Lawmakers Spoke Up For an Indicted Chinese Mogul. Campaign Cash Followed.
Mother Jones illustration; NFSC; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The New Federal State of China, a conspiracy theory-promoting group launched in 2020 by Steve Bannon and exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui, who the Justice Department has indicted for…
Grassroots Republicans Aren’t Donating Much Money to Ron DeSantis
AP Photo/Sean Rayford Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ron DeSantis is failing when it comes to grassroots fundraising. The situation has gotten so bad that it’s possible the Florida governor might actually be losing money when it comes to courting small-dollar donors. DeSantis’ team…
Top Democratic-Run Firms Won’t Discuss Their Work for No Labels
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Is No Labels becoming radioactive within the Democratic establishment? Two prominent Washington, DC-based consulting firms that are run by Democrats and have done significant work in recent years for the self-professed centrist outfit will now not…
No Labels Exposed: Here’s a List of Donors Funding Its Effort To Disrupt the 2024 Race
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.No Labels, the political outfit preparing to run a “unity” ticket in 2024 that Democratic strategists and Never-Trump Republican operatives fear will siphon votes from President Joe Biden, is what’s known as a dark-money group. Unlike…
Kevin McCarthy Is Fundraising Off Trump’s Indictment Lies
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.There is no better representative of the moral slide of the Republican Party in the Trump years than House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. This congressman from California, as the ranking House Republican, excoriated Donald Trump after the January…
No Labels Is Helping a Firm that Raises Money for Right-Wing Extremists
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.No Labels is a political outfit that hails political centrism, calls for bipartisanship, and is considering running an independent ticket in the 2024 presidential election that could end up spoiling President Joe Biden’s reelection bid. On…