A local chapter of Moms for Liberty is breaking away from the national organization after the husband of one of its co-founders was accused of rape, the News-Item reports.

Chirstian Ziegler, Florida’s Republican chairman and husband of Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, was accused of rape by a woman who had previously had a “longstanding consensual three-way sexual relationship” with the Zieglers.

Said the chair of the local Pennsylvania group: “Our values are not aligning with the national organization.”

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“The liberal activist organization MoveOn laid off at least 18 employees this week, in the latest sign of a slowdown in donations from small donors to left-leaning causes and candidates,” the New York Times reports.

A pastor who coordinates “faith-based” outreach for the Philadelphia chapter of Moms for Liberty is a registered sex offender, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

“The parent organization of the Conservative Political Action Conference lost another high-profile board member this week amid mounting criticism of Chairman Matt Schlapp and ballooning legal fees from a sexual misconduct lawsuit against him,” the Washington Post reports.

Project Veritas, the conservative organization founded by James O’Keefe, suspended all operations on Wednesday after another round of layoffs, Mediaite reports.

As the Supreme Court prepared to decide the Citizens United case that designated money as political speech, Ginni Thomas — wife of Justice Clarence Thomas — along with conservative activists quietly filed to create exactly the type of non-profit group that would benefit from the decision, Politico reports.

Thomas also had a rich backer: Harlan Crow, the billionaire who had helped Thomas and her husband in many ways, from funding luxury vacations to picking up tuition payments for their great-nephew.

Tara Palmeri: “Democratic knife-fighter David Brock is going on the offensive again, disseminating opposition research to various news outlets regarding the family members of various congressional Republicans—and not just the committee members who are investigating the president and his son, Hunter Biden.”

Said Brock: “Gloves are off, families are on. We’ve been looking into how the children of those same members may have benefited from their parents’ position. We’re not shy about going after the members.”

“The U.S. Open semifinal between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova was delayed by 50 minutes because of a disruption by environmental activists in the Arthur Ashe Stadium stands on Thursday night,” the AP reports.

“One protester glued his bare feet to the concrete floor.”

The full extent of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s lavish, donor-funded lifestyle was detailed in an internal audit obtained by the Washington Post.

“There was $208,980 worth of luxury black-car travel over a two-year period. There was a $600 haul of bottled water during one hotel stay in San Antonio. There was even a $2,500 set of DJ equipment; O’Keefe dreamed of playing a set at Coachella… and was irritated when his staff couldn’t get him booked at the legendary California music festival.”

“When a group of employees resigned in protest from conservative activist group CPAC last year, the organization’s power couple—Matt Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes—felt it was time for a new beginning,” the Daily Beast reports.

“As part of the reset, the Schlapps turned to a priest to evict satanic spirits from the D.C. offices.”

Daily Beast: “The offer from Schalapp was in the low six figures… But Schlapp’s accuser — Republican strategist Carlton Huffman, who filed the lawsuit against Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, in January — turned it down and countered with a substantially higher sum. Schlapp did not accept the counterproposal.”

“A senior board member of the parent organization behind the prominent Conservative Political Action Conference who resigned on Friday urged an independent investigation into additional allegations of sexual misconduct against Chairman Matt Schlapp,” the Washington Post reports.

“Earlier this year, Schlapp was sued for alleged sexual battery and defamation by a Republican campaign operative who claimed that the CPAC leader groped his crotch during a campaign trip last fall. Schlapp has denied the claim.”

“In addition to that lawsuit, some board members and staffers have been told about other incidents involving Schlapp, 55, and two younger men, multiple people with direct knowledge of the situation said.”

“The vice chair of the Conservative Political Action Coalition has resigned from his longtime position on the organization’s board and is calling for investigations into the group’s top leader and its financial practices, among other issues,” Politico reports.

“Charlie Gerow, an attorney and communications executive who has served on the board of CPAC and its parent organization, the American Conservative Union, for nearly two decades, submitted his letter of resignation on Friday.”

“Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating judicial activist Leonard Leo and his network of nonprofit groups,” Politico reports.

“The scope of the investigation is unclear. But it comes after Politico reported in March that one of Leo’s nonprofits — registered as a charity — paid his for-profit company tens of millions of dollars in the two years since he joined the company.”

“James O’Keefe, the founder and until this past February CEO of the right-wing nonprofit Project Veritas, is currently under investigation by the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office,” The Nation reports.

“While the exact nature of the investigation is not yet public, the timing would suggest that it relates to O’Keefe’s alleged financial improprieties during his tenure as the group’s chairman and CEO.”

“A local Indiana chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national conservative parents organization, apologized on Thursday for quoting Adolf Hitler in a newsletter,” NBC News reports.

Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) plans to launch a grassroots organization to register voters across the country “who are willing to fight for free enterprise,” Axios reports.

“The former CEO of Cold Stone Creamery plans to use his business and political skills – as well as the national donor network he cultivated while running the Republican Governors Association — to build a conservative version of Stacey Abrams’s Fair Fight Action, which addressed voter fraud in Georgia and the South.”

“Ducey wants to build a 50-state organization that focuses on what he views as threats to the free enterprise system, including poor education and high crime in some metropolitan areas.”