by jmerritt | Sep 22, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
ProPublica: The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C. For the first time in her...
by jmerritt | Sep 21, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) is waging a one-man campaign against basic AI safety protections, and he apparently wants both government and independent experts kept as far away from the process as possible. Schmitt has spent years casting the federal...
by jmerritt | Sep 18, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — A new report from The Independent exposes the Capital Research Center (CRC) as exactly what it is: a pay-to-play outfit for wealthy conservative donors that functions as a mouthpiece for the Trump administration’s crackdown on nonprofits,...
by jmerritt | Sep 18, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Key Point: “It is also a group with a documented record of publishing material that did not hold up — on elections, on tobacco and, repeatedly, on climate science.” The Independent: Many Trump ‘enemies’ are being spoon-fed to him by one conservative think...
by jmerritt | Sep 17, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — A new tracking tool shows Trump has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants in every state in the country, the FBI has quietly built out a national center to police dissent under the guise of counterterrorism, and the top Democrat on House Oversight...
