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Feb 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is the most detailed report of the NRA's finances ever made publicly available. It shows the NRA is half the size it was just three years ago.
Revenue is down primarily because membership dues are down. Fewer people renewed memberships than the NRA expected through August 2021. And the group made less money off new members than it expected too. thereload.com/internal-repor…
The good news? They paid off $14 million in debt and still brought in about a million dollars more than they ended up spending. Of course, this was mainly accomplished by further cutting key services. thereload.com/exclusive-nra-…
Planned giving, where a person commits to giving the NRA part of their estate in their will, also saw a massive decline across the NRA's organizations through the first 8 months of 2021. thereload.com/nra-estate-giv…
The NRA has issued a statement on this. I'm updating the story to include their comments which you can see in full here:

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