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Organization Trends
Fake Charities Are Spending Millions to Help Democrats Win Elections
Fake charities such as the Voter Participation Center, State Voices, and the Voter Registration Project siphon tens of millions of dollars every year from billionaires and their charitable foundations to…
by Parker Thayer on October 3, 2022

Labor Watch
The Big Labor–Big Green Alliance in One Provision
If the “labor conservatives” were Captain Ahab from the classic novel Moby-Dick, their White Whale would be a divorce between institutional organized labor and the environmentalist movement, which they reasonably…
by Michael Watson on October 18, 2021

Organization Trends
LUCHA’s Deep Ties to the Left
Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) has ties to deep-pocketed organizations in Washington, DC, that run far deeper than Soros’s funding and extend back a decade. LUCHA was formerly…
by Parker Thayer on October 13, 2021

Organization Trends
Action NC: The New Doses-to-Door Vaccine Salesman
Action NC is a left-leaning nonprofit that is helping President Joseph Biden vaccinate North Carolina. What began as door-to-door outreach and education on the COVID-19 vaccine has turned into a…
by Victoria Ydens on August 9, 2021

Organization Trends
Corrupt Project VOTE Shuts Down
As CRC Senior Vice President Matthew Vadum reports, Project VOTE—the voter mobilization wing of the defunct community-organizing behemoth ACORN—is now no more. The group, which Barack Obama worked for…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 31, 2017

Deception & Misdirection
DNC Chairman Tom Perez and the Working Families Party: A Likely Partnership
Last week, the New Jersey Working Families Alliance sponsored an event branded as the “We Build the Resistance Rally,” which featured several prominent Democratic Party officials and which…
by Kameron González on April 3, 2017

Organization Trends
Black Lives Matter
This article is part of the Organization Trends series. At the time of this writing, prosecutors had just dropped charges against the last three of six police…
by James Simpson on September 21, 2016

2016 Conventions
Another atrocious anti-voter ID ruling
CLEVELAND — Another day, another terrible court ruling undermining honest elections. The ruling from the Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals struck down part of a common sense…
by Matthew Vadum on July 20, 2016

Monthly Notes, Organization Trends
Briefly Noted, July 2016: Get out the vote efforts and political correctness on campus
"Briefly Noted" is part of Organization Trends. For the full PDF, click here. The Center for Popular Democracy and its 501(c)(4) so-called “dark money” arm, the Center for Popular…
by Matthew Vadum on July 18, 2016

Foundation Watch
Partisan Donors Hiding Under Charity’s Banner
See article PDF in Foundation Watch. Few Americans realize it is legal for foundations to fund, and public charities to conduct, voter registration and “get out the vote” drives.  The…
by Tom Johnson on October 19, 2015