Thread by @duboo

NEW: RAGA reported $6.1 million in contributions in the second half of 2021, according to a year-end report examined by the Center for Media and Democracy. That’s down from the $6.6 million RAGA raised in the second half of 2019. (CORRECTION)
exposedbycmd.org/2022/02/01/rag…

RAGA’s challenges to raise funds in the second half of 2021 followed a very difficult first half where the organization had to rely on $2.5 million from a dark money group run by Trump’s go-to man for packing the federal courts with right-wing judges.
exposedbycmd.org/2021/08/03/gro…

The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, topped all contributors to RAGA during the second half of 2021, donating $550,285 (or 9%) of its funding haul. The tobacco company Reynolds American contributed the second largest at $253K.

RAGA’s latest filing also detailed $3 Million in campaign contributions doled out to GOP AG campaigns in the second half of 2021:
$2.6 million to Jason Miyares (VA)
$250K to Ken Paxton (TX)
$100K to Ashley Moody (FL)
$10K to Lawrence Wasden (ID)

You can find a full searchable table of all of RAGA’s second half contributors at the end of our article.
exposedbycmd.org/2022/02/01/rag…

And RAGA’s 2021 end of year filing was uploaded to Document Cloud.
documentcloud.org/documents/2119…