"The Center for Media and Democracy’s David Armiak, who has tracked the Concord Fund–RAGA money for years, broke the Right Vote transfer on May 8, 2026. RAGA’s first-quarter 2026 IRS filing lists Right Vote among the top donors of a $9.6 million quarter."

NEW: With gas prices across the country soaring since Trump launched his war on Iran on Feb 28, American consumers have already shelled out $43.6 billion in higher energy costs. And they’re continuing to spend roughly $200 million more a day on gas than before the war.

NEW: Voter suppression activist & documented insurrectionist Cleta Mitchell has released a "Model Election Laws Handbook" via her Election Integrity Network. The handbook includes model policies that would force voters to face poll charges (via ID requirements), reduce opportunities to vote, & more.

NEW: CfA urged the State Financial Officer’s Foundation (SFOF) to remove Board President Seth Metcalf from his role. Court records reveal Mr. Metcalf engaged in an effort to induce an Ohio teachers' pension fund to hire his unqualified company to manage nearly 70% of its assets.

I don’t think Peter Thiel’s network has received enough attention for having elevated Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson. Exhibit A is Tucker’s weird softball interview of Wilson in May 2024 at a time when Tucker’s media company was still backed by 1789 Capital. 1/

Wow. I just previewed “Moms Club,” an amazing doc re the astroturfed SoCal school board wars & the moms fighting back. Jaw-dropping—especially where they infiltrate a meeting of the CNP, the secretive Christian Right umbrella driving the school board wars. Private May 15 screening link in post 2. 1/

Join @amnesty.org and our @attorneynora.bsky.social on Tuesday, May 12, for "The Press Under Threat: Protecting Journalism and the Public’s Right to Know." This webinar will discuss the current threats facing journalists and media workers globally. www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/wo...

NEW: Later this month, the Chicago City Council is expected to approve an ordinance that bars city law enforcement officers from “actively participating” in extremist groups such as the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers.

NEW: The Republican Attorneys General Association received $2 mil from the Heritage & Leonard Leo-tied operation Right Vote in January. In all, RAGA raised $9.6 mil in the first 3 months of the year — almost double the $5.3 mil it amassed in the first quarter of 2024, the last major election year.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

Clarence Thomas is set to become the second-longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court. His legacy is marred by ethics scandals that highlight the lack of accountability for justices. It's past time to reform the Court. bit.ly/42Ql6qg

Madison friends! Come out to Marcus Point on Sunday for a screening of Steal this story, please! followed by a Q&A with the directors.

"Here, a select group of students are quietly prepared for careers in the GRU – Russia’s military intelligence directorate, whose operatives have hacked western parliaments, poisoned dissidents on foreign soil and interfered in elections across Europe and the US."

Kasey Meehan, director of PEN America's Freedom to Read program, told PW that the new report “pushes back on the prevailing narrative around the book ban movement, that it's removing harmful, obscene, or inappropriate material. We know that to not be true.” www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The state of academic freedom in Texas is dire: Texas Tech is now banning "future graduate student theses, dissertations and other degree-culminating research or projects from centering on sexual orientation or gender identity."

“Surrounding the shield is a band of text featuring Patel’s director title and his favored spelling of his first name: ka$h. An eagle holds the shield in its talons, along with the number 9, presumably a reference to Patel’s place in the history of FBI directors.”

The astroturf group Moms for Liberty, a designated hate group by SPLC, is bringing its Glenn Beck party to San Diego in June. I guess they didn’t raise enough money in New York.

TPUSA is expanding again open.substack.com/pub/matthewb...

Great to see the IRS pulling the curtain around tax-exempt fiscal sponsorships and projects. The loophole has allowed far too many nonprofit groups to hide their finances and organizational structures.

Join us on Sunday in Madison for a screening of Steal this story, please! followed by a Q&A with the film directors.

Media Matters secures complete and total victory against Federal Trade Commission www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

Hmmmm, who do I trust more to look out for women, Smith College or a Trump appointee currently being sued for covering up years of sexual abuse?

And what do farmers provide? America’s food supply, that’s what.

video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKT...

Israel seized 175 activists from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters off Greece. Two remain jailed in Israel with no charges filed. Spain and Brazil call the detentions illegal kidnapping.

Footage of LAPD officers detaining me for allegedly being in the road while covering the May Day protest in Downtown for @lataco.bsky.social. You can clearly see that other people are in the road. But I was the only person who was detained and cited. Video by Benjamin Hanson.

I assume that the rightwingers who have been railing against "debanking" will not come out to support the Southern Poverty Law Center and condemn Fidelity and Vanguard for blocking donations.

NEW: Ag Front Group Shields Bayer in Controversial Roundup Liability Fights (This is the third in a three-part series on Bayer’s crusade for immunity from Roundup-related cancer claims.)

NEW: Bayer Banks on Congress for Permanent Roundup Immunity (This is the second in a three-part series on Bayer’s crusade for immunity from Roundup-related cancer claims.)

NEW: Bayer “Turns Over Every Stone” to Stiff Roundup Cancer Victims

PUBLISHED: Most Big Political Players on the Right Sat Out Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Race www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/04/16/m...

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the lawyer John Eastman disbarred for his role in seeking to overturn the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump.

Camp recommend this book enough. Thoroughly researched, expert in her field. Scary but necessary read.

Lake Nona Property Holdings is apparently ok with ICE's Lake Nona Concentration Camp existence, but not with the name protestors are using to draw attention to it.

Iranians have formed human chains across bridges and in front of power plants across the country to protest Trump’s threat to target civilian infrastructure and send Iran back to the “Stone Age”.

a small bright spot, Maine gets one step closer to a moratorium. and there are many more similar laws up at the local level across the country

Ohio’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wants to invest taxpayer funds in crypto despite big losses in this sector and for his own company.

The great Gil Scott-Heron wrote his poem Whitey On the Moon over 50 years. Have a listen. Resonates just the same.

Spare a thought and prayer this morning for Arizona State Supe Tom Horne - his Arizona Dept of Ed expert went on TV last night and affirmed my analysis.

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.

Hopefully enviros file suit to stop this. If Trump and the cabinet of dunces actually cared about rising gas prices, they would end the war with Iran and drop tariffs.

"After decades consolidating their control over Area C, Israeli settlers are expanding into Areas B and A — nominally under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction — and displacing communities, a joint investigation reveals."

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.

ALEC has been shilling for the State of Israel for over a decade now. ALEC pushed an anti-BDS model bill; a resolution standing with Israel's genocide; a model bill targeting criticism of Israel in the name of defining antisemitism; and this model renaming the illegally occupied West Bank.

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/