Author: Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner

The Democratic Party’s premier fundraising machine is facing an uncertain future amid investigations, staff departures, and political headwinds. ActBlue stands accused by Republicans of illegally collecting money for Democrats during the 2024 election by using deceptive methods. But its brushes with controversy go back further than the last cycle, and its next chapter could be…

Iowa, the second-largest agricultural state in the nation, is mulling legislation that could provide relief to an embattled herbicide manufacturer by providing it with limited legal protections. Lining up to oppose the bill is an army of lobbyists working for environmental groups linked to China, a country that stands to gain if that farm supply…

Every year, China’s elite send their children to the United States to attend university. America’s publicly supported institutions then provide those Chinese students with high-level technical skills — skills those international students sometimes take home to serve corporations working to actualize the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda. This plays out each academic cycle, to little fanfare.…

Hours after his 2021 inauguration, President Joe Biden signed his executive order on “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” Until the ascent of the second Trump administration, federal bureaucrats used this order to force grant applicants to pledge support for diversity, equity, and inclusion practices — even for projects…

In October 2024, a right-of-center watchdog organization called Americans for Public Trust released a bombshell report claiming that foreigners may have dumped tens of millions of dollars into ballot initiative campaigns ahead of November’s election. Since then, a coalition of right-of-center advocacy groups has worked with grassroots activists and state legislators to block foreign entities…

At least eight American firms disclosed lobbying agreements with companies fully or partially owned by Chinese entities between March and April, a significant uptick from prior months, as President Donald Trump escalated a trade war with China, according to a Washington Examiner review of congressional and Department of Justice records. The China-linked entities identified by…

During President Joe Biden’s four years in office, his administration approved roughly $600 million in grants with descriptions containing the words “men who have sex with men,” according to a Washington Examiner review of federal grant records. These grants largely funded research and direct public interventions intended to address the spread of diseases associated with…

Entities that the U.S. government has designated as arms of the Chinese military freely sell their goods through Amazon’s sprawling online marketplace, both directly and through third-party vendors. Since 2020, the Department of Defense has published an annual list of firms classified as “Chinese military companies.” The list documents corporations that are “directly or indirectly…

Harvard University found itself at the center of the Trump administration’s push to influence higher education after refusing to accept the White House’s terms for federal grant funding on Monday. Now, facing a $2 billion funding freeze, Harvard must look elsewhere to pick up the slack or be forced to make substantial cuts to its…

EXCLUSIVE — Following a Washington Examiner report, the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into the Biden administration’s partnership with a Chinese Communist Party-linked nonprofit organization that helped manage land adjacent to military sites, according to a letter sent to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday. The investigation came after the Washington Examiner found that…