the public to believe it's dead.

But their ACTIONS tell a very different story.
2. Here is the key point: The settlement that created the $1.766 billion "anti-weaponization" fund is a WRITTEN DOCUMENT.

It says explicitly that it "may be modified only with the written agreement of the Parties.”

popular.info/p/no-trumps-17…
3. In his testimony before a House committee, however, AG Blanche said that there would be NO WRITTEN MODIFICATIONS to the settlement and that he would continue to defend it in court.
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Jun 3
1. For the SECOND TIME IN SIX MONTHS, a foreign real estate development led by Jared Kushner has been derailed by a GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION SCANDAL and mass protests.

Follow along for all the gory details.

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2. Jared and Ivanka are developing a $4 billion resort centered around an uninhabited island in Albania.

The massive project, which includes 10,000 hotel rooms, is located in one of Europe’s most environmentally sensitive areas.

popular.info/p/kushners-alb…
3. In 2024, the Albanian government changed the law to allow the area, which was previously part of a protected national park, to be developed.

Then shortly after Trump's election, Kushner, through an LLC, was granted “strategic investor“ status, clearing the way for permits.
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Jun 2
1. Real Change PAC, a super PAC that purports to be "committed to progressive values," has spent millions of dollars in Democratic primaries.

It is actually a Republican front closely tied to House Republican leadership.

An email completely exposed the dirty tricks operation. Image
2. When you registered for the Real Change PAC email list on its website, the confirmation email came from a Cavalry LLC domain. Cavalry one of DC’s premier GOP communications shops.

popular.info/p/update-email…
3. According to FEC filings analyzed by Popular Information, the CLF -- the primary super PAC of the House Republicans -- spent over $10 million in the 2024 cycle buying digital ads through Cavalry.
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May 29
1. A Popular Information reveals that two more "progressive" super PACs are linked to House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson.

They've worked pretty hard to cover their tracks, but not quite hard enough.

Follow along for details.
2. One PAC that has raised suspicions is California Blue

It is registered at 3571 Far West Boulevard, a mailbox store in Austin, Texas

Of the 5.5K committees registered this cycle, only one other used this address

popular.info/p/two-progress…
3. The treasurer of that PAC, Stop Talarico, is Lisa Lisker, Mike Johnson's campaign treasurer.

Lisker also is the treasurer of Grow the Majority, one of the joint fundraising committees for the CFL, the House Republican super PAC. Image
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May 27
1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists."

It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries.

But it's funders and motivations have been secret.

Until now.

It's a GOP dirty tricks operation.

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2. Popular Information found that Lead Left is linked to Caleb Crosby, a Republican operative. Crosby is the treasurer of the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), the primary super PAC of the House GOP.

popular.info/p/a-gop-dirty-…
3. Lead Left's spending has been unusual.

In Texas, Lead Left spent 900K supporting Maureen Galindo in the Democratic House primary. Galindo, a sex therapist, pledged to turn an ICE detention facility a “prison for American Zionists.”

Her campaign less than 11K. (She lost last night.)
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