🧵 THREAD: The CAIR–Muslim Brotherhood–Hamas Pipeline They Don't Want You to See
This thread has been a long time coming.
Let's start with a simple fact:
In its 1988 charter, Hamas openly declares itself the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
So here's the question:
🇺🇸 Why hasn't the U.S. designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization?
Seems obvious, right?
Here’s my answer 👇
If the Muslim Brotherhood is formally labeled a terror group...
➡️ Then CAIR, founded by leaders from the Brotherhood's U.S. network, gets implicated too.
And if CAIR gets implicated…
➡️ Then so do a lot of politicians.
📍And that’s the line no one in D.C. wants to cross.
So instead, the Brotherhood stays "undesignated."
CAIR keeps the civil rights label and keeps its tax advantaged nonprofit status.
And the public is left in the dark.
Patience as I pull the receipts.
CAIR was co-founded by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad.
Awad was the public relations director for the Islamic Association for Palestine, an organization that was convicted of providing material support for the terrorism in the United States and has since been dissolved.
Sorry, it's hard to trace sources - I'm finding out that a lot of the information about Awad and Ahmad are censored. For example, this is Ahmad's Wikipedia page - nearly empty.
Where Awad was Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)'s public relations director, Omar Ahmad was its President.
IAP was one of the three subsidiaries of the Palestine Committee, all aimed at supporting Hamas.
So, CAIR co-founders Ahmad and Awad were intimately tied with the implicated pro-Hamas IAP, which was under the Palestine Committee umbrella.
What is the Palestine Committee? Well, it was formed by the Muslim Brotherhood to advance the cause of Hamas in the United States.
Palestine Committee consisted of three sub-organizations: IAP which was its "all-purpose" public-facing organization, Occupied Land Fund (which later became the Holy Land Foundation, HLF) which was its financial organization, and United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) as its thinktank.
CAIR claims that it does not receive foreign funding, but that is a lie. We know of at least one instance where CAIR received $250,000 from an official Saudi bank.
An internal memo presented in the Holy Land Foundation case shows that CAIR was considered part of the Palestine Committee itself.
So, yes -
CAIR *is* Muslim Brotherhood.
Federal documents show that CAIR was indeed founded by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and it "conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists."
The Obama Administration would legitimize CAIR and shield it, meeting with them "hundreds" of times. John Brennan ordered the purge of "biased" training materials that portrayed Muslims in negative light.
But it was not just Obama. President George W Bush stood with Nihad Awad himself at a mosque a few days after 9/11 in a press conference to condemn rising anti-Muslim sentiment.
Obama DNI James Clapper famously labeled the Muslim Brotherhood as secular.
I cannot over-emphasize to what extent CAIR is deeply involved in Washington politics. Awad being a high-dollar donor to Nancy Pelosi is just one example - @bullfrog35 has documented many instances where high-ranking Democratic officials have spoken at CAIR or accepted CAIR awards or displayed CAIR letters in their offices.
@bullfrog35 DHS met with CAIR on civil rights issues.
In 2002, Saudi Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal donated $500,000 to CAIR. He was famously arrested by crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman shortly after the 2017 Vegas mass shooting. Talal allegedly owns the top 5 floors of the Mandalay Bay and is the subject of numerous conspiracy theories for that event.
@bullfrog35 CAIR itself is explicitly an "unindicted conspirator" in a scheme to funnel millions to Hamas.
@bullfrog35 Documents mention that the United Arab Emirates Bin Hamoodh Group and UAE minister of finance Hamdan bin Rashid finance CAIR.
@bullfrog35 CAIR also approached Saudi Arabia for 50 million dollars, although the outcome of that isn't clear.
@bullfrog35 It wouldn't be a DataRepublican thread if I didn't point out that, yeah, Soros backed CAIR:
@bullfrog35 As mentioned before, many Democratic officials cooperate with CAIR. Mamdani welcomed them. Minnesota AG Keith Ellison explicitly endorses CAIR. Most recently, CAIR welcomed the July 2025 "Hijab on the Hill" event involving the Congressional Muslim Staff Association.
@bullfrog35 I will wrap up this thread for now.
But make no mistake:
Hamas is Muslim Brotherhood.
CAIR is Muslim Brotherhood.
CAIR is financed by foreign organizations.
CAIR is deep in the machine of DC politics.
The Democratic party has a foreign operative problem.
@bullfrog35 Follow this link for CAIR receipts that @bullfrog35 has been collecting for years, and prepare to be sickened: x.com/search?q=from%…
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. @PunchbowlNews would you like to comment on this business model I've reversed engineered of how you keep @LeaderJohnThune in line?
@PunchbowlNews @LeaderJohnThune Punchbowl, would you also like to comment on how virtually every major sponsor of yours has donated to John Thune for a total of 1.2 million?
@AndrewDesiderio , any comments?
@PunchbowlNews @LeaderJohnThune @AndrewDesiderio By the way ... the only people who are sponsoring me on this are my $3/month subscribers. I don't know any heavy hitter here who's been approached to go against SAVE America Act.
I'd been looking at PAC contributions when I should have been looking at the people who actually have daily access to the Capitol - the media. The true lobbyists.
Punchbowl News represents a whole lot of powerful industries and they are unflinching admirers of Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
John Thune is the "paid influencer ecosystem." 𝕏 merely exposed how that machinery works in the Senate.
Just look at the posts of @AndrewDesiderio , their senior Senate "correspondent." Almost every single one is about defeating the SAVE America Act and praising Thune.
Punchbowl isn't shy about where their money comes from. Founder Jack Sherman himself admitted that 90% of Punchbowl's revenue is from "corporate sponsorships." They made 10 million dollars in revenue their first year... what kind of "journalist" company pulls that off?
The podcast featuring them outright describes their business model as getting their money from "sponsorships bought by trade groups and companies looking to get their public affairs messaging in front of those making and influencing policy."
Punchbowl got in ethical hot water when they treated a whole bunch of lobbyists to luxury box seats at a NFL game.
If you want to know why SAVE America Act is being slow-walked...
Start with @PunchbowlNews .
. @AndrewDesiderio do you want to share which of your employer's clients are against the SAVE America Act, or should I figure it out myself?
Thune access timeline documented: Five distinct confirmed Punchbowl-Thune interactions between Sept. 2025 and March 2026, including two Fly Out Day appearances. Punchbowl's Feb. 26, 2026 piece declaring the "talking filibuster dead" was the key conventional wisdom-setting event, published before Trump's March 9 ultimatum, using Thune's framing and characterizing SAVE Act supporters as a caucus "tearing itself apart."
🛰️ New Article: Building an OSINT Pipeline to Cut Through the Iranian Conflict Noise.
SPOILER ALERT: We're winning.
I just published a long-form analysis on the Iran conflict and the strategic dynamics around it. Sorry for the Substack-only publication; the article itself was far too long and complex in formatting to publish with 𝕏 tooling. (Feedback to the 𝕏 team - if you can just make full Markdown capability, I would be thrilled.)
Before anything else: I'm only a civilian data analyst, not a military officer or intelligence professional. This piece is the result of two weeks of intensive work where I did something unusual.... I built and experimented with an AI-assisted OSINT synthesis pipeline using military doctrine, think tank research, and public reporting.
Part of the goal was to produce something useful for readers.
But honestly, the bigger goal was education for myself, forcing a structured process to sort signal from noise in an information environment that's chaotic right now.
The pipeline pulls from sources like CSIS, ISW, CEPA, ISIS nuclear reporting, CENTCOM and IDF briefings, plus open-source economic and energy data. Where I step beyond what those sources explicitly state, I mark it clearly as [ASSESSED] and try to show the reasoning.
This article is the first full output of that process.
If you have expertise in:
🔹 air campaign planning
🔹 nuclear nonproliferation
🔹 Middle East security policy
🔹 energy markets
🔹 OSINT methodology
I would genuinely welcome corrections, critiques, or improvements. The entire point is to make the analytical process more rigorous over time.
The pipeline itself will keep evolving. Bring on the rotten tomatoes.
🧵WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: Meet David Pascoe, candidate for SC Attorney General. He's running as a Republican. But is he actually a Democrat?
Joe Biden is in South Carolina today.
Which makes this the perfect moment to introduce you to David Pascoe, candidate for SC Attorney General, running as a Republican, and what he said about Joe Biden in January 2020:
"He is the most decent man I have ever met in American politics. Joe has been a role model of mine for many years. He is someone my sons look up to. Joe is the first and only candidate I have ever endorsed for public office."
That's not only a Democrat who voted for Biden. That's a Democrat who hosted Biden's campaign fundraiser at his own annual oyster roast, endorsed him for president, and was Biden's frontrunner to become US Attorney for South Carolina.
David Pascoe spent 20+ years as an elected Democrat, 6 consecutive terms as SC First Circuit Solicitor. He pushed DEI-style racial quota systems for SC judges as recently as December 2023. Six months before his "conversion," he endorsed a Democratic state rep who voted against banning gender procedures on minors.
And here are the receipts. 👇
As always, patience as I pull together this thread.
David Pascoe spent 20+ years as an elected Democrat, 6 consecutive terms as SC First Circuit Solicitor. On April 10, 2025, he switched to the GOP. SC Dem Chair Christale Spain says he "has been trying to find a lane to run for higher office."
Pascoe switched parties in April 2025.
Pascoe launched his AG campaign in August 2025.
That's 4 months, in a state where no Democrat has won a statewide race since 2006.
You do the math.
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