GOP’s biggest donor funneled $20M to nationwide election denial network

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022

GOP’s biggest donor funneled $20M to nationwide election denial network

Stephan: Here is yet more of the overwhelming corruption of the Republican Party. This is what Citizens United has wrought, and why I feel so strongly that we should have publicly funded elections, and it should be a serious felony to pay anyone in public office however such a payment was transacted. The scale of this is amazing and I think it is notable that they don’t bother to hide any of this.

The Republican Party’s single biggest donor in the 2022 midterm election cycle also teamed up with a nationwide network aimed at overturning GOP election losses.

Right-wing megadonor Dick Uihlein funneled tens of millions of dollars to the nonprofit Restoration Action Inc., which hired former Donald Trump campaign official and election conspiracy theorist Gina Swoboda as its executive director, according to a newly uncovered IRS filing shared with The Daily Beast.

“Restoration Action is a hub for election denial, including funding some of the key players pushing election falsehoods in Arizona at the moment,” said Brendan Fischer, deputy executive director of the watchdog group Documented, which obtained and shared the filing. “This is a reminder that there’s big money behind the push to undermine democracy. Through Restoration Action and other entities, an array of groups pushing election conspiracy theories are backed by literally tens of millions of dollars from just one billionaire couple.”

The filing shows […]