Author: Gabe Kaminsky

The head of a left-wing dark money group that the GOP has taken aim at in recent years over its efforts to pack the Supreme Court is slated to step down this fall, he announced on Thursday. Demand Justice, which as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization does not have to disclose its donors, has established itself…

EXCLUSIVE — A conservative group is expanding on its prior ethics complaint against “Squad” member Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) over her latest campaign payments to her husband, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. Bush in March faced ethics complaints from the right-leaning watchdog Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust and Committee to Defeat…

EXCLUSIVE — A Supreme Court advocacy group alleging ethics violations among justices including Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito likely failed to disclose its own apparent lobbying in violation of federal law, according to experts. Fix the Court, a charity that used to be a project of the New Venture Fund, an influential nonprofit group that…

EXCLUSIVE — Former Texas Republican Rep. Mayra Flores hauled in more donations in the two weeks since her campaign launch than her opponent, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), did during the whole second quarter of this year, according to the Flores campaign. Flores, who won a 2022 special election to represent the 34th Congressional District in…

EXCLUSIVE — Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy admitted he made false claims about his voting history after the Washington Examiner confronted the 2024 Republican contender with state election records. Ramaswamy notably asserted in two interviews released on June 30 and July 12 that he did not vote until 2020, when he backed former President Donald Trump…

Left-wing billionaire George Soros joined his son Alex Soros in steering maximum campaign donations to Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who has recently come under fire from Democrats over her anti-Israel rhetoric, second quarter filings show. The Soroses contributed $6,600 each on June 29 to the campaign for Jayapal, who said she’s “been fighting to make…

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), a member of the “Squad,” paid her husband thousands of dollars more in campaign funds for private security and other matters during the second quarter of 2023, according to new Federal Election Commission filings. Bush faced a flurry of ethics complaints in March over her campaign’s move to keep paying Cortney…

EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans are re-upping their request for the Biden administration to turn over “unredacted” grant records since at least 2019 to shed light on the government’s funding of groups targeting conservative speech online. Chairman Roger Williams (R-TX) of the Small Business Committee and its Oversight Subcommittee Chairwoman Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) demanded the…

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) hauled in roughly $816,000 in donations through the Democratic fundraising software behemoth ActBlue during the second quarter of 2023 despite becoming an independent late last year, records show. Top Democrats have clashed with Sinema on the heels of the senator leaving the party in December 2022, lamenting Washington’s focus on “party…

Over a dozen candidates seeking the White House or Congress in 2024 are armed with over $51 million in combined war chest cash they gifted or loaned to their campaigns, a Washington Examiner analysis of campaign finance disclosures finds. The presidential or congressional hopefuls included in the analysis have all self-funded their campaigns to the…