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Disinfo Dispatch: The Right’s Voter Registration Hypocrisy, Trump Sells Insider Access to His Posts, and DOJ Goes Soft on Corporate Crime
Washington, D.C. — Capital Research Center is bankrolled by the same dark-money network funding the voter turnout machine it claims to be exposing. Trump’s media company is charging Wall Street for early access to his market-moving posts. And the Justice Department is...
Jim Jordan Spent Years Crying “Weaponization.” Now He’s Doing It to Protect His Corrupt Leader: Donald Trump
Washington, D.C. — For years, Jim Jordan built his political identity around the claim that the Justice Department had been “weaponized” against Donald Trump, launching a special subcommittee devoted to the cause. Now that former Special Counsel Jack Smith is...
The Receipt: What Capital Research Center Got Wrong Last Week
Another week, another reminder that Capital Research Center is not a serious research organization. It’s a partisan hit operation, and their output last week proved it again. As always, they wrote partisan conclusions first, and then went looking for facts to back...
Disinfo Dispatch: Trump Implements Loyalty Test for Federal Grants, DOJ Subpoenas Law Firms, and the Trump Family Cashes In on the Pentagon
Washington, D.C. — Donald Trump’s OMB has proposed rewriting the rules for $1.2 trillion in annual federal grants to serve Trump’s personal priorities. The Justice Department is now subpoenaing the very law firms that already surrendered to Trump’s demands. And a...
ICYMI: South Korean Company Paid Trump $2 Million Amid Trade Investigation
Washington Post: South Korean company paid Trump $2 million amid trade investigation President Donald Trump’s holding company took a $2 million payment last year from a top investor in a South Korean aluminum firm as the company was fighting a trade case before...
The Receipt: What Capital Research Center Got Wrong Last Week
Capital Research Center published three pieces last week, all doing what CRC does best: run damage control for the Right, bury inconvenient truths that disprove their spin, twist whatever's left until it fits their narrative, and call it "research."In “Ranked choice...
ICYMI: Trump’s Sons Invest Heavily in Defense Tech as Father’s Administration Pours Money In
Washington Post: Trump’s sons invest heavily in defense tech as father’s administration pours money in President Donald Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have amassed a portfolio of defense technology start-ups that are benefiting from new Pentagon...
Disinfo Dispatch: ICE is Hunting Down Critics, Trump Pockets $1 Billion While His Supporters Lose Everything, and Freedom 250 Accused of Wire Fraud
Washington, D.C. — The Trump administration is using federal power to punish critics and enrich itself, sometimes in the same week. ICE has repurposed its own internal-affairs office to track down Americans who criticize the agency online. The president made more than...
Disinfo Dispatch: Bessent Threatens Nonprofits With Prosecution, CRC Cheers Him On, and DOJ Turns Gang and Terrorism Prosecutors Loose on Protesters
Washington, D.C. — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is threatening to prosecute nonprofit leaders and seize their organizations’ assets. The right-wing dark money outfit Capital Research Center is cheering him on. And the Justice Department has quietly assigned...
ICYMI: The Trump Administration Is Siding With Hate Groups
The New Republic: The Trump Administration Is Siding With Hate Groups For more than a decade, right-wing Christian groups have taken issue with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the nonprofit organization founded more than 50 years ago that researches and challenges...
ICYMI: Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.
The New York Times: Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. When Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Kazakhstan’s president at the St. Regis Hotel last September in New York, President Trump jumped in by phone as the men sealed a deal...
Disinfo Dispatch: The DOJ Took Orders From the Groups SPLC Exposed, Philanthropic Leaders Call Out Trump’s War on Nonprofits, and a New IRS Weaponization Will Gut Charitable Work
Washington, D.C. — New court filings reveal the Trump Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation based on a political wish list from extreme conservative groups. A new op-ed exposes the administration’s war on nonprofits, and how it’s working exactly as...
Disinfo Dispatch: Trump’s DOJ Targets Newsom, His Wife, and Her Nonprofits with BS Investigations; The SPLC Prosecution Exposed; Nonprofits Fight Back Against Trump Weaponization
Washington, D.C. — This week, Donald Trump’s Justice Department opened a new front in its war on political opponents, targeting California Governor Gavin Newsom, his wife, and her nonprofits. A civil rights leader called out the Southern Poverty Law Center prosecution...
The “Weaponization” Crowd Has Nothing to Say About Donald Trump’s DOJ and Its Bogus Investigation of Gavin Newsom
Washington, D.C. — California Governor Gavin Newsom revealed today that Donald Trump’s Justice Department is investigating him and his wife, with federal agents knocking on the doors of family friends and former employees, all in search of a nonexistent crime. Newsom...
Disinfo Dispatch: Trump’s Epstein Coverup; Jordan’s SPLC Sham Hearing; Patel and Blanche’s Weaponized DOJ; OMB’s Political Shakedown of Nonprofits
Washington, D.C. — This week, new reporting reveals Trump’s team spent months in secret Situation Room meetings trying to bury his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill held another sham hearing to prop up a prosecution that is falling apart in...
FACT SHEET: The Case Against the SPLC Is Falling Apart. So Jim Jordan Held Another Sham Hearing.
Jim Jordan’s SPLC Hearing Today Made the Same Bogus Case as DOJ’s Ridiculous Charges and Amounted to a De Facto Defense of the KKK and other White Nationalist Groups Today, Jim Jordan's House Judiciary Committee held a second sham hearing targeting the Southern...
ICYMI: Trump’s Vendetta Fuels Baseless Charges Against Southern Poverty Law Center
The Hill: Trump’s vendetta fuels baseless charges against Southern Poverty Law Center The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has fought racism and worked with law enforcement and others to bring violent white supremacists to justice since 1973, is drawing...
ICYMI: Trump’s Cronies Weaponized His DOJ Based on “Grand Conspiracy” Theory
New York Times: How the Drive to Find a Conspiracy Against Trump Rocked the Justice Dept. It was an investigation long sought by Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, and it was announced not in court papers, but through a haze of cigar smoke on Joe Rogan’s podcast in...
FACT SHEET: House Republicans Deepen Trump’s Revenge Campaign Against Political Enemies With Yet Another Stunt Hearing On the SPLC Featuring Hyperpartisan, Anti-LGBT+ Witnesses
Tomorrow, House Republicans in the Judiciary Committee are holding yet another hearing attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after the Trump DOJ indicted the group as part of Trump’s vindictive weaponization campaign. This time, it appears House Judiciary...
Disinfo Dispatch: Trump’s DOJ Escalates Its Campaign Against the SPLC; OMB Moves to Weaponize Federal Grants; the Manhattan Institute Comes for Your Right to Protest
Washington, D.C. — Trump’s Justice Department is doubling down on its prosecution of one of America’s most storied civil rights organizations, the White House is moving to turn the federal grants process into a political loyalty test, and a right-wing think tank that...
Disinfo Dispatch: Trump’s DOJ Prosecutes the SPLC; Treasury Chokes Off Nonprofit Infrastructure; Funder Commits Millions to Democracy
Washington, D.C. — The Trump Justice Department filed criminal charges against a civil rights organization — for the same informant work it once shared directly with the FBI. The Treasury Department moved to strangle the infrastructure nonprofits depend on to launch....
ICYMI: White House Secured $620 Million Deal for Trump Jr. Company
ProPublica: The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr. When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a small North Carolina startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to...
ICYMI: Southern Poverty Law Center Accuses Justice Department of Vindictive Prosecution
New York Times: Southern Poverty Law Center Accuses Justice Dept. of Vindictive Prosecution Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center asked a federal judge on Tuesday to throw out charges accusing it of defrauding its donors, saying that the case was part of a...
Disinfo Dispatch: Republicans Stage Another Sham Hearing Against the SPLC; Capital Research Center Takes Aim at Environmental Nonprofits; Comer and Jordan Go AWOL on Trump Corruption
Washington, D.C. — House Republicans held a hearing last week to attack one of the country’s oldest civil rights organizations, the right’s favorite disinformation shop testified before Congress to smear environmental nonprofits, and the House’s self-proclaimed...
STATEMENT: Republicans Use Sham SPLC Hearing to Legitimize Hate Groups and Shield Extremists from Scrutiny
Washington, D.C. — The House Judiciary Committee today held a hearing titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate,” the latest installment in House Republicans’ ongoing campaign to attack a legacy civil rights organization and strike fear into any...
FACT SHEET: Debunking Trump and Republicans’ Bogus Indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Jim Jordan’s SPLC Hearing Today Will Make the Same Bogus Case as DOJ’s Ridiculous Charges and Will Amount to a Defense of the KKK and other White Nationalist Groups Last month, Trump’s DOJ charged the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with fraud and misuse of funds,...
FACT SHEET: House Republicans Deepen Trump’s Revenge Campaign Against Political Enemies With Stunt Hearing On the SPLC Featuring Hyperpartisan Witnesses
Tomorrow, House Republicans in the Judiciary Committee are holding a hearing attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after the Trump DOJ indicted the group as part of Trump’s vindictive weaponization campaign. The witnesses for the Majority at the hearing...
ICYMI: Anti-LGBTQ+ Activist to Testify Before Congress Against Southern Poverty Law Center
The Advocate: Anti-LGBTQ+ activist to testify before Congress against Southern Poverty Law Center As U.S. House Republicans scrutinize one of the nation’s most prominent anti-hate groups, they will bring in a right-wing commentator who spent years villainizing LGBTQ+...
ICYMI: Anti-LGBTQ Commentator Tyler O’Neil to Testify in Southern Poverty Law Center Probe
Washington Blade: Anti-LGBTQ commentator Tyler O’Neil to testify in Southern Poverty Law Center probe The man behind some of the strongest push against the Southern Poverty Law Center, who has an extensive anti-LGBTQ history, is being asked to speak before the House...
Why Are Donald Trump, Jim Jordan, and Republicans Defending the KKK and Violent White Nationalist Groups?
BACKGROUND: The Groups SPLC Has Investigated and Exposed, Including Trump’s Own Allies Republicans attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), including Rep. Jim Jordan, whose Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing to do just that this week, must answer for...
James Comer and Jim Jordan: What the Actual F—k Do You Have to Say About This?!
James Comer and Jim Jordan built careers on the premise that oversight exists to keep power in check. They launched endless investigations, issued countless subpoenas, and were on Fox News every night to lecture America about supposed corruption, conflicts of...
Disinfo Dispatch: Comer Escalates Influencer Probe, House Republicans Schedule SPLC Hearing, and Capital Research Center Takes Aim at the Census
Washington, D.C. — James Comer’s partisan targeting operation is expanding on two fronts this week: the House Oversight Committee chairman has issued a subpoena to the Sixteen Thirty Fund over its ties to a progressive influencer program, and his Republican colleagues...
While Eric Trump Tags Along to Beijing, James Comer Looks the Other Way
Washington, D.C. — As President Trump touched down in Beijing this week for a state visit, his son Eric was right by his side, not as a member of the administration, but as the man who runs the Trump family business. At the same time, a company with direct ties to the...
ICYMI: Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Prosecute the People Who Destroyed the KKK
Meidas Touch News: Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Prosecute the People Who Destroyed the KKK Donald Trump’s Justice Department is criminally prosecuting the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legacy civil rights organization that bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan,...
The Receipt: Capital Research Center Reaches For Conspiracy Theories To Explain Citizens Doing Their Patriotic Duty
The Capital Research Center, a partisan targeting operation that personally briefs senior White House officials on progressive nonprofits in an effort to weaponize disinformation against their perceived enemies, is now setting its sights on the 2030 census. Its newest...
Disinfo Dispatch: Trump’s Charlottesville Lie Gets Fact-Checked. The Administration Arraigns the SPLC. Fidelity, Vanguard, and Schwab Block Donations.
Washington, D.C. — The Trump administration’s case against the Southern Poverty Law Center is falling apart in real time, even as the White House doubles down on a conspiracy theory about Charlottesville that the actual white nationalists who organized Unite the Right...
The Trump Administration Arraigns the Organization That Bankrupted the KKK
Washington, D.C. — Today, as part of the Trump administration’s revenge and retribution tour, the Southern Poverty Law Center was arraigned in Montgomery federal court. The 55-year-old civil rights organization famously bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan, forced the...
Fidelity, Vanguard, and Schwab Have Become Accomplices in the Trump Administration’s Attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center
Washington, D.C. — Congressional Integrity Project is standing with the coalition of major philanthropic networks, foundations, and individual donors calling on Fidelity Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, and Charles Schwab’s DAFgiving360 to reverse their decision to...
Disinfo Dispatch: DOJ Knew About SPLC’s Informants and Still Indicted Them. The IRS Targets Civil Society. The Right Attacks the Ford Foundation for Defending Democracy.
Washington, D.C. — The Trump Justice Department’s fraud case against the Southern Poverty Law Center is unraveling, with new court filings showing the FBI knew about and benefited from the very informant program it is now prosecuting as a crime. Meanwhile, the Trump...
ICYMI: DOJ Rushed Indictment of SPLC, According to Whistleblower Reports
MS NOW: DOJ rushed indictment of SPLC, according to whistleblower reports A senior Trump administration Justice Department official ordered federal prosecutors in Alabama to “rush through” a controversial indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center despite concerns...
ICYMI: FBI Knew Southern Poverty Law Center Informants Helped Bring Down Extremists
Key Points: "On Tuesday, however, the law center pushed back firmly against the accusation that it sought to promote, not dismantle, far-right groups, asserting in court papers that information gleaned from its informants was shared at least three times with law...
FACT CHECK: New Capital Research Center Op-Ed Smears Southern Poverty Law Center In Lock-Step With Trump Administration
Last week, the president of the dark-money slop machine that is the Capital Research Center (CRC), Scott Walter, published an op-ed in the right-wing Daily Wire — continuing the CRC’s campaign against the Southern Poverty Law Center as Donald Trump weaponizes his...
Disinfo Dispatch: Trump’s DOJ Indicts the Southern Poverty Law Center. His IRS Is Going After the Rest.
Washington, D.C. — The Trump Justice Department is criminally prosecuting the Southern Poverty Law Center, the 55-year-old civil rights organization that dismantled the Ku Klux Klan in federal court, over its use of paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist...
Trump’s IRS Moves to Target Nonprofits and Civil Society Organizations
Washington, D.C. — The Trump Treasury Department announced Thursday that the IRS plans to revise Form 990, the primary tax filing for nonprofits, to impose sweeping new scrutiny on civil society organizations, with particular focus on fiscal sponsorship arrangements...
FACT CHECK: Capital Research Center Smears Southern Poverty Law Center As Trump Administration Targets Political Opponents
While Donald Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a 55-year-old legacy civil rights organization, the dark-money slop machine that is the Capital Research Center is busy doing what it does best: supplying Trump...
What They’re Saying: Criticism Mounts for Trump’s SPLC Indictment, An Attack on All of Civil Society
Washington, D.C. — The condemnation has been swift and unsparing. On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s Justice Department announced a bogus indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and civil rights leaders, legal scholars, elected officials, and advocacy...
55 Years On The Front Lines For Civil Rights: The Southern Poverty Law Center
This Is the Organization the Trump Administration Is Treating As a Criminal Enterprise Trump’s DOJ is preparing to criminally prosecute the Southern Poverty Law Center, targeting the organization over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist...
What They’re Saying: Experts Call Out Trump’s SPLC Indictment, Naked Weaponization of Federal Power
Washington, D.C. — On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s Justice Department announced an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, a 55-year-old legacy civil rights organization, over its decades-long practice of using paid informants to infiltrate white...
Trump’s DOJ Goes After a 55-Year-Old Civil Rights Organization, and the Right-Wing Attack Machine That Helped Put It in the Crosshairs Is Celebrating
Washington, D.C. — The Southern Poverty Law Center announced today that Trump’s Justice Department is preparing to criminally prosecute the organization over its past use of paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC used...
ICYMI: Oversight Republicans Are Trying to Quash the Epstein Investigation
Politico: This is how Democrats say Oversight Republicans are trying to quash the Epstein investigation Members of both parties have for months been hijacking House Oversight Committee business to call votes on subpoenas for high-profile figures in the Jeffrey Epstein...
Disinfo Dispatch: Vance’s Billionaire Bagmen, DOJ’s Abortion Double Standard, and the War on Women’s Networks
Washington, D.C. — JD Vance is locking up ultra-wealthy donors for a 2028 run. The Trump DOJ fired prosecutors for working with abortion-rights groups, then immediately rolled out the welcome mat for anti-abortion lobbyists. And the Trump administration’s DEI...
CRACKING DOWN ON DISSENT: FBI and DHS Holding Closed Hearing Over Budget Request For New Pre-Crime Unit Trampling on First Amendment Rights & Investigating Civil Society
The FBI and DHS are holding a closed-door hearing with their allies in Congress on a new “pre-crime” unit buried in Donald Trump’s FY2027 budget that targets anyone who disagrees with him. The administration would have you believe it’s responding to real threats, but...
ICYMI: Eric Trump to Join His Dad’s State Visit to China
Reuters: Trump’s son Eric to join father's state visit to China U.S. President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump and his wife, Lara, will accompany the president on his trip next month to China, a spokeswoman for the family organization told Reuters on Tuesday. Two...
While Comer Targets the Left, Leonard Leo, America’s Biggest Dark Money Kingpin, is Hiding in Plain Sight
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...
NEW: Trump Administration Deploying Counterterrorism Resources Against Political Opponents
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...
Disinfo Dispatch: Capital Research Center’s Conspiracy Theory Problem and Trump’s FBI “Pre-Crime Center”
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...
Trump’s FBI Built a Pre-Crime Center. The Targets Are People Who Disagree With Him.
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...
The Receipt: Capital Research Center Spent Last Week Building a Target List for the Administration’s War on Conservation
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...
Disinfo Dispatch: Comer Targets Nonprofits While Ignoring Bondi’s Corruption, Capital Research Center’s Transparency Hypocrisy, and a Court Win for Civil Society
Washington, D.C. — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has no problem manufacturing outrage about the legitimate work of nonprofits and civil society, fed by dark-money operatives at the Capital Research Center. But when it comes to the most corrupt...
The Receipt: CRC Says Philanthropy Is Too Political. CRC Hand-Delivers Hit Lists to the White House.
Another week, another reminder that the Capital Research Center is not a serious research organization. It's a partisan hit operation — and this week, it published the quiet part out loud. On Sunday, CRC re-published an essay by Steven F. Hayward arguing that...
Disinfo Dispatch: Comer Targets Progressive Creators While Ignoring Kremlin Cash, Crypto Scams, and the Nonprofit Sector Fights Back
Washington, D.C. — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is using his committee’s power to investigate a progressive influencer program over alleged campaign finance concerns, even as documented evidence of foreign money flowing to MAGA media figures and a...
New Reporting Exposes Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal — Where Is James Comer’s Investigation?
Washington, D.C. — New reporting from The Bulwark has revealed that convicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his business partner orchestrated a scheme to secretly pay conservative media figures — including writers at the Daily Caller, Townhall, RedState, and...
James Comer’s Influencer Witch Hunt Ignores $10 Million In Kremlin Cash Paid to MAGA Personalities
Washington, D.C. — New reporting has revealed that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is launching an investigation into a progressive influencer program over alleged campaign finance concerns. At the same time, he’s giving a pass to right-wing media...
Trump Is Weaponizing the FBI, IRS, and Justice Department Against Nonprofits While Letting Right-Wing Extremists Walk
Two New Reports Expose a Two-Track System: Terrorize Civil Society, Protect Right-Wing Allies WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday CBS News revealed that the Trump administration has stood up a joint FBI-IRS task force to investigate nonprofits for alleged domestic terrorism...
STATEMENT: Why Was Binance CEO Hobnobbing with Trump Family at Mar-a-Lago While Under Active DOJ Investigation for Helping Iran Evade Sanctions?
Washington, D.C. — Today, new reporting revealed that the Justice Department is actively investigating Iran’s use of the crypto trading platform Binance to evade U.S. sanctions. Among other things, the violations include more than $1 billion being funneled to...
FACT CHECK: Trump’s IRS Chief Falsely Claimed Administration Hasn’t Weaponized Agency to Pursue Political Opponents During Hearing
Trump Administration Has Been Trying to Use the IRS to Pursue Political Opponents For Years WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, in a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL) asked Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer...
House Republicans Sham Hearing on Nonprofits is a Partisan Distraction from Trump’s Foreign Corruption Scandals
GOP Witnesses are Partisan Political Operatives Masquerading as Legitimate Researchers WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republicans are holding a hearing on “foreign influence in non-profits” that is nothing more than a distraction from the Trump administration’s brazen...
FACT CHECK: Right-Wing Claims About Minneapolis Protests Are False
Minnesotans and local civil society groups demonstrate peacefully while far-right conspiracies attempt to shift focus from Trump administration actions WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, in a coordinated effort to discredit civil society organizations in Minneapolis and...
Right-Wing Roundup: Right-Wing Organizations Provide Political Air Cover as DOJ Brings Investigations Against Peaceful Protestors, Civil Society Groups, and Anyone They Don’t Like
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A familiar ecosystem of amateur detectives, conservative operatives and right-wing media churned out manufactured allegations and smears against peaceful protests against ICE’s brutality in Minnesota that congressional Republicans and administration...
FACT CHECK: Trump Administration, Allies Smear Victims to Justify Minneapolis Killings
Right-Wing Groups Rush to Defend Federal Killings in Minneapolis, Blame Victims and Protesters WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the aftermath of federal agents killing two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, the right-wing echo chamber, including groups like the Capital Research...
MEMO: Right Wing Media Attacks on Immigrant Rights Organizations Are Manufacturing Consent for Aggressive Immigrant Enforcement
TO: Interested Parties FROM: Congressional Integrity Project DATE: January 26, 2026 SUBJECT: Right Wing Media Attacks on Immigrant Rights Organizations Are Manufacturing Consent for Aggressive Immigrant Enforcement Overview The unjustified and brutal killing of Alex...
Breaking: Capital Research Center Backpedals On “Absurdly Exaggerated Report” The Trump Administration Used to Target Open Society Foundations
Rolling Stone: “The report [...] was riddled with errors and exaggerations.” WASHINGTON, D.C. — New reporting from Rolling Stone has exposed Capital Research Center for haphazardly producing an “absurdly exaggerated” report on George Soros’ Open Society Foundations...
STATEMENT: Jim Jordan’s Latest Sham Investigation Targeting Nonprofits Proves He’s All Politics, No Substance
Jordan and Chip Roy Target Alliance for Global Justice and Open Society Foundations in Latest Partisan Stunt WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressmen Jim Jordan and Chip Roy sent letters to the leaders of the Alliance for Global Justice and the Open Society Foundations...
Capital Research Center Appears To Do Damage Control After Being Caught Red-Handed Aiding and Abetting Trump’s War on Nonprofits
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a new op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Capital Research Center President Scott Walter attempts to downplay his organization’s long-standing efforts to empower Donald Trump’s harassment of non-profits and his political opponents. But Pandora’s...
STATEMENT: Trump Prioritizes Baseless War On Progressive Groups Over Helping Families Struggling With Soaring Costs
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Wall Street Journal revealed in new reporting last night that the Trump administration is planning to overhaul IRS rules “to enable pursuit of left-leaning groups.” This comes as the federal government shutdown enters its third week and as many...
STATEMENT: Capital Research Center Misleads the Public While Feigning Outrage Over DOJ Investigation It Helped Fuel
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The New York Times revealed in new reporting today that the Trump Justice Department relied on Capital Research Center (CRC) research to justify an unprecedented investigation into the Open Society Foundation. CRC, which markets itself as an...
Congressional Integrity Project Demands Mike Johnson Bring Epstein Discharge Petition to the Floor After DOJ Refuses to Transparently Release the Files
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following FBI Director Kash Patel’s hearings on Capitol Hill in which he claimed he had no authority to release the Epstein files—despite federal judges saying otherwise—the Congressional Integrity Project is calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to stand...
Rep. Chip Roy’s Partisan Committee Proposal Divides America When Leadership and Unity Are Needed Most
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk has unleashed partisan and divisive responses from Republican leaders that risk deepening the very divisions fueling political violence. Rep. Chip Roy’s letter calling for a new select committee to...
Congressional Republicans Hold Hearings on Antisemitism in Institutions While Ignoring Extremism in Their Own Ranks
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Congressional Republicans are conducting two hearings focused on antisemitism, with the House Committee on Education and Workforce examining the issue in unions yesterday and in schools today. However, rather than addressing the...
Congressional Integrity Project Calls on Comer to Investigate Trump’s Changing Story on Epstein Relationship, Reiterates Demand for Trump to Testify
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following explosive reporting by The Wall Street Journal revealing Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book contains what appears to be Donald Trump’s signature, the Congressional Integrity Project is calling on House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer...
ICYMI: After Trump Pardoned Violent January 6 Insurrectionists, House Forms New Subcommittee to Further Whitewash History
The Congressional Integrity Project Challenges Republicans to Focus Investigation on the Activities of the Violent Insurrectionists Pardoned by Trump WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an attempt to rewrite the history of January 6th – the worst domestic attack on our Capitol and...
House Republicans Pursue Debunked ActBlue Claims While Refusing to Investigate WinRed’s Documented Campaign Finance Violations
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republicans are once again resurrecting their disingenuous ActBlue investigation – deemed “not serious” by campaign finance experts – while ignoring documented evidence that the Republican fundraising platform WinRed facilitated thousands of...
House GOP Stage Sham Hearing on European Free Speech While Trump Launches Authoritarian Crackdown at Home
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republicans continue their relentless pattern of staging diversionary hearings while ignoring the attacks on the First Amendment happening right under their noses. Yesterday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on free speech in European...
Why Aren’t Congressional Republicans as Courageous as Epstein Abuse Survivors?
If Congressional Republicans Are Serious About Accountability, They Must Demand That Donald Trump Testify About His Ties to Jeffrey Epstein WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse will gather on Capitol Hill to demand full transparency and...
Four Questions Congressional Republicans Can’t Dodge After Wasting August
While Americans struggled this summer with rising costs and shrinking access to health care under Donald Trump’s agenda, House Republicans spent August continuing sham investigations, targeting nonprofits, and enabling Trump’s authoritarian power grabs. As they return...
STATEMENT: Republicans’ War on Civil Society Puts Lifesaving Disaster Relief at Risk
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As hurricane season intensifies, Republicans’ war on nonprofits is showing its real-life consequences. Reporting this week illustrates that Trump’s DHS is barring aid groups—including the Salvation Army and the Red Cross—from providing food,...
STATEMENT: Trump Claims Presidential Authority to “Do Anything” – Will Rep. Comer Even Bother To Notice?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In remarks yesterday regarding his plan to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, Donald Trump made an extraordinary claim about presidential power, stating: “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.”...
STATEMENT: Trump’s Targeting of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook Demands Congressional Oversight
Will Chairman Comer Investigate Trump’s Assault on the Fed’s Independence or Continue Providing Cover? WASHINGTON, D.C. — In yet another authoritarian power grab, Donald Trump attempted to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook—a brazen assault on central bank...
Rep. Comer Backs Troops in D.C. — What Happens if Louisville is Next?
Louisville Has a Higher Murder Rate Than D.C. — Is Comer Ready to Send in the Troops? WASHINGTON, D.C. — As checkpoints multiply and armed National Guard patrol D.C., House Oversight Chairman James Comer’s support for deploying troops to American cities raises urgent...
STATEMENT: Lawless Trump Administration Weaponizes FBI Against Political Critics
Will Chairman Comer Finally Investigate or Continue Providing Cover? WASHINGTON, D.C. — In his latest abuse of power, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice today sent FBI agents to raid the home of former National Security Advisor John Bolton, a sharp critic of the...
GOP Lawmakers Silent as their State Governors Send Troops to D.C. to Enable Trump’s Authoritarian Power Grab
Lawmakers like Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan Support his own State’s National Guard Being Deployed in Nation’s Capital Instead of Fighting for His Constituents WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six Republican governors are now actively participating in Donald Trump’s authoritarian takeover...
Week in Review: Comer, Republicans Cheer on Trump’s Authoritarian Power Grabs, Ignoring Oversight Responsibilities and Covering for Trump’s Corruption
Congressional Integrity Project continues exposing GOP’s neglect of constitutional duties to shield Trump WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, the Congressional Integrity Project continued exposing the truth about Republicans’ politically motivated “oversight” — a sham...
STATEMENT: Comer Pushes Blueprint for Military Occupation of U.S. Cities in Alarming Authoritarian Escalation
Oversight Chair says Trump’s National Guard deployment should be an “experiment” for “Democrat-run cities” across America WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is no longer just cheering on Trump’s authoritarian power grabs—he’s trying to...
Trump’s Threat to Steamroll Lawmakers to Extend His Military-Takeover of DC Demands Congressional Oversight
Trump says he’ll declare a national emergency “if I have to” as Congressional Republicans face a choice between enabling authoritarianism or upholding rule of law WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump is threatening to keep National Guard troops in Washington, D.C....
STATEMENT: Democrats Demand Epstein Accountability While Comer and GOP Waste Time Covering for Trump with Sham Investigations
Rep. Ayanna Pressley Demands Congressional Hearing with Survivors of Epstein Abuse, While Congressional Republicans Refuse to Act and Prioritize Protecting Trump Instead WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Democrats on the House Oversight Committee call for a Congressional hearing...
STATEMENT: Comer’s Threats to Haul DC Officials to Congress Are a Dangerous Extension of Trump’s Authoritarian Power Grab
Oversight Committee to haul Mayor Bowser and other local officials before Congress despite violent crime hitting 30-year lows WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, Donald Trump launched an authoritarian takeover of security in our nation’s capital, deploying the National...
STATEMENT: Trump Deployment of National Guard in DC, Seizure of Police Force Demands Immediate Action from House Oversight Committee
Will Rep. Comer Follow the Rule of Law or Let Trump Get Away with Another Authoritarian Power Grab? WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump, in an authoritarian takeover of security in our nation’s capital, is expected to deploy the National Guard against the wishes of the...
ROUNDUP: Congressional Republicans Can’t Escape Trump’s Toxic Agenda
As GOP Lawmakers Face Hostile Town Halls Over Trump Agenda, Republicans Choose Sham Investigations Over Addressing Constituents Needs WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican lawmakers across the country are facing hostility from constituents over their support for Trump’s...
ICYMI: Rep. Mike Flood Gets Earful from Constituents for Pushing Trump’s Toxic Agenda, Health Care Cuts at Hostile Town Hall
Flood, GOP Colleagues More Focused on Chasing Conspiracy Theories and Launching Sham Investigations into Nonprofits Than Addressing Constituents’ Needs WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative Mike Flood’s constituents made their frustrations clear this week at a town hall...
Rep. Comer Continues To Turn a Blind Eye to Shady WinRed Campaign Finance Violations
House GOP Leaders Refuse to Investigate WinRed Violations, Foreign Connections While Launching Baseless Attacks on Democratic Platform ActBlue WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer refuses to examine systematic campaign finance violations by...
Three Questions for Republicans About Their Attacks on Civil Society and Rubber-Stamping Trump’s Disastrous Agenda this August Recess
Congressional Republicans Can Run, But They Can’t Hide from Answering Critical Questions about Their Support for Gutting Critical Services and Launching Sham Investigations WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Congressional Republicans are home in their districts for summer recess,...
ICYMI: Rep. Bryan Steil Greeted with Boos for Supporting Gutting Constituents’ Health Care and Trump’s Disastrous Agenda at Town Hall
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative Bryan Steil hosted a town hall in his district this week that turned hostile when he “struggled to get through answers” about his support for Trump’s draconian immigration policies and votes to gut health care for his constituents....
Three Questions For New House Homeland Security Chairman Garbarino About His Colleagues’ Baseless Investigations Into Civil Society
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Representative Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) takes on his new role as Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, he faces a choice: join his colleagues in their attacks on civil society or stand up for the very organizations that provide...
NEW: Congressional Integrity Project Demands Reps. Comer, Jordan, and Steil Investigate Republican Platform WinRed After GOP Accepted Thousands of Illegal Campaign Contributions
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Congressional Integrity Project has sent a formal letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, and House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil demanding an investigation into Republican...
ICYMI: Former DOJ Official Warns Trump Administration is Systematically Dismantling Civil Society
Vanita Gupta: “All of this suggests a bigger, more fundamental goal: to shut down debate, cut off services to disfavored communities and dismantle civil society. These actions are unconstitutional, un-American and harm us all.” WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a powerful op-ed...
Another Day, Another Sham GOP Hearing on Nonprofits Stacked With Fringe, Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists
WASHINGTON – The House Homeland Security Committee is holding yet another baseless hearing today to attack nonprofits that serve vulnerable communities. Their latest sham spectacle features fringe right-wing activists whose sole purpose is to parrot Trump’s extremist...
STATEMENT: Republicans Parade Far-Right Extremists as ‘Experts’ in Bogus Hearing to Attack Civil Society
Washington, D.C. — The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today as part of its political retribution campaign against civil society, featuring witnesses with extremist views and long records of hypocrisy in their attacks on nonprofit organizations. Ahead...
House GOP Continues Baseless, Partisan Hearings to Distract From Their Unpopular, Dangerous Agenda
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration and Congressional Republicans continue their relentless attacks on America's civil society, staging baseless hearings with far-right witnesses to justify their extreme positions. These sham hearings aren't isolated...
ICYMI: Sen. Murphy Calls Out “Outrageous” And “Baseless” GOP Attacks on NGOs
WASHINGTON, D.C. —U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut called out the House Homeland Security Committee's sham investigation targeting nonprofit organizations today, labeling it a “baseless” attack on civil society. His scathing statement underscored the blatant...
STATEMENT: House Homeland GOP’s Sham NGO Investigation Is a Baseless Distraction from Trump’s Disastrous Agenda
WASHINGTON — The Congressional Integrity Project released the following statement today in response to the House Homeland Security Committee's partisan and baseless investigation into NGO funding: “This investigation is nothing more than a baseless, partisan stunt...
MEMO: Republicans Weaponize Oversight with Sham Hearing Featuring Hate Group Leaders and Conspiracy Theorists While Ignoring Billions in MAGA Grift
TO: Interested Parties FROM: Congressional Integrity Project DATE: June 4, 2025 RE: Republicans Weaponize Oversight with Sham Hearing Featuring Hate Group Leaders and Conspiracy Theorists While Ignoring Billions in MAGA Grift Republicans in Congress are escalating...
The Guardian: Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of assembling ‘rogues’ gallery’ to attack NGOs
Marjorie Taylor Greene accused of assembling ‘rogues’ gallery’ to attack NGOs Congressional Integrity Project calls Wednesday hearing led by Greene ‘political theater’ and exercise in hypocrisy By David Smith // June 4, 2025 The far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor...
STATEMENT: Greene’s Sham Hearing Spectacularly Backfires as Discredited Witnesses Expose Republican Hypocrisy
Washington, D.C. —Today’s House Oversight Committee DOGE Subcommittee hearing attacking nonprofit organizations became a spectacular failure for Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, as her handpicked witnesses, including a hate group leader under DOJ investigation for...