15 yrs ago, Peter Thiel was eating in a DC Baja Fresh talking with Evan Baehr about the state of the conservative movement, and admiring the impact of Leonard Leo's @FedSoc. Soon after, Baehr, who had been working for Thiel, founded Teneo. Leo is now the group's chair.
Teneo is a Federalist Society for everything. Read my story with @AndyKroll + @AndreaBNYC, a partnership between @ItsDocumented + @propublica. Reporting is based on 50+ hours of internal Teneo recordings, internal documents, and interviews with members. documented.net/reporting/insi…
Teneo's "Community Vision" book is an 85-page manifesto aimed at transforming US culture. The doc bemoans efforts by some in the republican party/think-tanks/media to "engage a mass, grassroots audience." This is a top-down/elites vision for change. documented.net/media/teneo-co… 
Here is a bit of video that didn't make the story, but is more than a little intriguing. On a call with new members in 2019, Teneo Founder and then CEO Evan Baehr said: "we have current Justices on this call." Who could he be talking about?
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