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David Armiak

@armiak.bsky.social
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Research Director and Investigative Journalist at The Center for Media and Democracy. Anthropologist. Proud father. Music nerd.

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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
MAGA candidate for Wisconsin Governor Tom Tiffany is appearing at a Green Bay event organized by the right-wing American Constitutional Rights Union on Thursday Oct. 8 in Green Bay with none other than Ted Nugent.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor Tom Tiffany is going Nutz Deep in Marshfield for a tavern talk on August 24.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I am presenting a skill-builder session on how to conduct follow the money research at the Network for Public Education conference, Public Schools Build Democracy, Sept. 26–27 near Houston. If you care about the future of public education, join us! networkforpubliceducation.org/2026-nationa...
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Madison friends! Come out to Marcus Point on Sunday for a screening of Steal this story, please! followed by a Q&A with the directors.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The astroturf group Moms for Liberty, a designated hate group by SPLC, is bringing its Glenn Beck party to San Diego in June. I guess they didn’t raise enough money in New York.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Wisconsin's Republican candidate for Governor Rep. Tom Tiffany recently appeared with the @splcenter.org designated hate group Moms for Liberty at the Wisconsin Capitol for "legislative day." Trump gave Tiffany his "Complete and Total Endorsement" last month.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The right-wing extremists Moms for Liberty rented out the entire Ellis Island to celebrate its 5th anniversary with Glenn Beck and the Bartons on May 2.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Bad Bunny had some tough competition for his Super Bowl Halftime show Sunday!
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Mike Pence's group Advancing American Freedom has poached another from Heritage Foundation: Hans von Spakovsky. Spakovsky is a voter suppressionist with a long history of promoting myths of voter fraud. He will be a Senior Legal Fellow in the new Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law at AAF.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk was also a member of the Council for National Policy.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Family Research Council's Tony Perkins is the former president of the Council for National Policy and a senior executive committee member.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who is chairing this meeting, is also CNP.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
SCOOP: The rightwing extremist group Turning Point USA is holding rallies in Ohio at University of Cincinnati and Miami University in December with anti-ESG zealot Vivek Ramaswamy. Recent polls show Ramaswamy in a tight race with Amy Acton for Governor.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Moms for Liberty attempting to rename Pride Month “Parental Rights Month.”
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Ballotpedia’s top known funders are all major funders of right-wing infrastructure. 👇 When you use Ballotpedia, you are not only offering it legitimacy, you are providing it with the Google juice it needs to move higher in search results. Quit Ballotpedia!
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
People often don’t believe me when I tell them that Ballotpedia is a right-wing op. Here is a great example where they promote a Heritage Fdn critique of a SPLC piece that correctly characterizes Alliance Defending Freedom & Jerry Bower as Christian extremists. Sound neutral?
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Walker speaking at the Bradley and Koch-funded CROWE center on campus is about as surprising as the sun rising this morning. Once a shill, always a shill!
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is wrong on so many levels. Fuck Musk.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Koch’s astroturf operation Americans for Prosperity pretending like Libre Initiative isn’t a registered project of itself on X. AFP and Libre Initiative are literally the same org.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
SCOOP: The Leonard Leo-tied group tasked with fighting woke capitalism, Consumers' Research, brought in $8.2 mil in revenue and spent $10 mil in 2023, its latest IRS filing obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
NEW: Tom Jones's group American Accountability Foundation brought in over $1 mil in revenue for the first time in 2023, its latest IRS filing obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. The filing has been published on AFF's Sourcewatch page. www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?ti...
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
SCOOP: The Conservative Partnership Institute gave the first known grant ($795K) to insurrectionist Cleta Mitchell's FAIR Elections Fund in 2023, its latest IRS filing obtained by CMD details. CPI also sent $20K to her Election Integrity Network. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
SCOOP: Russel Vought's Center for Renewing America brought in $4.4 mil in revenue in 2024, according to its latest IRS filing obtained by CMD. Vought is a Project 2025 architect & Trump's nominee to return as director of the Office of Management and Budget. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Heritage's largest grant of $500K was to Heritage Action, which brought in $12.7 mil in revenue & spent $14.3 mil in 2023, according to its latest IRS filing obtained by CMD. Heritage Action again sent cash to Leonard Leo's CRC Advisors, $240K in 2023. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
SCOOP: The Heritage Foundation, architects of Project 2025, brought in $101 mil in revenue, and spent $108 mil in 2023, its latest IRS filing obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy shows. Heritage disclosed net assets of $348 million at the end of 2023. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Michigan SCOOP: U.S. Sen. candidate Dr. Sherry O'Donnell (R) is holding "Michigan’s Faith, Family, and Medical Freedom Conference" in Detroit on Apr 6 & Grand Rapids on Apr 7. Agenda includes: "The assault on our children," "defending religious freedom" & "the threat of the WHO"
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
ALEC SCOOP: The American Legislative Exchange Council is soliciting signatures from its state lawmaker members for a letter to Congress asking it to extend the provisions in the Trump tax cuts of 2017 that will expire at the end of 2025. #ALECExposed
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
U.S. Sen candidate Eric Hovde (R-WI) spoke alongside insurrectionist Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) and Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County, AZ at the Waukesha County Lincoln Day Dinner, CMD has learned. Dannels is an adherent of the rightwing “Constitutional Sheriff” movement.
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David Armiak @armiak.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
The Pro-Trump doctors' Freedom Summit featuring insurrectionists Simone Gold and Mike Flynn is coming up on March 15th in Naples. Anyone going?😷 Recall that Gold and Flynn are both deeply tied to the Council for National Policy.
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