Deception & Misdirection

Deception & Misdirection
Mystery Donor Revealed: Mark Zuckerberg Backed Radical DA Candidates
In 2018, just outside Portland, Oregon, longtime Washington County District Attorney Bob Hermann announced his retirement. To those in the know, it was obvious that Kevin Barton, a moderate independent…
by Parker Thayer on August 5, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax Rolls On at The Guardian and the Lincoln Project
The debunked Trump-Russia election collusion claims clawed their way back into the news on July 15. A trio of conspiracy theorists led by Luke Harding of The Guardian wrote that…
by Ken Braun on August 4, 2021

Deception & Misdirection, Media Hits
Mark Zuckerberg Cash Appears to Have Leaked into Prosecutor Races
Cash from Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to have leaked into prosecutor races as part of his foundation's larger mission to reform the criminal justice system, a review of tax…
by Parker Thayer on August 3, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Texas Election Reforms Don’t Go Far Enough to Protect Against Fraud
While some Texas legislators decided to run away to Washington, D.C., rather than vote on election integrity legislation, Lone Star State Republicans are dedicated to making it easier to vote and harder…
by Victoria Ydens on August 2, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Going Postal: How the Left Will Use Vote by Mail to Federalize Elections
Vote by mail is the future of American democracy, with all the accompanying opportunities for ballot harvesting, mail fraud, and deceit—at least if the left has its way. This was…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 9, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Left-Wing Groups Flooded Georgia with ‘Dark Money’ and Mail-In Ballots in 2020
If there’s something the left has plenty of, it’s cash. When you add that largesse to liberals’ newfound love of mail-in voting — something even Barack Obama frowned upon as…
by Sarah Lee, Hayden Ludwig on July 8, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Democratic Donors’ Disinformation Ops—UPDATED
The Left really misses the good old days, when all major news outlets in print, radio, and TV could be counted on to spout the approved narratives. Nowadays, many Americans…
by Scott Walter on June 22, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
States Banning “Zuck Bucks”—UPDATED
Private financing of government election offices under the guise of COVID-19 relief skewed voter turnout in the 2020 election and may have tipped the presidential election to Joe Biden. As…
by Sarah Lee, Hayden Ludwig on June 22, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Keeping a Finger on Foreign Funding in Academia
An encouraging development on Capitol Hill came Thursday when two House Republicans wrote a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona asking for a status update on Section 117 of…
by Sarah Lee on June 18, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Arabella’s “Dark Money” Activists Trying to Tilt 2021 Redistricting
With the 2020 Census behind us the country looks to the looming battle over the future of its congressional and state legislative districts for the next decade. But “dark money”…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 16, 2021