Deception & Misdirection

Deception & Misdirection
Ocasio-Cortez, Justice Democrats, and the Art of the Scam PAC
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional floor speech against “dark money” may be one of the most watched political videos on Twitter, but now she’s now facing allegations…
by Patrick Esch on March 25, 2019

Deception & Misdirection
Immigrant Advocates Push Fake Humanitarianism at the Border
Critics of sound immigration policy often rely on a single rhetorical trope to resist the Trump Administration’s efforts to secure the U.S. border with Mexico: America doesn’t need a border…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 20, 2019

Deception & Misdirection
Identity Politics Is Democrats’ Weapon of Mass Distraction in Redistricting Campaign
Democrats and their high-powered lawyers are quietly moving special interest groups around a judicial chess board, hoping to position judges and politicians so that they will be in power to…
by Christine Ravold on March 6, 2019

Deception & Misdirection
Who Holds the Campaign for Accountability Accountable?
Right-leaning groups have good reasons to criticize Google. The tech company has a well-established reputation for favoring left-leaning causes and for punishing intellectual conservatives. For a company whose slogan…
by Harry Kazenoff on March 4, 2019

Deception & Misdirection
The Left’s Street Boss: Sharpton’s Shady Past
In 1980, according to a 1988 Washington Post report, the Rev. Al Sharpton presented himself as the majority stakeholder in a trash hauling company seeking a minority “set-aside” contract from…
by Ken Braun on February 27, 2019

Deception & Misdirection
The Left’s Street Boss: Dealer Turned Informant?
Sometime in the early 1980s another mysterious twist of entrepreneurial fate placed Sharpton in a room discussing whether or not he would be purchasing cocaine for an unnamed acquaintance. A…
by Ken Braun on February 27, 2019

Deception & Misdirection
The Left’s Street Boss: The “Sharpton Primaries”
Whatever his associations may or may not have been with shady businesses, the National Action Network (NAN) is Sharpton’s supposedly legitimate enterprise. It’s the civil rights organization that commanded respect…
by Ken Braun on February 27, 2019

Deception & Misdirection
Setting the Record Straight on AIPAC and Omar’s Anti-Semitism
U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has stirred controversy with two tweets claiming the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and pro-Israel money are the reason why the vast majority…
by Harry Kazenoff on February 13, 2019

Deception & Misdirection
Creative Majority’s Creative Deception
In November 2018, the Capital Research Center’s (CRC) Hayden Ludwig reported on a major digital consultancy firm, Revolution Messaging, and its questionable financial relationship with Creative Majority…
by Harry Kazenoff on January 25, 2019

Deception & Misdirection
Creative Majority’s Creative Compliance Evasion
Today, if you go to the Rhode Island Avenue address you will not find any of Goodstein’s organizations, though they were there according to other employees in the building. The…
by Harry Kazenoff on January 25, 2019