Last week, Politico reported that “New Right” billionaire Peter Thiel drops another $1.5M for Blake Masters as campaign feels cash pinch: Billionaire Peter Thiel’s support for Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters has now grown to $15 million as the venture capitalist and tech entrepreneur continued this month to pour money into the race to boost … Read more
Update to Election Denier Trump Thugs Force County Election Officials To Quit, Plotting Election Disruption. MSNBC’s Joy Reid examins the little-known Conservative Partnership Institute which reportedly supports and hosts MAGA-world figures from Trump’s White House such as Mark Meadows, plus other prominent conservatives named in the Jan. 6 probe such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, according … Read more
The Daily Beast reports, The GOP Dark Money Group Giving Big to White Supremacists: Efforts to overturn the election. Jan. 6 organizers. White supremacist groups. And more than a dozen private and public universities. They all have one thing in common: They received anonymous funding funneled through a single conservative dark money behemoth. That’s the … Read more
Above Image: Charles and David Koch, and Leonard Leo. h/t Slate. Christopher Rufo and the right-wing Manhattan Institute for Policy Research have rebranded critical race theory into an appeal to white identity politics. But they are using this new scare word for an ulterior motive. It is the latest attempt by right-wing billionaires to use race … Read more
Election law expert Rick Hasen in an essay a the New York Times explains The Supreme Court Is Putting Democracy at Risk: In two disturbing rulings closing out the Supreme Court’s term, the court’s six-justice conservative majority, over the loud protests of its three-liberal minority, has shown itself hostile to American democracy. In one case, … Read more