The Texas native is top donor to several statewide Democratic candidates and a major player in super PACs helping James Talarico.

In a stunning revelation, former publisher of Stars and Stripes, Max Lederer, has accused the Pentagon of directly ordering him to dismiss journalists who dared to speak out against what he called a culture of control under the Trump administration. Lederer’s claims surfaced during a CSPAN interview hosted by Military Veterans in Journalism, where he described being instructed to take disciplinary action against reporters for “insubordination.” This insubordination, he elaborated, stemmed from their use of free speech to report the truth.