Author: Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner

A conservative watchdog group is accusing Maryland Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks, a Democrat, of unlawfully using state campaign funds to boost her federal bid. Americans for Public Trust, a Virginia-based nonprofit organization, filed a complaint Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission against Alsobrooks, demanding the agency investigate the candidate’s finances. The FEC, Americans for Public…

Republican senators are pressing the IRS to coordinate with law enforcement agencies on investigating a nonprofit news outlet — telling the agency it should revoke the website’s tax-exempt status over it previously employing a since-killed Palestinian who held Israelis hostage in Gaza. The little-known outlet, the Palestine Chronicle, is under the spotlight this week after…

EXCLUSIVE — Ex-intelligence officials who baselessly linked Hunter Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop to Russia are the focus of a new GOP resolution in Congress blasting them for allegedly interfering in the 2020 election. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), a member of the House Oversight and the Foreign Affairs Committees, will introduce the resolution Tuesday afternoon, according…

EXCLUSIVE — Patagonia, the outdoor apparel brand with offices across the world, granted tens of thousands of dollars to a group connected to Palestinian terrorism. Now the company says it has launched an internal review into the funding. Through its tax-exempt private foundation in California, Patagonia has sent more than $139,000 since 2016 to Alliance…

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who is on trial for allegedly accepting bribes in exchange for using his powerful role in Congress to benefit three New Jersey businessmen as well as the governments of Qatar and Egypt, has a juicy habit: spending donor money on expensive steaks. Menendez, through his campaign and leadership PAC, has picked…

Herschel Walker, the ex-Republican Georgia Senate candidate in 2022, is sitting on millions of dollars in unspent campaign funds — irking Peach State Republicans who say Walker should dish out cash to help the GOP win this November. Walker, who lost in the Georgia runoff election to Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), reported in an April…

EXCLUSIVE — A left-wing diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancy that has drawn the ire of Republican lawmakers seems to have falsely listed the federal government as a “client,” with one government agency flat-out denying ever working with the firm. Janice Gassam Asare, who wrote a viral October op-ed in Forbes titled “3 Ways To Transform…

A wealthy President Joe Biden nominee for a key transportation board has double-dipped as a Biden campaign donor and bundler, Federal Election Commission records show. The president tapped Samuel Slater in 2021 to serve on the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, a body overseeing the Ronald Reagan Washington National and Dulles International airports in Virginia, though…

One of the principal grantmakers steering the wealth of the Rockefeller family holds major oil and gas industry investments despite the deep-pocketed foundation’s work to promote the green energy agenda, financial disclosures show. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private foundation founded in 1940 by the descendants of billionaire oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, has come…

A key cog in the largest Democratic dark money network in the United States granted major cash to a digital “black politics and culture magazine” justifying and downplaying the recent Hamas-led terrorist attack against Israel, tax forms show. Hammer & Hope, “a project rooted in the power of solidarity” that purports to be “inspired by…