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Mike Lindell Fans Push to ‘Bombard’ Supreme Court
“Increasingly restless supporters of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell have a new plan of action: Send the Supreme Court physical copies of the pillow maven’s dubious and unsigned 80-plus page court filing that seeks to overturn the 2020 election,” the Daily Beast reports.
“Late last week and again on Wednesday night, supporters called into Lindell’s evening live streaming program to share that they had “mailed” the pillow executive’s drafted case to the high court.”
Sidney Powell Raised $14 Million Spreading Election Lies
“In the months after President Donald Trump lost the November election, lawyer Sidney Powell raised large sums from donors inspired by her fight to reverse the outcome of the vote,” the Washington Post reports.
“Records reviewed by The Washington Post show that Defending the Republic raised more than $14 million, a sum that reveals the reach and resonance of one of the most visible efforts to fundraise using baseless claims about the 2020 election. Previously unreported records also detail acrimony between Powell and her top lieutenants over how the money — now a focus of inquiries by federal prosecutors and Congress — was being handled.”
28 Elected Officials Have Ties to the Oath Keepers
“Over the past dozen years, at least 28 people who currently hold elected office joined or financially supported the Oath Keepers, the extremist group that figured prominently in the violent Jan. 6 storming of the US Capitol,” BuzzFeed News reports.
Koch Network Spends Big Opposing Biden Agenda
“The political network backed by billionaire Charles Koch spent a record amount of money directly lobbying Congress, with a focus on opposing crucial elements of President Joe Biden’s agenda while supporting some bills backed by Democratic lawmakers,” CNBC reports.
“One of the network’s lobbying targets this year has been moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).
Moderate Think Tank Warns Democrats
A new memo from Third Way, the centrist think tank, warns Democrats that without a deal on President Biden’s agenda the party will lose their congressional majority: “If they don’t, our Democratic majority will reap a whirlwind of political destruction.”
“We narrowly avoided a second term of the Trump presidency by uniting Democrats under a very big tent. Debates inside that tent are healthy, but now it’s time to prove that Democrats can govern. That means moderates and progressives must reach a deal to mutually assure success.”
Also interesting is that the group admits the two bills won’t be separated: “The fate of the bipartisan infrastructure bill is now affixed to the Build Back Better reconciliation package, despite lines drawn in the sand by some moderates.”
Backer of Jan. 6 Rally Gave to GOP Attorneys General
“A wealthy Trump donor who helped finance the rally in Washington on Jan. 6 also gave $150,000 to the nonprofit arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association,” the Washington Post reports.
“On Dec. 29, Julie Jenkins Fancelli, daughter of the founder of the Publix grocery store chain, gave the previously undisclosed contribution to RAGA’s nonprofit Rule of Law Defense Fund.”
Jeff Flake Seeds New Voting Non-Profit
Former Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican who’s now President Biden’s nominee to be ambassador to Turkey, is funding a nonprofit focused on election processes in his home state of Arizona, Axios reports.
House GOP Pushes Chamber Out of Strategy Sessions
“House Republican leadership has officially broken up with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,” Punchbowl News reports.
“GOP leadership has booted the Chamber from the party’s reconciliation-related coalition strategy calls. These calls between Republicans and their allies outside the Capitol help the leadership mobilize for their priorities and against the Democrats. This move by the leadership essentially says that the Chamber is an outcast in House Republican legislative politics.”
Ex-Trump Aides Launch Campaign Against Biden Agenda
“A new conservative coalition led by former Trump administration advisers plans to launch an up to $10 million campaign attacking President Biden’s economic package as it advances through Congress,” the Washington Post reports.
“Conservative alarm about Biden’s proposed tax hikes — which some nonpartisan estimates have found overwhelmingly target the rich and large corporations — has intensified as they move toward passage. Democrats face a difficult legislative path in holding together virtually all of their members in both the House and Senate to approve a plan to spend approximately $3.5 trillion over 10 years on safety net expansions, education programs, and funding to mitigate climate change.”
Conservative Groups Line Up To Build Tea Party 2.0
“A loose network of conservative groups with ties to major Republican donors and party-aligned think tanks is quietly lending firepower to local activists engaged in culture war fights in schools across the country,” the Associated Press reports.
“While they are drawn by the anger of parents opposed to school policies on racial history or COVID-19 protocols like mask mandates, the groups are often run by political operatives and lawyers standing ready to amplify local disputes.”
“Some see the burst of local organizing on the right as reminiscent of a movement that helped power the GOP takeover of the House 10 years ago.”
Pro-Biden Groups Will Spend $100 Million In August
“An array of progressive and pro-White House groups plans to spend nearly $100 million to promote President Joe Biden’s agenda over the next month to pressure Congress while lawmakers are on their August recess,” the Associated Press reports.
“The push being announced Monday, coupled with a wave of travel by the president’s top surrogates, is meant to promote and secure passage of Biden’s two-track infrastructure plan: a bipartisan package focused on highways, transit and broadband, and a Democrats-only budget reconciliation bill for child care and what the White House calls human infrastructure.”
“The goal, officials said, was to bombard the home districts of members of Congress with ads — both televised and digital — to keep the pressure on to follow through on their votes as well as to underscore much of the agenda’s popularity with the public.”
Pro-Sanders Group Rebrands
The pro-Bernie Sanders group formed by his supporters after the 2016 presidential election, Our Revolution, is rebranding into “pragmatic progressives,” the AP reports.
“The shift reflects a progressive movement that is at a crossroads. Biden won the Democratic nomination last year by offering more centrist alternatives to much of Sanders’ agenda. Since then, progressive candidates have faced a series of electoral disappointments and are contending with anxiety from moderate Democrats worried that the party’s leftward shift could cost them control of Congress during next year’s midterm elections.”
William Regnery Is Dead
“William H. Regnery II, a reclusive heir to a Midwestern textile fortune who bankrolled some of the leading organizations and figures behind the rise of the alt-right and championed efforts to win adherents to a modernized notion of white supremacy, died on July 2,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Regnery rarely granted interviews or spoke in public, and he sought to work behind the scenes, through funding and organizing. He came to his far-right views late in life, at least publicly, saying he had grown disenchanted with the ‘ebullient optimism’ of the Republican Party in the early 1990s.”
Adviser to Pro-Trump Group Also Runs Racist Newsletter
The Informant: “An advisor for the influential conservative youth organization Turning Point USA recently published an essay for subscribers of his personal newsletter that, among other things, said Black people have ‘become socially incompatible with other races’ and ‘American Black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime-ridden mess.'”
“It also said white people aren’t racist but ‘just exhausted’ with Black people. It portrayed post-Civil War America as a 150-year-long ‘experiment’ to see whether Black people could be ‘taken from the jungles of Africa,’ enslaved, and then integrated into a majority-white society. It said that experiment had failed.”
Abrams Voting Rights Group Tops $100 Million
“The voting rights group Stacey Abrams founded after losing the 2018 election to Gov. Brian Kemp, Fair Fight, reported Thursday that it has raised another $6 million in the past five months,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
“That’s more than any candidate running for office in 2022, and puts the group over $100 million raised in the past 2 1/2 years.”
Toyota Ceases Donations to Election Objectors
Toyota will cease donations to Republicans who objected to the certification of President Biden’s electoral college victory, the Detroit News reports.
Earlier today, the Lincoln Project unveiled a TV ad attacking Toyota over its donations.
The Lincoln Project responds to the news: “We’re just getting warmed up.“
Fan Kicked Out of Fenway Park Over Trump Banner
A fan was kicked out of Fenway Park after unfurling a banner on the center field wall that read “Trump Won, Save America,” WMUR reports.
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