Author: Robert Schmad

Media outlets began circulating news this week that the United States had been added to a “global human rights watchlist” due to President Donald Trump’s policies. What the outlets failed to report, however, is that the group responsible for publishing the watchlist takes millions of dollars from many of Trump’s political adversaries, including the Soros…

The Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze may have inadvertently revealed the identities of anti-authoritarian activists in China, possibly jeopardizing their safety and efficacy, sources who have worked closely with pro-democracy groups in China told the Washington Examiner. Chaos gripped the National Endowment for Democracy in early February when Elon Musk’s Department for Government Efficiency ordered…

Just days before then-President-elect Donald Trump was set to take office, President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency wired $100,000 to an arm of the Chicago Teachers Union to train public school children in environmental advocacy. The payment, which the EPA disbursed to the Chicago Teachers Union Foundation 12 days before Trump’s inauguration, is earmarked to…

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who is expected to attend Friday’s White House Digital Asset Roundtable at the invitation of President Donald Trump, donated roughly $100,000 to Democrats during the 2024 election cycle despite friends claiming Coplan is “apolitical” and his own insistence that Polymarket is “deeply committed to being non-partisan.” Coplan’s popularity with the online…

Two lobbying firms that have made headlines recently for their proximity to President Donald Trump’s inner circle have a history of selling that access to foreigners looking to make money or, in some cases, to alter American policy. Ballard Partners and Mercury Public Affairs, outfits viewed in Washington, D.C., as having some of the closest…

A clique of Democratic donors quietly took control of a sprawling taxpayer-funded nongovernmental organization and, with the assistance of liberal billionaires, influenced foreign journalism to push for feminism, LGBT acceptance, and “environmental justice” in the developing world. The Internews network has long been one of the chief vehicles used by the United States Agency for…

Two groups that receive a significant amount of their funding from left-of-center dark money networks have helped inspire House Republicans to call off public town halls following a string of protests the groups helped to organize. Indivisible and MoveOn both disseminated information to their networks of activists showing them where Republican members of Congress would…

Three elite universities maintain partnerships with a Qatari government-funded media venture that frequently publishes editorial content critical of the United States, a Washington Examiner investigation has found. Doha Debates, a project of the Qatari government-led Qatar Foundation, presents itself as a neutral forum through which “a vanguard of intellectually curious truth-seekers” can “constructively debate differences…

Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) made headlines last week when she and President Donald Trump had a verbal clash over Maine’s refusal to comply with an executive order banning biological males from participating in female athletic programs operated by public schools. Mills’s opposition to the Trump administration’s anti-transgender agenda comes as a powerful network of pro-transgender…

The Department of Defense spends millions of dollars every year on expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in science and healthcare, a Washington Examiner review of public records found. From improving racial equity in prostate cancer treatment to increasing diversity in marine mammal research, the Washington Examiner identified $18.4 million in Pentagon grants aimed at…