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Backgrounder: Charlotte Lozier Institute, the Group at the Center of the Retracted Mifepristone Studies
This week the U.S. Supreme Court is holding an oral argument about access to medication abortion in a case called Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v…
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Ansev Demirhan

January 2024

New Political Hit Job Targeting Wyss Is Tied, Again, to Leonard Leo’s Dark Money Attack Machine
Leo’s CRC Advisors Has Raked in More than $93 Million from Groups Funded via His Network, Including More than $1 Million from the Group at the Center of…
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Lisa Graves

May 2023

True North Research Calls for an Enforceable Code of Conduct for the U.S. Supreme Court
Undisclosed Luxury Gifts from Billionaire Harlan Crow to Justice Clarence Thomas Underscore Need for Reform
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Ansev Demirhan
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Caitlin Mahoney

January 2023

It’s “National School Choice Week,” But Independent Women’s Forum and Voice Push School Privatization Year Round
This week, hundreds of events peddling school privatization are taking place across the United States marking the annual “National School Choice Week…
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Ansev Demirhan
Two Years Later, Boebert Still Appears to Have Been First to Tweet About Pelosi’s Whereabouts During Jan 6 Insurrection
Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) extremism appears to have lost her some popularity. Even with a congressional map that almost any ordinary Republican would…
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Alyssa Bowen
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Evan Vorpahl
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Lisa Graves

November 2022

30 Years of Bad Ideas: The "Independent Women's Forum" Brags about Its Anti-Trans Agenda and Rewards Its Big Funder with an Award at Its…
What started out as Women for Judge Thomas, a group launched thirty years ago to discredit Anita Hill’s accusations of sexual harassment against…
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Ansev Demirhan

August 2022

Backgrounder on Barre Seid, the Extremist Who Made Leonard Leo an Overnight Billionaire in the Trafficking of Dark Money
Why Should One Super Rich Old Guy and His Regressive Ally Have Such a Totally Outsized Role in Our Courts and Our Rights? They Shouldn't.
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Lisa Graves
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July 2022

Meet the Woman Behind the Court Ruling Overturning Roe v. Wade
Erin Hawley–an anti-abortion zealot who is married to controversial insurrectionist Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO)–works for two right wing dark-money…
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Ansev Demirhan
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Alyssa Bowen

June 2022

11 Times the Anti-Choice Fanatics Said the Quiet Part Out Loud and Revealed Their Playbook to Decimate Reproductive Rights
When anti-choice groups are trying to look reasonable, they often try to frame their assault on reproductive rights as a pro-democracy effort to let…
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Julia Peck

April 2022

The World’s First Climate Denial Conference (And 10 Other Ways Koch Has Blocked Climate Action)
True North tallies the ways Charles Koch and his billionaire allies have thwarted our efforts to stop climate change.
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Julia Peck
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Ansev Demirhan
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Evan Vorpahl
Inside the Republican “Parents’ Party” Rebrand: TNR Featured!
In a week full of big news — especially Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic confirmation to the Supreme Court — we wanted to make sure you didn’t…
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Julia Peck

March 2022

Two Unmissable Stories: TNR Exposes Dark Money Behind the Attacks on KBJ’s SCOTUS Confirmation –And Connections to Clarence Thomas
In the chaos of this week of confirmation hearings on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, True North published two deep-dive…
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Julia Peck
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Evan Vorpahl
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Lisa Graves
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