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Feb 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
SCOOP: Insurrectionist attorney Cleta Mitchell brought together “leaders” from WI, TX, PA, NC, AZ, & FL on Jan 4-5 for a CPI voter suppression session featuring Tea Party Patriots Jenny Beth Martin, Ken Cuccinelli, & MAGA voter suppression center head Ken Blackwell.
Attendees received a copy of this “Citizens Guide to Building an Election Integrity Infrastructure, November 2021.” The Center for Media and Democracy obtained this document which was passed out at a secret elections meeting at ALEC’s December meeting.
documentcloud.org/documents/2119…
CMD first wrote about that secret elections meeting as part of its coverage of the ALEC meeting, which also included a half day “academy” on rewriting the U.S. Constitution.
exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/01/fai…
If you haven’t heard of the MAGA voter suppression center, it’s housed at the Trump admin spinoff America First Policy Institute. Here’s CMD’s piece on the launch of it. Gidley, the center’s director, spoke at the ALEC meeting as well.
exposedbycmd.org/2021/09/14/tru…

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Feb 1
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.
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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.
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Jan 19
SCOOP: CMD has obtained information on two academies the American Legislative Exchange Council held in 2021 that it chose not to promote or list on its website as it does for its Annual Meeting or States and Nation Policy Summit.
#ALECExposed
Sept 15-17, ALEC held a Life Sciences Academy “exclusive” for ALEC lawmakers. CMD obtained the invite & agenda. Heritage & Pacific Research Institute staff presented on drug pricing. Gene therapy, mental health, & patient access were also on the agenda.
documentcloud.org/documents/2118…
Oct 13-15, ALEC held an “Innovating for the Future Academy” in Silicon Valley. You can only imagine how “state policy-makers and industry experts” worked together to find “solutions to public policy issues.” CMD obtained the invite.
documentcloud.org/documents/2118…
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Jan 7
SCOOP: The Republican gerrymandering operation Fair Lines America brought in $2.7 million to its 501c3 and 501c4 in 2020, IRS filings obtained and published by the Center for Media and Democracy detail. FLA’s leader Adam Kincaid is the GOP’s "chief authority on redistricting."
The 2020 IRS filing for Fair Lines America shows another $200K went to Magellan Strategies.
documentcloud.org/documents/2117…
The #HofellerFiles revealed that Magellan has been contracting to work on gerrymandering maps for Republicans since 2010. I wrote about this in the piece below.
exposedbycmd.org/2021/09/28/gop…
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Dec 14, 2021
SCOOPLET: CMD has obtained and published the latest IRS filing for the Council for National Policy, a secretive Christian Right group with deep ties to Trump and the insurrection. In 2020, CNP brought in $3 mil in revenue.
documentcloud.org/documents/2115…
In this piece from October 2020, we outline Council for National Policy’s deep ties to Trump.
exposedbycmd.org/2020/10/27/sec…
And in this widely circulated piece from January 8, we detail the extensive ties between the Council for National Policy and the violent insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.
exposedbycmd.org/2021/01/08/chr…
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Dec 13, 2021
BREAKING: ALEC held another two-day voter suppression “academy” with the dark money group Honest Elections Project proceeding its December 1-3 meeting, CMD has learned through obtaining an invitation.
#ALECExposed
exposedbycmd.org/featured-docum…
The invitation states, "Now, on November 29 and 30, we’ll work with you on how to put these proven methods into practice, from direct litigation strategies, to workshops with leading election experts, to messaging techniques.”
documentcloud.org/documents/2115…
CMD was first to report on a secret elections meeting at ALEC’s Dec 1-3 States and Nation Policy Summit, which only a handful of lawmakers attended. Now we know why.
#ALECExposed
exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/01/fai…
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Nov 29, 2021
NEW: The Charles Koch Foundation & Charles Koch Institute paid out $149.2 million in grants in 2020 to universities, right-wing policy, litigation, & advocacy groups, and other causes, the latest IRS filings obtained by CMD detail.
exposedbycmd.org/2021/11/29/koc…
The Charles Koch Foundation & Charles Koch Institute gave $89.7 million to academic centers, colleges, & universities in the US and abroad in 2020, CMD calculated. The total is less than the over $100 million Koch doled out for higher ed in 2019.
exposedbycmd.org/2020/11/23/koc…
The 2020 IRS filings from the Charles Koch Foundation & Charles Koch Institute detail another $11.9 million in contributions to 22 nonprofits that filed supporting briefs in the Koch's Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta case.
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