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@JuddLegum
Feb 8, 2022 • 8 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
1. BREAKING

Republican Attorneys General (@RepublicanAGs) accepted an illegal $50,000 contribution from Children's Health Defense, RFK Jr's anti-vaccine propaganda.

The donation could threaten CHD's tax-exempt status.

Follow along if interested.

popular.info/p/republican-a…
@RepublicanAGs 2. Children's Health Defense is a charity. As a condition of its non-profit status with the IRS, CHD is absolutely prohibited from engaging in political activity.

@RepublicanAGs is a 527. It is dedicated to influencing elections for public office.

popular.info/p/republican-a…
@RepublicanAGs 3. The IRS is VERY CLEAR that a 501(c)(3) charity, like Children's Health Defense, may not donate to a 527 like @RepublicanAGs.

But that's exactly what happened on July 12, 2021.

popular.info/p/republican-a…
@RepublicanAGs 4. In a statement to popular.info, Children's Health Defense admitted that their contribution to @RepublicanAGs was illegal.

They claim they paid 50K to get access to Republican AGs to brief the on "health policy issues"

popular.info/p/republican-a…
5. @RepublicanAGs did not respond to a request for comment.

But the donation raises serious questions about the group's relationship with one of the most pernicious and prodigious producers of vaccine misinformation in the world.

popular.info/p/republican-a…
6. Popular Information is an independent newsletter that relentlessly FOLLOWS THE MONEY

If that's a topic that interests you, please subscribe and stay informed.

It's free to sign up --> popular.info/subscribe
7. On January 5, 2021, the "policy arm" of the @RepublicanAGs sent robo calls encouraging people to come to DC and "Stop the Steal."

In April, the group promoted Peter Bisbee, who authorized the robocalls, to be head of the entire organization

popular.info/p/republican-a…
@RepublicanAGs 8. In December, Louisana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a member of RAGA, invited Kennedy to appear at a hearing on vaccines.

Kennedy used the opportunity to “spread misinformation about the risks of the vaccine.”

popular.info/p/republican-a…

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May 2
1. In his 2024 campaign, Trump is pitting native-born Americans against immigrants

Trump tells his crowds that immigrants are going to take their jobs and reduce their wages

New data, however, confirms that these claims are false

Immigrants are saving the US economy

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2. In 2023, the US economy grew at a 2.5% rate, "outpacing all other advanced economies."

The US is on track "to do so again in 2024."

This is only possible because of a substantial increase in immigration.

popular.info/p/immigrants-a…
3. Since February 2020, there has been no net job growth among native-born Americans. The native-born workforce is flat or shrinking. Baby boomers are retiring, and birth rates are low. But there has been substantial job growth in the US since 2/20 because more immigrants are working.Image
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May 1
1. When Trump ran in 2016, he pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade

And that's exactly what he did.

Now, Trump is describing what abortion policy will look like if he wins in 2024.

We should probably pay attention. Image
2. Trump said if he wins another term in office, it would be up to states whether or not to punish women for receiving an abortion

This isn't a hypothetical

Louisiana legislators introduced a bill that would impose the same criminal punishments on a woman who receives an abortion as a woman who drowns her baby
3. Trump also said that he would permit states to monitor pregnant women to determine if they violate abortion bans

It's a dystopian vision of an anti-abortion surveillance state

popular.info/p/trump-backs-…
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Apr 29
1. Millions of Americans may lose their internet access TOMORROW

Among those impacted will be 90,447 people in @SpeakerJohnson's district alone

It doesn't need to happen. But Johnson is making sure it does

Follow along for details

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2. The last budget signed by Trump included $3.2 billion to help families afford internet access

The program was formalized and expanded by Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law, which was signed into law in November 2021

It's been a smashing success

popular.info/p/why-millions…
3. The Affordable Connectivity Program provides $30/month to help low-income families (earning up to 200% of the poverty line) afford internet

Today, the ACP is "helping 23 million households – 1 in 6 households across America."

The program has particularly benefited "rural communities, veterans, and older Americans"
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Apr 25
1. The nation's largest for-profit hospital chain is putting pregnant women at risk by failing to provide doctors with clear guidance about how to handle medical emergencies in states with abortion bans

Women in desperate need of treatment are being turned away

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2. The same for-profit hospital chain @HCAhealthcare is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to the legislators behind these abortion bans

We documented hundreds of thousands of contributions to 129 anti-abortion legislators across three states

popular.info/p/the-largest-…
3. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that it is critical that hospitals "provide guidance that permits treatment to the full extent of applicable state law and support and defend their clinicians when they provide care to patients."

@HCAhealthcare does not do that
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Apr 23
1. Amdist the chaos of April 2024, there is something that has gotten relatively little attention: a historic victory for union organizing in Chattanooga, Tennessee

And it wasn't just a victory for unions

It was a stinging defeat for Charles Koch and his right-wing allies

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2. The NLRB certified that workers at a Volkswagen auto plant in Chattanooga voted to join the @UAW. The union secured a commanding 73% of the vote.

Koch and others have spent more than a decade trying to prevent this from happening

popular.info/p/a-historic-v…
3. In 2014, a constellation of right-wing groups launched an aggressive campaign to defeat an earlier unionization effort at the VW plant in Chattanooga. They spent months distributing "materials...detailing the negative economic consequences of UAW representation."
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Apr 22
1. An inflection point in the situation at Columbia was the president's decision to call in the NYPD and arrest over 100 students who were protesting Israel's operations in Gaza on the south lawn.

To understand the gravity of this decision, some historical context

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2. In the early morning hours of April 30, 1968, then-Columbia University President Grayson Kirk summoned the NYPD to arrest hundreds of student protestors. About 1,000 police officers arrived on campus and, wielding nightsticks, violently arrested about 700 students. Almost 150 protesters ended up in the hospital with lacerations, broken bones, and other injuries.
3. The students were protesting Columbia's plans to build a large gymnasium in a public park used by the Black community in Harlem. 88% of the facility would be limited to staff and students. Only 12% of the gym would be available to community residents, and they would be forced to use a separate entrance at the bottom of the facility.

Protesters called the proposal "Gym Crow."Image
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