NEW: None of the more than dozen bills to criminalize abortion considered this year have passed, but extremists hoping to ban all abortions and put abortion patients on death row continue to flood the zone.

NEW: Charles Koch’s massive political spending hasn’t been enough to avoid a DOJ investigation into alleged fertilizer price fixing, and it faces two class-action lawsuits accusing its subsidiaries in the fertilizer and containerboard industries of antitrust violations.

"Tiffany Justice, one of three original spokesmodels of Moms for Liberty who moved on to Heritage Action, has lost her job at Heritage after only seven months."

NEW: At Fairview Health Services in the Twin Cities, hospital administrators are resisting efforts by labor union leaders to establish clear protocols for ensuring that patients are protected from ICE officers & that caregivers are able to do their jobs & provide all patients with the care they need

David Armiak, Research Director for the Center for Media and Democracy, joins Court Accountability Action's Evan Vorpahl on @legalafmtn.bsky.social to discuss CMD's IRS complaint against the Republican Attorneys General Association and the dark money networks funding state AGs.

Congress must not once again extend FISA Section 702 without stopping abuses that allow surveillance of Americans, including journalists. Read the letter we signed with over 80 other organizations: demandprogress.org/wp-content/u...

Update: This afternoon Bayfield County, WI will vote on whether to greenlight the sheriff's office purchasing over $100,000 in riot gear. They'll use it to respond to protests agains the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline reroute around the Bad River reservation And they aim for Enbridge to pay for it 1/

PRESS RELEASE: CMD filed two complaints today with the IRS against the Republican Governors Association & Republican State Leadership Committee for failing to itemize their contributions & expenditures in their 2025 Year-end reports.

NEW: Several groups affiliated with ALEC have been waging a well-funded campaign to call a convention under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to amend our Constitution. The Heritage Foundation, the prime force driving Project 2025, has strongly endorsed the effort to call an Article V convention.

ICYMI: The Texas Public Policy Foundation has launched a new funding stream well beyond its home state to support groups with a history of election denialism. In addition to the SPN affiliate’s work in Texas, TPPF funded “election judge” trainings in Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada in 2024.

PUBLISHED: The Texas Public Policy Foundation has launched a new funding stream well beyond its home state to support groups with a history of election denialism. In addition to the SPN affiliate’s work in Texas, TPPF funded “election judge” trainings in Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada in 2024.

PUBLISHED: The ultra-right State Freedom Caucus Network now has at least 15 state affiliates, with new caucuses announced last month in Minnesota and West Virginia. At least 167 lawmakers are members in the 15 states, according to a CMD review.

DraftKings wants your legislature. @matthewccook5.bsky.social reports a DraftKings-backed super PAC is pouring $1.2M into Illinois Democratic primaries, backing candidates who’ll block tighter rules and higher taxes after the state’s per-bet tax cut into profits.

NEW: The sports gambling industry is pouring more than a million dollars into local Illinois races in a gambit to evade regulations and higher taxes.

ICYMI: The Center for Media and Democracy filed an IRS complaint yesterday against the Republican Attorneys General Association for failing to disclose Its donors in its latest filing. Read more 👇

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Recent tax filings from the Conservative Partnership Institute, led by notorious election deniers Cleta Mitchell & Mark Meadows, show that CPI massively increased funding to Mitchell’s efforts to create a national panic over essentially nonexistent instances of noncitizen voting in the 2024 election

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BREAKING: The Center for Media & Democracy filed a complaint today with the Internal Revenue Service against the Republican Attorneys General Association for failure to itemize its contributions and expenditures in its 2025 year-end report due on January 31, 2026, as required by law.

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Catch CMD's Matthew Cunningham-Cook on @legalafmtn.bsky.social with @thelisagraves.bsky.social where they discussed CMD’s new report on how the Musk/Trump playbook of destruction was pioneered in North Carolina where mega-donor Art Pope was given levers of power to wreak havoc on public policy.

ICYMI: Two of the largest right-wing super PACs, the Koch political network’s Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action) and Club for Growth Action, have disclosed their 2025 contributions and are starting to disclose their 2026 election expenditures.

Mom’s Club is a haunting piece of film that takes a vital look into where this country is heading, why and who is responsible. If you care about LGBTQIA+ protections or cinematography this should absolutely be on your list. There’s a virtual screening tomorrow and you should ABSOLUTELY check it out.

NEW: Two of the largest right-wing super PACs, the Koch political network’s Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action) and Club for Growth Action, have disclosed their 2025 contributions. AFP Action raised $28.9 mil and CFG Action raised $15.8 mil.

ICYMI: What We Can Learn From North Carolina’s “Moral Mondays”

As Trump escalates an anti-democratic crackdown, organizers can look to North Carolina's “Moral Mondays” a weekly action + a broad coalition led by Rev. William J. Barber & the NAACP. @matthewccook5.bsky.social offers a roadmap for organizers looking to fight back.

I reported on the past, present, and future of North Carolina's Moral Mondays, for @exposedbycmd.bsky.social in conjunction with @inthesetimes.com.

NEW piece co-published with @inthesetimes.com: As Trump intensifies his anti-democratic crackdown, North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement offers a roadmap for organizers looking to fight back.

NEW: Uline CEO and GOP megadonor Richard Uihlein funneled $15.3 mil into his Restoration of America PAC in the 2nd half of 2025, its latest FEC filing shows. Uihlein’s contributions to the PAC account for over 90% of the total revenue between July and December of 2025, CMD calculated.

ICYMI: Government censorship hit an all-time high on U.S. college campuses in 2025. Read more 👇

Reviews are coming in from our first virtual private screening of Mom's Club! Don't miss the second private virtual donors screening February 15th at 4pm PT. gofund.me/0f829a8af

🚨 A U.S. House representative said she is crafting legislation to stop climate lawsuits and climate superfund laws that would make Big Oil companies pay for climate damages. It’s time for leaders in Congress to speak out and make clear that Big Oil is not above the law. 📣 NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL 📣

NEW: Government censorship hit an all-time high on U.S. college campuses in 2025. That’s the main takeaway of a recent report by @penamerica.bsky.social based on a comprehensive survey of state and federal attacks on freedom at colleges and universities across the country.

"HHS has been referring to gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary Americans as 'sex-rejecting procedures' since November...The term has no basis in medical or clinical practice. It originates instead from a conservative Catholic group called the Ethics and Public Policy Center"

6 DAYS TO GO! In less than a week, we’ll be sharing Moms Club in our Private Virtual Donor Screening. Donating at any level helps us reach the finish line. Sharing the GoFundMe helps bring more people into the conversation. Thank you for being part of Moms Club! gofund.me/8c56bc79a

We’ve made a change we think will make the event more accessible for everyone: our private screening of Moms Club is now virtual! When: Feb 5th at 7:00 PM PT Thank you for the support so far—and for helping us finish this film and get it out to the people who need to see it! gofund.me/63701e17c

Mike Pence's group Advancing American Freedom has poached another from Heritage Foundation: Hans von Spakovsky. Spakovsky is a voter suppressionist with a long history of promoting myths of voter fraud. He will be a Senior Legal Fellow in the new Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law at AAF.

In this News Brief, "How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota," we detail how CBS, WSJ, NYT promoted an overblown narrative on the "Somali Minnesota fraud" story, teeing up a full blown rightwing incitement campaign. w/ @matthewccook5.bsky.social

When it comes to the crackdown on fraudulent activity in Minnesota, “the administration’s preferred narrative has been advanced in widespread coverage by corporate media outlets,” writes @matthewccook5.bsky.social with @exposedbycmd.bsky.social: trib.al/i6Uhp3R

Got a new one from @matthewccook5.bsky.social and our friends at @exposedbycmd.bsky.social on the rather credulous reporting pushing the Minnesota benefit fraud scandals, and the blanket statements associating all Somalians with this thievery. prospect.org/2025/12/29/c...

The corporate media's coverage of the Minnesota frauds has missed key facts. Numbers have been exaggerated and administration talking points have been echoed, namely that Somali Minnesotans are inclined towards fraud. Our latest report: www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/12/29/c...

In 2024, Pence's Advancing American Freedom brought in $13.7 million and spent $11 million according to its latest IRS filing obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy.

Get the full breakdown of what went down in this monster trial, from the SLAPP'd podcast for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/investigatio... Or read the print version for @grist.org + @drilledmedia.bsky.social (both with support from @exposedbycmd.bsky.social ) grist.org/project/indi...

Sounds like there will NOT be a final ruling in the Energy Transfer vs. Greenpeace case today. Sitting in on the hearing now. Read my update on where things are at here, for @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @exposedbycmd.bsky.social www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/12/17/g...

NEW from @alleenbrown.bsky.social in partnership with @drilledmedia.bsky.social Greenpeace Fights for Survival Against a Fossil Fuel Giant’s $345-Million “SLAPP” Suit

Have you ever had a bad neighbor? The kind that makes you sick, literally? Big Oil company Energy Transfer is all of our neighbors. Their long history of spills, explosions, emissions, and safety violations proves that they’re harming communities. Read More: www.greenpeace.org/usa/bad-neig...

Heritage doled out $9 mil in grants in 2024. The largest grant of $3.5 mil went to its Daily Signal publication. Its next largest grants of $1 mil went to the 170 Freedom Milwaukee 2024 Host Committee and the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee. We published the full list of 2024 grants on Sourcewatch.

The far right Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 2025, raised 32.6% more in 2024 than in 2023, its latest IRS filing obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. It brought in $133.9 mil and spent a whopping $142.2 mil last year.

Consumers' Research top identifiable funding sources are: DonorsTrust: $33,888,100 (2013–24) National Philanthropic Trust: $2,045,000 (2020-2023) Donor Advised Charitable Giving: $1,745,600 (2021; 2023) National Christian Charitable Foundation: $1,000,500 (2022) Rowling Foundation: $500,000 (2021)

Consumers' Research paid out $803K in grants in 2024, the largest of $468K went to its close ally in the fight against "woke capitalism," ESG, & DEI, the State Financial Officers Foundation. See our page on Consumers' Research in our SFOFExposed project 👇