The surveillance company, Flock Safety, shares some information about the cameras it has installed in Dane County, Wisconsin, but it doesn’t disclose their locations and has been hostile to activists’ efforts to map where they are.

From strikes for Gaza to organizing against anti-LGBTQ policies & visions beyond capitalist collapse, read work from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, @alfatau.bsky.social, @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social & more. inthesetimes.com/magazine/cap...

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

Senate Republicans could be trying to end the Iran war or improve the economy. Instead, they are championing Trump’s MAGA voter suppression bill.

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.

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/

The complaints follow a similar complaint CMD made against the Republican Attorneys General Association on March 3. Taken together, the three GOP groups are collectively obscuring from the public the sources of $64.2 mil in donations along with the recipients of $64.3 mil in spending.

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.

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.

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 👇

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.

Voters in two major Texas counties were turned away at polling locations and directed to different precincts Tuesday, after a recent change in how the primary is conducted created confusion and frustration.

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“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,’”

That'd be news to Alex Pretti, and Renee Good, and …

My interest in this “Democrats” group was piqued when the Koch-funded FIRE, which defends right-wing interests, rushed to its side in Illinois. So I took a look at what makes this group “Democats.” Their public filings and website provide no substantiation. We asked them directly … and got no reply

Republican mega donors are gearing up for midterm elections with some familiar themes, @armiak.bsky.social at @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social told me, among them attacks on trans rights, racial equity and abortion access.

⭕️ Heavy rains flooded hundreds of displacement tents across Gaza overnight, prompting urgent rescue calls as roads were submerged in areas like Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, according to Civil Defense and local authorities. Gaza Municipality confirmed to Al Jazeera it received dozens of emergency...

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.

New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby. Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses www.404media.co/this-app-war...

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

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.

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

$6.5 mil of which AFP Action raised in 2025 came from Charles Koch’s Stand Together Chamber of Commerce. Club for Growth Action, the political arm of the advocacy group Club for Growth, received $10 mil from charter school advocate and securities billionaire Jeffrey Yass in 2025.

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.

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.

My latest in @texasobserver.org The ‘Antifa Scare’ Goes on Trial in North Texas: As nine of the "Prairieland 19" face their days in court, the broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance. www.texasobserver.org/antifa-scare...

Federal Judge Orders Return of Deported Babson College Student Any Lucia López Belloza Back to the U.S.

Note that this is a newish amendment to the Save America Act. The earlier version was plenty bad. But this is even worse. Curiously, I had a really hard time finding this latest version online. I knew to look only bc the Brennan Center alluded to an amendment along these lines.

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

PUBLISHED: 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.

Don’t Miss The Virtual Private Donor Screening – This Sunday! gofund.me/64405c30a

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

“This is really an attack on institutional governance and self governance,” @isaackamola.bsky.social, director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, told CMD. “The absolute goal is to make sure that politicians are able to determine what goes on on college campuses.”

“Whether or not you’re public, if the state is passing [censorship bills], there is, like pebbles going into the water, [an] expanding circle of impact,” she told the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). -Amy Reid, director of PEN America’s Freedom to Learn program & co-author of the report

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"

SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals. The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group. www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...

"The DHS was founded in the wake of the terrorist attack on 9/11. It immediately began infringing on the civil rights of Muslim Americans...The DHS must be abolished. Any politician who argues otherwise is complicit in the rise of American fascism."

Wisconsin's Republican candidate for Governor Rep. Tom Tiffany recently appeared with the @splcenter.org designated hate group Moms for Liberty at the Wisconsin Capitol for "legislative day." Trump gave Tiffany his "Complete and Total Endorsement" last month.

“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found.”

The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month. www.wired.com/story/hundre...

Republicans in Arizona want to slap parents with a "Class 4 felony, a designation typically reserved for serious violent and property crimes," if they take their kids to a drag show. So much for parents rights!

😳 Musk’s “DOGE” overhauled the The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (“SAVE”) program,” which Trump & MAGA want states to use to PURGE supposed noncitizens from the VOTER ROLLS under the GOP’s proposed “SAVE Act”. Experts warn that “SAVE” isn’t accurate enough for this. WTH?!!! 1/ .

"A federal district judge on Wednesday declared a 2021 law restricting state investments in companies boycotting the fossil fuel industry unconstitutional, calling it “facially overbroad” and citing First and Fourteenth Amendment concerns."

Yes, the GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would also disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my one-page summary below. Tell your Senators “NO on SAVE!” 5/

The right-wing extremists Moms for Liberty rented out the entire Ellis Island to celebrate its 5th anniversary with Glenn Beck and the Bartons on May 2.