Mercers Say ‘Bye-Bye Bannon!’
That loud sound of water flushing you may have heard this evening was the Mercer Family, the mega-donors who funded Breitbart, Trump and Steve Bannon, pushing the little silver lever…
Bob Mercer Bounces Bannon, Breitbart Under the Bus
With an apologetic air ill-fitting someone who has financed so much misery and mayhem, billionaire financier Robert Mercer bailed out of the Renaissance Technologies hedge fund today. But not before…
Drawing a Straight Line Between Robert Mercer and Nazis
(CORRECTION: When we first published this story Monday morning, we mistakenly posted a photo of troll comedian Sam Hyde, who contributed $5,000 to The Daily Stormer Defense Fund. We have…
BuzzFeed Reveals Bannon’s Alt-Right ‘Killing Machine’
A riveting exposé in BuzzFeed shows how Steven K. Bannon and Milo Yiannopoulos smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist ideas into the American mainstream. According to reporter Joseph Bernstein, “new emails…
The Trouble Started When Blacks Started Voting, Trump Mega-Donor Allegedly Says
Oh, those pesky, racist Negroes! That seems to be the attitude expressed by Trump Mega-Donor Robert Mercer, who — according to Raw Story — says the trouble with America started…
Who You Gonna Believe? These Ads? Or Your Lying Eyes?
Forget the health care debacle. Forget the connections with Russia. Somebody thinks that Donald J. Trump is doing just a FINE job as President of the United States. The difference…
Meet The Data Lords Who Want To Make Ted Cruz President
When Ted Cruz overtook Donald Trump in Iowa polling last December, the Guardian newspaper reported that credit for the senator’s rising popularity belonged to Cambridge Analytica, a data company that had used…
Max Pappas Taking Koch Values To The White House With Ted Cruz
As the vice president for public policy and government affairs at FreedomWorks, Max Pappas was one of the most important people working in the ‘Kochtopus’ during the early, hype-filled days of Tea…
The Breitbart Primary
The biggest political story over the weekend was Sen. Ted Cruz taking a ten-point lead in Iowa polling, a story that had the chattering classes wondering where the seemingly-sudden surge had…