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Feb 2 • 12 tweets • 10 min read
1. On Monday, a 10,055 page PDF was quietly filed with the IRS

It revealed that some of the nation's most prominent corporations have sent large donations to the GOP group behind state abortion bans and voter suppression

Follow along if interested

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2. The document was filed by the @RSLC, a GOP group that delivers "wins for Republican state legislators" by "targeting national resources to support state races"

It takes credit for the fact that the GOP controls "61 of 99 state legislative chambers"

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3. This year, with the @RSLC's help, GOP legislators have passed 108 abortion restrictions (including Texas' ban) and 34 laws restricting voting

The @RSLC is backed by big donations from corporations that claim to support voting rights & women's equality

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@RSLC 4. @Google donated $155,000 to the @RSLC in 2021. This is money from its corporate treasury.

Google presents itself as a champion of women "striving for a future where there is equity across the globe."

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5. @Comcast donated 135K to the @RSLC in 2021.

The company, which owns @NBCUniversal, suggested just a couple years ago that it would pull out of Georgia if the state's 6-week abortion ban was upheld

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6. Today, @comcast is financially supporting efforts to keep Republican legislators pushing abortion bans in power

The company did not respond to a request for comment

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7. @CVS donated $50,000 to the @RSLC in 2021.

CVS claims its mission is to "support the unique health needs of women at every age."

CVS did not respond to a request for comment.

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8. @Citibank donated $75,000 to the @RSLC in 2021.

Citi claims it's working to advance women's rights "enabling progress…to ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities"

The company did not respond to a request for comment

popular.info/p/corporations…
9. @ATT donated $150,000 to the @RSLC in 2021.

CEO John Stankey said one of the company's "core values" was "gender equity and the empowerment of women."

The company sent this statement: "We provide the same amount annually to the @RSLC and the @DLCC"

popular.info/p/corporations…
10. This new research is the product of our newsletter, Popular Information. If you value this work, please sign up for the newsletter.

We publish on Twitter but it's the newsletter, not Twitter, that enables us to do the work.

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11. Many other corporations have donated large sums to the @RSLC in 2021, backing the radical agenda that Republicans are pursuing at the state level.

A few more

@AnheuserBusch (65K)
@HomeDepot (50K)
@WeAreFarmers (100K)
@Intuit (100K)
@Walmart (70K)

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12. Nearly all of these companies either declined to comment or did not respond to a request for comment.

They believe they can say one thing, spend their money on something in conflict with it, and then not explain the contradiction

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Feb 2
1. Zucker is successfully spinning his firing/resignation as a simple matter of failing to disclose a consensual relationship with a subordinate

But that's not the whole story
2. The woman who Zucker was in a relationship with was Allison Gollust, CNN's Chief Marketing Officer.

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Feb 2
If people want to run for office, I absolutely encourage them to do so

As someone who has done it, however, I can tell you it is not a "crazy impossible thing" but it is a very challenging thing in every possible way

I learned so much doing it

Including that its not for me
As a practical matter, I learned more personally knocking on 10,000 doors than I could have in a lifetime of observing politics from afar.

It's given me a deep and abiding sympathy for all candidates.

You are really putting yourself out there and it's tough
Very few people who write and report about political issues have ever run for office themselves but it helps a lot
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Feb 1
1. This will be a thread of companies that sent out earnest Tweets celebrating Black History Month but donated a bunch of money last year to Republican senators who filibustered federal voting rights protections

Follow along if interested
2. @Microsoft donated 135K to senators that filibustered federal voting rights protections
3. @verizon donated 126K to senators that filibustered federal voting rights protections

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Feb 1
1. A new proposal to stop Trump from stealing the 2024 election could backfire

It's a classic case of fighting the last war.

Follow along if interested.

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2. 147 Republicans voted to overturn the last election by objecting to the certification a few states

So the proposal floated by Dems is to make that more difficult and require a 2/3 vote in each chamber to reject certification rather than a majority

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3. The problem with this idea is that it misunderstands the more acute threat for 2024: A Trump-sympathetic Governor sending a phony slate of pro-Trump electors to Congress.

This is a risk, for example, if Perdue becomes the next Governor of Georgia.

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Feb 1
1. Today is a major FEC filing day. Pretty much every PAC and campaign committee has to show their cards.

This thread will document the companies that have abandoned the commitments they made after January 6, 2021.

Follow along if interested.
2. After January 6, @GoldmanSachs CEO @DavidSolomon condemned the attack and Goldman Sachs announced they were suspending all political donations.

On 12/20/21, Goldman donated 2.5K to @RepBlaine Luetkemeyer, who voted to overturn the election
@GoldmanSachs @DavidSolomon @RepBlaine 3. Notably, Luetkemeyer reportedly threatened to put corporations that cut off his funding on an "enemies list."

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Jan 31
1. An acclaimed MLK-themed novel, Dear Martin by @getnicced, was removed from a 10th-grade English class in North Carolina

The decision was made in a matter of hours after one parent complaint

Things get more disturbing from there

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@getnicced 2. The superintendent who made the decision, Dr. Bill Nolte, told popular.info that he did not read the book — or even obtain a copy — prior to making the decision

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3. The parent who complained objected to the book's "explicit language," including "GD" and "the s-word."

He suggested that providing Dear Martin to 10th graders violated the "age of consent" because "they are still adolescents."

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