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Michael Beckel
@mjbeckel
.@IssueOneReform & @IssueOneAction research director. Investigating #darkmoney. Defending elections. Protecting democracy. Alum: @publicintegrity @OpenSecretsDC
Mar 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🚨Tax filing obtained by @IssueOneReform reveals new financial information about nonprofit peddling election conspiracies founded by millionaire former @Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, Joe Flynn & retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn known as The America Project issueone.org/articles/docum… Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn helped launch The America Project in 2021, which peddles election lies. A new tax filing shows the group paid one of his companies $200,000 for “strategic consulting" that year issueone.org/articles/docum…
Jun 3, 2021 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
A new #FEC doc shows @FEC has officially shut down one of the most memorable scam PACs of the 2016 election — a group called Americans Socially United, which bilked scores of donors, including actor Daniel Craig, while purporting to support @BernieSanders

docquery.fec.gov/pdf/019/202105… Americans Socially United purported to support Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential bid but did little to actually aid Sanders.

The Sanders campaign, in fact, tried in vain to get the PAC to cease its activities in 2015, as I reported for @publicintegrity

publicintegrity.org/politics/super…
Mar 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
New FEC docs show that 96% of the money the pro-Elizabeth Warren Persist PAC super PAC raised came from Democratic megadonor Karla Jurvetson of California, who gave $14.6 MILLION ow.ly/PNlL30qrsCL Prior to bankrolling the pro-Warren Persist PAC super PAC, Karla Jurvetson's Women.Vote 501(c)(4) #darkmoney group had supported Warren in a newspaper ad in Iowa that drew condemnation from Warren's campaign ow.ly/nwRG30qrsEi cc @AlxThomp
Apr 8, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Fact: 84% of members of Congress have leadership PACs, including 99 out of 100 current senators and 348 out of the 432 sitting House members (including ~35% of House freshmen whose terms began in January) Leadership PACs are concerning because they allow donors to legally contribute significantly more than they can to politicians’ campaign committees, presenting them with another avenue through which to gain even more access and influence with lawmakers bit.ly/2F0Kbp4
Sep 12, 2018 • 8 tweets • 8 min read
More than $800M has been spent in elections by #darkmoney groups since #CitizensUnited per @OpenSecretsDC

Did you know that the top 15 groups account for 75% of this spending?

A new @IssueOneReform report examines these 15 major dark money groups

issueone.org/dark-money/ Fact: Most of the top #darkmoney groups are attack dogs. For 14 of the top 15 groups, more than 50% of their spending on ads overtly calling for the election or defeat of candidates from 2010 to 2016 was negative. For 6 groups, more than 90% was negative bit.ly/2QnsXFB