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Jul 1 4 tweets 1 min read
Trump gave $1m to Mark Meadows' c3 nonprofit, where insurrection atty Cleta Mitchell is building an army of election-denier poll watchers in battleground states like Wisconsin, through hosting "election integrity" summits for rightwing activists. 1/
These summits are funded with taxpayer-subsidized money and are supposed to be NONPARTISAN in nature. C3 orgs are prohibited from engaging in partisan political activity.

And yet Sen Ron Johnson gave a flagrantly partisan speech at Cleta's WI summit last wkend... 2/
...on his strategy for flipping seats from D to R. Sen Johnson told the crowd "it's all about getting votes."

To a crowd of election deniers who will work the polls in a state that could very well determine control of the Senate. 3/
Some journos have remarked to me that these violations are common, not a big deal. But working in the progressive nonprofit space, I can most assuredly tell you that it is not common with regard to election infrastructure. This is a big deal. 4/

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