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A Case Study In Wingnut Welfare: Think Freely Media
In 2012, “Think Freely Media” received over $600,000, mostly from the Koch brothers’s Donors Trust. According to the organization’s IRS 990s, $420,000 of that money was spent on a company called Virion Strategies. But we have found no sign of any work product: the organization’s Twitter account has no followers and no tweets. There is no […]
Will The IRS Snipe Hunt Finally Unravel After CPAC?
In Washington, DC, last week, Darrell Issa cut off Elijah Cumming’s microphone as his colleague decried what is clearly a political snipe hunt. “I am tired of this,” Cummings continued, as Issa signaled to have his microphone cut off. “You cannot just have a one-sided investigation. There is absolutely something wrong with that, and it is absolutely […]
Will Anticipated Stone Indictment Also Ensnare Stranahan?
In news being eclipsed by the media focus on the #MAGABomber, we note that Mother Jones has published text messages showing Roger Stone actively sought a presidential pardon for Wikileaker Julian Assange. “I am working with others to get JA a blanket pardon,” Stone wrote, in a January 6 exchange of text messages obtained by Mother […]
Here Are Six Ways The Clinton Machine Can Destroy Trump
There are two kinds of political art, qualitative and quantitative. That’s a fancy way of saying that you can sit around coming up with the best message to inspire the most raucous applause, or you can pound pavement to get actual voters to actually vote. These two kinds of political art are not necessarily opposed; indeed, they […]
How Hillary Clinton Can Smash Our Low Expectations
This is the second post in what may be a three-part series on Democrats in the 2016 elections. The first post dealt with how progressives react to disappointment. This is not an endorsement of Hillary Clinton. In presuming her eventual victory for the purposes of this article, I am not trying to persuade anyone to vote for […]
Is Ben Carson Just Profiteering In Conservative Politics?
Token brain surgeon Ben Carson is the current front-runner in the GOP nomination race, but Jonathan Chait wonders if his campaign isn’t just an elaborate self-promotion. Carson is doing a lot of things that seem puzzling for a presidential campaign, but quite logical for a brand-building exercise. He is taking weeks off the campaign trail to […]
Todd Kincannon’s Weird Lawsuit Is Not About Free Speech
Former South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Todd Kincannon is perhaps the world’s most famous Twitter troglodyte. His venom towards women, minorities, and evolved human beings is the stuff of legend, and his past trolling has resulted in not one, but two Twitter accounts being banned — as well as a lecherous reputation. Now on his third Twitter account, […]
Jenny Beth Martin’s Tea Party Patriots No Longer Grassroots
Tea Party Patriots may still be an important national tea party organization, but its connections to grassroots conservative organizing appear to be largely severed. The Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) has verified that TPP has lost 90% of its local affiliates since Jenny Beth Martin won control of the group from multilevel-marketing billionaire Mark Meckler: Today, the […]
One Dollar, One Vote
David Weigel, who attended the Republican Leadership Conference last week, reports that the conservative movement is already getting behind the oligarchs as they push back against efforts to reverse the effects of Citizens United and McCutcheon v FEC. As was entirely expected, they are framing the issue as an attack on everyone’s free speech by defining money as speech in the […]
Is The Tea Party Over?
Did yesterday’s abysmal turnout for the American Spring ‘uprising’ leave the real tea party — the dissonant hate group that was always hiding under a veneer of main street acceptability — fatally exposed as an unpopular fringe element? We think so. Organizers failed to draw more than a very few hundred supporters of the tens of millions they had […]