by jmerritt | Apr 13, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — New reporting has revealed that Leonard Leo, the architect of the right’s most sprawling and secretive dark money operation, has quietly dissolved his flagship nonprofit, the Concord Fund, and replaced it with a constellation of newly named groups...
by jmerritt | Apr 10, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — New reporting reveals that, in the midst of foreign and domestic crises, the Trump administration is redirecting counterterrorism resources away from genuine threats and toward their political opponents, and pressuring international allies to do the...
by jmerritt | Apr 10, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — Capital Research Center, the dark-money slop machine that feeds Oversight Republicans their talking points, is busy laughing along with conspiracy theories about manufactured pandemics on conservative radio. Elsewhere, the Trump administration is...
by jmerritt | Apr 7, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — Buried in Trump’s FY2027 budget is funding for a new FBI-led unit called the NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center, a ten-agency operation dedicated to proactively identifying Americans the government classifies as “domestic terrorists.” In reality, it’s just...
by jmerritt | Apr 6, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Last week, the Capital Research Center’s InfluenceWatch Friday was an all-green sweep. Every single profile was a conservation or climate organization. Organizations that protect land, track emissions, and fund grassroots environmental work were treated as threats to...
