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Alex Kotch
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Co-founder and executive director of the OptOut Media Foundation (@optoutnews). Investigative reporter, musician, NC native. Woodworker: https://t.co/VjLTTvHoRx
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Jul 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Glenn is speaking at "Freedom Fest" alongside stars such as Betsy DeVos!

Sponsors include the Tea Party Patriots, AIER (recently employed a white nationalist), DonorsTrust (biggest funder of white nationalism), and Koch's AFP. freedomfest.com/complete-lineu… Image Here's a recent story of mine about DonorsTrust funding white nationalist hate groups. Not sure I'd be comfortable appearing at an event it sponsored. exposedbycmd.org/2022/06/07/buf…
Jul 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Objectively I think Biden not running would benefit the Dem Party. Hard to imagine a less inspiring leader, especially in the face of a fascist right eviscerating democracy as quickly as possible. Almost anyone in the Dem 2020 primary would have been a more effective president. Voters accepted the narrative from Dem leadership that Biden “gets things done” and can unite the country, and here we are.
Dec 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On Dec. 4, Glenn Greenwald spoke about independent media to the Mises Institute, a right-wing Austrian economics group with ties to Charles Koch and that has members who are neo-Confederates. mises.org/library/critic… Among the Mises academics are Thomas DiLorenzo, Marshall De Rosa, & Donald Livingston, all neo-Confederates who previously worked with the League of the South, and Donald Livingston. Here's my 2018 piece on them. thenation.com/article/archiv…
Aug 27, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
These cranks are so predictable lol I guess when the Trump era breaks your brain you naturally gravitate towards promoting home use of horse dewormers for humans and other similar things bc you’re a medical professional.
Jul 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
SCOOP: At least six state lawmakers affiliated with business lobbying group ALEC were recently active members of the neo-Confederate group Sons of Confederate Veterans, which puts up monuments to the Confederacy and distorts the history of the Civil War. exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/08/ale… ALEC helps lawmakers & lobbyists write model bills. It doesn't have a model bill on monuments, but ALEC CEO Lisa Nelson signed a letter last year approving of Trump's executive order imposing harsh penalties on those who damage monuments. exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/08/ale…
Jun 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
SCOOP: We obtained the first public tax records of right-wing site The Federalist's nonprofit foundation.

It took in $800k in 2019, and we've identified the donors behind most of that money. exposedbycmd.org/2021/06/15/rev… The Federalist is known for publishing defenses of Trump, Covid conspiracy theories, & racist posts.

Unsurprisingly, its donors include Richard Uihlein, who helped bankroll the Jan. 6 rallies, and DonorsTrust, which funds white nationalist hate groups. exposedbycmd.org/2021/06/15/rev…
May 21, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
LOL, the pro-Andrew Yang super PAC's first ad lists top three GOP megadonors who funded it.

Ken Griffin
Jeff Yass
Daniel Loeb
exposedbycmd.org/2021/01/28/the… Here's my recent article showing that Griffin and Yass were two of the biggest donors to super PACs that helped elect the Republicans who voted against the 2020 presidential election results. exposedbycmd.org/2021/01/28/the…
Feb 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Parler's new interim CEO, Mark Meckler, is a rightwing activist who wants to radically rewrite the Constitution to shrink the federal government. exposedbycmd.org/2021/02/15/par… Majority shareholder Rebekah Mercer brought Meckler on as she fired the previous CEO. Also on the "executive committee" is Matthew Richardson, a far-right British Ukip operative & Steve Bannon ally who once said that bigots deserve representation. exposedbycmd.org/2021/02/15/par…
Jan 9, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We need a comprehensive, honest reckoning of how we got to this moment when a mob of people are willing to invade the Capitol to overturn the democratic process. While there are many different factors, a key one is the lengthy GOP campaign of lies about voter fraud. This is a phenomenon that I and many other journalists have been tracking for years. Trump’s job as coup leader would have been more difficult w/o his party & numerous allied groups spreading propaganda about nonexistent fraud, suing against state voting laws, scaring their base.
Jan 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The rioters literally constructed a gallows for people like Rep. Schrader but ok dude Image
Jan 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Interesting how the Republican politicians who inspired the deadly, fascist coup attempt spent the year trying to get antifascists—the ones who challenge the types of people who ransacked the Capitol & killed a cop—classified as terrorists. This is classic fascist propaganda tactics. You inspire violent acts on behalf of your leader and then blame them on the opposing side. Cruz went to far as to sponsor the bill & hold a hearing on nonexistent antifa violence. All of this is meant to exonerate the actual criminals.
Jan 7, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
I'd like to recount how my governor, @andrewcuomo, has led New York during the pandemic:

1. Didn't act while the virus initially took hold & made New York the global epicenter of the virus. propublica.org/article/two-co… 2. He then one-upped himself, forcing nursing homes (you know, the places filled with fragile, elderly people who are most likely to die from COVID) to take in COVID patients. More than 6,700 nursing home residents died of COVID in those facilities. apnews.com/article/virus-…
Jan 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
.@RepublicanAGs, which spent the year spewing unhinged propaganda about allegedly violent anarchists & BLM protesters to scare voters, played a key role in organizing yesterday's march to the Capitol, which ended w/ the deadly coup attempt. documented.net/2021/01/republ… @RepublicanAGs They funded a robocall: "We will march to the Capitol building and call on congress to stop the steal."

Important article by @JamieMCorey. documented.net/2021/01/republ… Image
Jan 7, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
For a while now I’ve referred to the Republican Party as the “GOP-Nazi Party,” a term that @elivalley has used for much longer. I stand by it. The party base
Jan 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@NYGovCuomo scrapped the statewide plan to administer the vaccine at local health departments, only allowing distribution at hospitals, and now he's yelling at & threatening the hospitals for being slow. Such an awful person & governor. @NYGovCuomo It's unconscionable that you have a plan in place, a strategy you've already tested, counties are begging you to greenlight it, and you're refusing. timesunion.com/news/article/N…

Just so happens Cuomo gets massive campaign cash from the hospital lobby. dailyposter.com/p/investigatio…
Jan 5, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1) So the pharmacist who destroyed 500 doses of the covid vaccine is a conspiracy theorist who...wait for it...was radicalized online by rightwing disinformation. You can't tell from this frustrating article, but you search a bit and you find the source. apnews.com/article/wiscon… 2) BBC traces the theory that inspired the man to destroy 500 doses, that the vaccine alters your DNA, to video from osteopath named Carrie Madej. Still no mention of anything else about her aside from the video. bbc.com/news/53525002
Jan 4, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Just a reminder that this MAGA-brained boy is the head of a 501c3 nonprofit charity called Turning Point USA that is forbidden from participating in elections. Not only that, but TPUSA's 501c4 nonprofit affiliate, Turning Point Action, owns a group called Students for Trump, which Kirk leads along with fellow Trump sycophant Ryan Fournier. trumpstudents.org/about
Jan 3, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Niko House is a conspiracy theorist about: Las Vegas massacre, Bill Cosby’s serial rape, and Pizzagate. huffpost.com/entry/tulsi-ga… It’s ok though, this whole movement was started by a comedian who is a conspiracy theorist and also a multimillionaire who bought a $2 million home during COVID. Cool stuff. yahoo.com/amphtml/entert…
Jan 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I went to @ryangrim’s page to find the tweet AOC quotes here to speculate about who forced the end of PAYGO & if it was the same people being attacked nonstop by an abusive comedian & his fans and...yep. The House rules don’t get rid of PAYGO completely but clearly erase it for the Green New Deal and probably for M4A in the context of COVID. It’s a very very important step towards progressive legislation & why I argued the left should focus more on procedure than vote on 1 bill.
Dec 5, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
SCOOP from @duboo at @EXPOSEDbyCMD:

Who funds The Federalist?

GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein, the billionaire CEO of shipping supply company Uline.

In August 2019, his family foundation gave $400,000 to the @FDRLST Media Foundation. beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2042… @duboo @EXPOSEDbyCMD @FDRLST You saw it here first! @duboo obtained the 2019 990 tax record from the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation.

Uihlein is the 5th-biggest donor to outside political spending groups this year (at least $62.9 million). opensecrets.org/outsidespendin…
Dec 4, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
🚨 SCOOP 🚨
DonorsTrust, the "dark money ATM of the conservative movement," gave a whopping $1.5 million to white nationalist hate group VDARE and $10,500 to the nonprofit behind the white nationalist publication American Renaissance in 2019. exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/04/dar… DonorsTrust is a favorite funding vehicle for billionaire GOP megadonors like Koch, DeVos, and Mercer.

This is the first time, to our knowledge, that DonorsTrust has donated to explicitly white nationalist groups. exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/04/dar…