Dear John:

Like you, I am deeply concerned about the millions that Charles Koch and other right-wing dark money funders have spent to bankroll this year’s assaults on Covid-19 safety measures, racial justice, voting rights, and the very soul of American democracy.

CMD has been digging through documents for almost 30 years to bring you the best available information on the millionaires, huge corporations, and front groups fueling disinformation and division. This year, CMD has exposed:

• $20 million in Koch spending to elect insurrectionist Members of Congress.
• $150 million from Koch foundations to influence higher education, the courts, and right-wing policies across the country.
• At least $137 million secretively funneled last year through DonorsTrust—the dark money “ATM” of the Right—to pack the Supreme Court, boost right-wing media, and aid white nationalist groups.

This year, I also testified for CMD in the Senate on “The Big-Money Assault on Our Judiciary,” detailing how dark money groups have spent hundreds of millions to load the federal courts with right-wing idealogues and distort judicial rulings to limit rights most Americans strongly support.

As the President of CMD’s board and its past executive director, I know first-hand how hard the CMD team works day in and day out to dig behind the scenes to expose the many hidden avenues of billionaire influence, so that We the People have the information we need to fight back!

That’s why I’m reaching out to you in these last few hours of 2021 to ask you to support CMD’s prize-winning investigations into dark money influence and corruption before this year ends!

We need your support to help protect our democracy in 2022, when those dark forces are going to shift into overdrive to capture key levers of government.

With dark money front groups spending record amounts of money to suppress the vote, block President Biden’s climate and economic agenda, and spread disinformation to fan the flames of fear and racism, CMD’s work is needed now more than ever!

As Robert Reich has said of CMD, “The first step to winning back our democracy is knowing who has taken it hostage.”

So please help shine a light on dark money influence in 2022 by making your tax-deductible gift to CMD now!

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Together we can make a difference and help win back a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.

With gratitude for all that you are doing to help make our world a better place,

Lisa Graves 
Board President

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