Sample Price List of RAGA’s Pay-to-Play Operation
The Republican Attorneys General Association is, and always has been, a pay-to-play operation. Here is one of many samples of its price sheet for special access to the top law…
Robert Hur’s Partisan Roots Help Explain His Election-Year Jabs at President Joe Biden
By Lisa Graves Last week, Special Counsel Robert Hur announced that President Joe Biden will not be charged for possessing some classified materials from his time as Vice President in…
New Political Hit Job Targeting Wyss Is Tied, Again, to Leonard Leo’s Dark Money Attack Machine
Leo’s CRC Advisors Has Raked in More than $93 Million from Groups Funded via His Network, Including More than $1 Million from the Group at the Center of this Attack…
Who Is Mark Paoletta? He Is One of the Biggest Defenders of Clarence and Ginni Thomas in the Scandals Their Actions Have Created
One of the most aggressive defenders of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is Mark Paoletta. He has assailed Senators and reporters who raise concerns about the serious ethical issues…
Five Facts about Rob Arkley, Funder of Luxury Travel for Supreme Court Justices and Groups Packing the Court
What Just Happened? Senator Dick Durbin has announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on a subpoena to Robin Pickering Arkley II on Thursday, November 9, as the Committee investigates…
A Backgrounder on Jeff Yass, the Right-Wing Billionaire Trying to Capture the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
By Lisa Graves, Evan Vorpahl, and Caitlin Mahoney (October 2023) American democracy has a billionaire problem. It’s not just that they’re not paying their fair share of taxes: they’re trying…
TNR in Popular Information: “Inside the Campaign to Cancel Sex Ed”
"At the end of June, right-wing advocacy group Moms for Liberty held its annual summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The summit included a session called 'Comprehensive Sex Education: Sex Ed or Sexualization' led…
Truthout: A Jan. 6 “Moms” Group Funded by Big Lie Donors Is Stoking Voter Suppression
By Alyssa Bowen Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a Florida-based heiress to the Publix super markets fortune, was little known to the public before she was outed as a major sponsor of the dark…
TNR in The Guardian:”Rightwing group planned $6m for anti-trans messaging in 2022″
In the months leading up to the 2022 US midterm elections, hundreds of thousands of Facebook users in swing states were targeted with advertisements asking them to sign the Women’s…
Truthout: New Details From Leonard Leo’s Trust Fund Expose the Inner Workings of the Right
By Evan Vorpahl Newly obtained documents show that the billion-dollar trust fund given to Leonard Leo — the right-wing attorney and longtime leader the Federalist Society who orchestrated Donald Trump’s…